Special Effects in Animation and Live-Action

My first two term paper scores were both above 80; I will not be writing a third term paper.

Outline of the Third Term Paper

Introduction

Special Effects in Animation and Live-Action

Thesis: Compare the fire effects in the animated show Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood and  Fantastic Four (2005) to how fire works in real life.

1. Background information on Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
2. Give context on the scene (Colonel Mustang burning Lust)
3. How the fire effect looks in the animation vs reality (Too fast, very stylized)
4. Discuss how the effect was successful or not.

1. Background information on Fantastic Four (2005.)
2. Give context on the scene (Johnny Storm engulfs his arm in fire.)
3. How the fire effects looks in the animation vs reality
4. Discuss how the effect was successful or not.

1. Compare the fires. Were they successful in regards to their respective styles?

Conclusion

Special effects in animated films and live-action are done differently -- and may even look different -- but they should look and feel like they belong to that world.

Stop-Motion Character Animation

For this assignment, I worked with my classmate Samantha Healy. We took a DVD, made it go into a toaster oven, and transform into a bagel. We both animated and set-up the layout of the scene. We used a stopmotion app on Samantha's phone to take frames of the animation. Afterwards, we exported it onto my laptop, and put it together in After Effects. I used Photoshop to edit the images, removing unwanted things that somehow made its way into our scene.

Here's the bagel attached to a shot glass we used to hold it up, as we animated it jumping up and down.

Here's an unedited photo. My hand accidentally got into the shot, and the bagel is attached to the shot glass.

Here's the edited photo. I took out my hand and the shot glass.