As you can imagine the filming of a white service with shiny pens and a white background does look better if lit correctly so take this example as something to consider when doing you version of this simple animation technique.

Andy Dodd

This third animation covers the Prescriptions service and during this one I found the cartoons I did on the wipe board insane in some areas. As I got the details a little late to go through them, I had to make this one up on the spot. Booking camera equipment and lighting a wipeboard for this is not as easy as you think.

Andy Dodd

Now this week the animation and the footage was all complete and during this time I had a major crash course in what was possible in the use of the software on my laptop. The footage that was done at the University covers a file format that I cannot use on my laptop and the nightmare of sitting there and waiting for the computer to save the footage again in a format you can use…sigh!

What fun we have with these labour saving device.

Andy Dodd

When I first got this job I was told that it would only take a few minutes. That is the deceptive side of these animations as you may imagine, you have to film it, speed the footage up or down, take a still from it and animate that, making sure it runs in line with the film and then put it back into the footage and create the film again in a format the client can use. I like the style of these as they lend a little to the mystery of animation and the times before digital.

I hope you like them.

Andy Dodd