Found object animation

The aim of this group experiment was to create a slightly longer stop animation using random 3D objects.
Here is an example I found on youtube, that uses wires and pebbles.

For this experiment we picked a small number of objects we found around the room - two left feet, an old radio, a pencil sharpener, some paper. We then created a longer animation that had to be at least 20 seconds long. Overall our animation had approx 240 frames, so took several hours to create. We used a camera and tripod for this stop motion, taking photos as we moved the objects slightly - this way it was easier to keep the camera pointed at the same place, as if we had used a phone camera it would have been difficult - then a group member put the frames together on iMovie. We wanted to have things going in and out of objects - out of the radio, into the pencil sharpener - which was difficult to do without showing our hands in the video.

Overall I think our animation was successful and told some kind of story using the objects. We also decided to include one of the objects going into the iPad as one thing and coming out as another, so we used a drawing app on the iPad to draw out the frames of the 'transformation' to act as a transition, I think it worked quite well, although it could have been neater. In some places our hands are visible moving the objects - mainly the feet, as they were quite heavy so difficult to keep balanced without holding the top. Other than that I think it turned out okay. This technique is very effective, as you can 'bring life' to inanimate objects, however to create longer animation would take up a lot of time.