3pic St0rm: Kristine's entry for Work of Art Challenge #5

As you may remember (especially if you refresh your memory by rereading the rules), this week Work of Art inspired us to create artwork based on a newspaper headline. I selected "EPIC STORM BEARS DOWN" from the 11/9 Anchorage Daily News. Here is my final product:



I spent my challenge time trying to figure out how to do stop motion animation. It was educational... and fairly time consuming!! I was inspired by Bayete's Challenge #4 art project on the TV show. He took a stationary black and white piece of art, and added both color and movement. I think he should have won that challenge!

Getting back to my piece, I knew from the beginning that I wanted to try stop motion animation. It could never be as good as the incredible Jellybean Video, but I liked my epic storm! (incidentally, you can't watch the Jellybean Video without watching the equally fascinating Making Of video!)

My process:

I sketched out a basic storyboard:


Next I attempted some rough sketches:


I then drew my final sketches. I used a thin Sharpie and a drawing pad. What can I say? I've got vast resources. Here are some of my sketches:





If you watched the video, you can probably tell that I didn't implement all of my ideas. I originally wanted to have the water recede, add a snowstorm, and then crush the house with a meteorite... then a flower would grow out of the crater. However, Paint Shop Pro decided to crash around the point where the fish made it halfway across the floodwater. I took that as a sign that I was done.

Oh, but you probably have other questions! How did these little drawings become integrated into the video? How did I add color? And how did I integrate the newspaper into my video? I did the rest on my computer... a bit of picture editing to remove the background, and then I turned to the Anchorage Daily News for the color. I integrated some text, but mostly focused on the amazing photo footage of last week's epic Bering Sea storm. Favorites included a frozen whirlpool, pictures of the storm, and icy waves. I colored my black and white drawings with text and photo mosaics of the storm. Examples:

Note that the photo mosaic behind the main part of the house is that funky frozen whirlpool photo! <3My personal favorite is my Nome Fish. I created the photo mosaic from a picture of people boarding up the Nome Trading Post:When I finished completing the 100+ frames for the video I used Windows Live Movie Maker (yay, it's free!) to turn the stills into a video. The application is geared more toward photo slideshows, but I was able to change the rate to 4 slides per second... good enough for my purposes!

And here is the final still image from the video:


I wonder what we'll get next week! Will I continue my trend of learning new artistic techniques? Stay tuned!!