‘Whiteboard Animation’ is simply drawing a series of images on a whiteboard and then taking a still-frame photo of the whiteboard. The image is then altered slightly, and the process is repeated over and over till you’re happy with the outcome of the animation. Each animation was meant to last around 10 seconds, consisting of around 120 still images. This meant each individual image would only be displayed for approximately 0.083 of a second.
The task itself was to get an object (box-shaped) from one side of an object (house-shaped) to the other. Initially it was decided, within the group, to just keep it simple and have a stick figure come from inside the house, pick up the box, take it back through the house, and place it down the other side of the house. This idea was soon forgotten. By the end of the two hours only the box-shaped object had survived the onslaught of our board-marker madness. What had started out as such a simple idea had quickly changed into a short animation with giant meteors, destructive ‘house-swallowing’ earthquake, and flying blob-shaped super heroes.
This form of animation is very simple, relatively easy and so much fun to use. Although longer, more detailed animations would take a great deal longer to do, the final result looks worth it. Our groups’ animation was only 60 images long, which was, when put together, only be around 5 seconds long. Overall I enjoyed myself doing this task and will definitely trying it again in the future!
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