Final animation

"Reduce oil use please..."

Here's the final animation. The aim of this brief was to create an animation to present the news story. I learnt several techniques such as shadow puppet animation, chalkboard animation, found object experiment animation, sand animation, flip book animation and zeotrope. I also researched some artists including PES and Jan Svankmajer. My aniamtion was influenced by PES and I followed the way how PES used the objects to present stop motion animation. I chose my final idea by researching the ideas of global warming and ice melting.
 I found the a news about a cargo ship accident in New Zealand, Australia and there's resulted in 350-ton oil spill into the ocean which killed thousand of sea birds including some of the native blue penguins. However, a yarn store asked people to sew knit sweaters for the small animals.The message behind my animation was to remind people to reduce oil use and to be environment friendly.
 For my found objects animation, I used some knit puppets of penguins and  fishes, a ship which made by recycle cans and some colourful tissue papers. I also painted 15 pictures for the backgrounds of every scenes form the storyboard. The images that I have used are about the oil spilled in the ocean and the penguins were stained with the oil. The animation presents the emotion and mood of sadness and helpless because of the oil spilled in the ocean and more than thousand of the animation died. 
The things that I could improve for next time are to provide a stable angle during taking the frames for scenes and not produce any shadows inside the scenes. Also i would produce small movements of every frames to make it more fluent. I feel like the techniques of setting up a stable angle for taking frames are very useful and i would like to use it for the next assignment. 
Here's some symbolic images in the work which i think that can remind people to pay attention in the pollution caused and safe the animals.