Combination of two pics

I cut the sequence image of the smoothie and character and placed it on the background ......

Problems with Super Strawberry Smoothis Label

After I took pictures of the end of the smoothie commercial, I found that the label was not very viberant I found that the camera was making all the pictures very dull and not actually showing the true colour of the images instead it was adding tints of red ....

I had to re-write the name of the label in each end image as it was not very clear within the image as you can see below

The text has been re-written on the label on the label below

Another test run

The door opening effect

This is the effect I will be using for the door opening in stages

Test Run

nearly finishing

Thinking of adding new scene

I was thinking it would be nice to see the military army to splay with the straw just pass it along to one another but not sure if it will fit into the 30 second slot tooks some pics just to see what it would look like

Out Side Shots

This was my first attempted of taking the end of sequence shots, but as you can see I had to wait for a brighter day.....

SUPER STRAWBERRY SMOOTHIE LABEL

These are my final Super Smoothie labels

Super Strawberry Smoothie test

This is a test shot for my commercial I am currently trying to get the character movements perfect

final character

This my final character who will turn from 2D into this 3D character full of nutrition and definition

Military March

This is the Military of the Super Strawberry Smoothie this is their marching walk cycle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHwOhVrVxiU

Photo colour problem

The pictures I took came out like the ones below, I had to manually fix the colour within Photoshop which was quite a long process.



Unseen Footage

The Super Strawberry Men

This is the Super Strawberry Smoothie Military army there military mark is the blue cuffs on their arms. The one without of the blue arm cuff and the flute in his hand is the Pipe Piper  

Further Research

Today as I was not getting the fundamental principles of stop motion I decided to stop and do a bit more research below is the questions I am asking myself:

What is stop motion?

What are the basic principles to stop-motion?

The physical laws

Timing

Acceleration and Deceleration

Arcs

Acting

Staging

Poses

A pose or an action exaggeration

Anticipation

Secondary action

Power centres

The best tutorials I have seen so far that have explained and answered my question thoroughly are the tutorials below amazing a must watch tutorial part 1 and part2.

I will use these tutorials as my bible for principles of stop-motion

Principles of animation (stop motion) Part I

By Labudinera

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaLTy5KMMaw&feature=player_embedded

Principles of animation (stop motion) Part II

By Labudinera

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXmtHQoDzfc&feature=related

The Pipe piper of Super Strawberry Smoothie

This is the pipe piper of the Super Strawberry Smoothie everytime there is a malnutritioned case he is there with his flute...

Once he blows on his flute the pipe piper crew come running to save people of their kingdom by pumping the smoothie into the malnutritioned character.

NEW AND IMPROVED CHARACTERS

To day I have decided to create some new characters.... I found it to be quite difficult to place arms on fresh strawberries as it keeps on slipping off. I had a real hard time trying to place the legs on the fresh strawberries but found that the body kept falling off.

Taking a long hard look I decided to buy some straws and some plasticine and to create my own characters this is what I came up with....

Now I am going to write a character description of each of my characters....

My Rig for my 2D Character

This is the rig I have created for the 2D character, as paper is very thin I had to create a rig so that I was able to get the character to walk, stand and move...