Short animation – Hugo
I made a short animation using stills from the movie Hugo. On the first image I took the still from the movie and placed a layer of tracing paper over the top and drew Hugo with graphite. For the second image I used the same process except I replaced Hugo with the director of the movie, Martin Scorsese. The image that I used for the director was another still from the movie, since he appeared in the film for a scene. In the scene he appeared for a couple of seconds, taking a picture of Georges Méliès and his wife in front of their new glass film studio. To create this scene for my animation I used Photoshop to put Martin into the original background of the first image. Next I scanned my drawings and combined them with the stills from the movie. The final animation has thirty seven frames.
The idea to combine the drawn images with the stills from the movie came from something I saw in Disneyworld. In Disney I went to a building called “Walt Disney: One Man’s Dream” in Hollywood studios. The building showed Disney’s life and how he first started creating animations to models of the theme parks. There was one thing on display called a multiplane camera. This camera takes pictures of images from the top, the images are placed at different levels under it horizontally. The images all have different components of one whole image. When you look at them all from the top, they create one image.
This gave me an idea to do the multilayer piece with the Hugo stills. The images on their own are only separate parts, but when you combine all the images they create the one full image.
I made a short animation using stills from the movie Hugo. On the first image I took the still from the movie and placed a layer of tracing paper over the top and drew Hugo with graphite. For the second image I used the same process except I replaced Hugo with the director of the movie, Martin Scorsese. The image that I used for the director was another still from the movie, since he appeared in the film for a scene. In the scene he appeared for a couple of seconds, taking a picture of Georges Méliès and his wife in front of their new glass film studio. To create this scene for my animation I used Photoshop to put Martin into the original background of the first image. Next I scanned my drawings and combined them with the stills from the movie. The final animation has thirty seven frames.
The idea to combine the drawn images with the stills from the movie came from something I saw in Disneyworld. In Disney I went to a building called “Walt Disney: One Man’s Dream” in Hollywood studios. The building showed Disney’s life and how he first started creating animations to models of the theme parks. There was one thing on display called a multiplane camera. This camera takes pictures of images from the top, the images are placed at different levels under it horizontally. The images all have different components of one whole image. When you look at them all from the top, they create one image.
This gave me an idea to do the multilayer piece with the Hugo stills. The images on their own are only separate parts, but when you combine all the images they create the one full image.