ABSTRACT
Like actors, animators communicate through the language of movement. Animators create characters, convey emotions and make audience laugh through the movements, gesture and facial expressions of our characters.For now on, there are some stop-motion animation in the market like, "Robot underground", "King Kong" and "Nightmare Before Christmas" are very successful, so that , I would like to study their technique in making stop motion animation and make it as my special skill animation.
This thesis will focus on stop-motion technique and robot movement to review architecture for the synthesis of realistic and emotionally expressive robotic motion in the characters. Refer back to the others stop-motion animations, the movement of the characters are very good and complete because the directors had apply the principals of animation in every single characters. 12 principals of animation will add into the characters to create a sense of character and presence in a robot. Besides, principal of movement which included: Anticipation, Weight, Momentum, Acceleration and Deceleration will present a suitable and believable movement in an animation.
Movement of the character
(robot) in stop-motion styles will be the one i focus to studies in my thesis.
THESIS ISSUES
The effectiveness of using stop-motion technique skill, it allow us to create 3D animation with clay-look.
KEYWORDS
Stop-motion, robot movement, animation, technique.
AIM
To apply the principals of stop-motion animation and simulate the technique to achieve desired style in 3D animation.
OBJECTIVE
To understand the principals of robot movement in stop motion technique. To experiment the style of clay animation.
HYPOTHESIS
I believe that by using 3D software to do this stop-motion style animation will be similiar with using live shooting technique.
