Behind The Scenes - Lego Stop-Motion Attempt
First of all I wanted to do stop-motion animation with Lego but because we already did this in another piece of work, I didn’t want to repeat myself. But before realising I didn’t want to do it – you can see by the photos below that I attempted to do stop-motion animation with Lego, but I soon after decided against it because I had already done a piece but I had no ideas other than stop-motion. Until I realised that we used this software in GSCE called goanimate, so instead of using stop-motion I used goanimate. But the limitations of goanimate meant you could only record for thirty second, otherwise you would have to upgrade and go pro account (which costs money). We made what we could out of the goanimate software, cutting down the soundtrack doing a fade in & out so the song fit with the visuals we created. Because of the limitation of thirty seconds, we had to make the story short. Also the Lego was so troublesome and the Lego characters wouldn’t stand up right, and we had few Lego bricks to build anything significant.
GoAnimate - Music Video
We used goanimate after our failed attempt to do stop-motion animation with Lego. But we had restrictions with this software, because it only allowed us to use thirty seconds before we had to pay for the upgrade pro account. We had to work with what we had – and that’s how this music video animation was produced. It wasn’t exactly what I envisioned but because of the restrictions I had no choice. The animation shows the character starting to recollect how he got there – we see him walking until he gets to the river where he throws the knife symbolically throwing his past away and the evil inside himself. The funny thing about this animation is that we decided to use different funny backgrounds of him walking, because we couldn’t keep on using the same one and they didn’t have many backgrounds images that we visually wanted to display. But the animation just illustrates the character reflecting, getting into trouble with the law, how he got in trouble with the law, and how the pace of the soundtrack reflects the character walking-away from what he identified with.