Short Videos

Footballers

Scooby

Running

Egg Descent

Skater Dog
From the Web

Creative Endings

Traffic Warden Gladiator

This is the third part of the series Traffic Wardens through Time produced by the Seniors during the Autumn term 2006, to try out the facilities of the new animation studio.

The three parts of the series were modelled, animated and filmed by Joe, Mark, Jojo and Ollie. Voice over was done by Joe and Ollie, with Mark directing the recording. Mark selected the backgrounds, did the editing, and added special effects.

The filming was done using the ‘blue screen’ facility in the new animation studio. Figures were modelled solely from plasticine without using metal armatures. The camera used was a low resolution webcam (fortunately we now have a better one!). Backgrounds were superimposed onto the animation using computer software. The same software was used to insert voice and music, and to add special effects.

The scene in the film is set in Roman times. Our traffic warden is caught dreaming of a gladiator fight, but day dreaming has consequences…

right Plastonia Trailer

Golfers

Teacher

Falling Leaf

Water Rockets

Pachelbel
From the Web

Daleks vs Gollum

Unknown Worlds

Exploring Unknown Worlds is the very first animation production by the Kelston Juniors. You will see a series of 3D worlds being explored by especially designed rockets. All have been created from scratch as part of the animation Activity Crew in the autumn of 2005.

Exploring - Batch 2

Animation Activity

The animation activity in Kelston started at the end of 2001 with the short movie The Party featuring a collection of worms threatened by a wicked lizard. It was a 1-minute stop-otion plasticine animation created by a group of juniors over two days. Since then we have improve the stop motion techniques and have introduce computer- generated animations and backgrounds.

Unicorn

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Animation Techniques

The process we use to add computer backgrounds on stop-motion plasticine animations is as follows:

1.- Plasticine animation is film against a uniform backgrown (preferably blue or green, although white also works).

2.- Background of the animation is digitally removed.

3.- A computer background is generated using a graphics software.
 

4.- The computer background is then combined with the plasticine animation to get the final result.

 

To generate the space scenes in Destination: Plastonia we are using Caligari trueSpace 3.2. This graphics software enables us to create a full 3D model of planets, satellites, spaceships, rockets, and even stars and asteroids. Objects can then be moved along selected trajectories, and lights added to simulate lasers and explosions.