Joshua V's Blog

This year's ILT was super-heroes. One of our tasks was to create a stop-motion project. Levi and I were together, for we were creating it in pairs. The first step was to create your filming background. Without it, the Greenscreen app wouldn't be able to put in a background. The base had to be black, and the background green or blue. Then, Levi and I had to create our character with Plasticine. We named our character Super Surfer, who's powers were breathing underwater and being able to fly on his surfboard. Super Surfers logo was a wave curling over two s's, which stood for Super Surfer. Our villain, Board Bogey, was made out of Lego, and his power was summoning tsunamis. The next (and one of the most tiring) step was to film using Icananimate. We would take one photograph, and then move our character a little bit, and then take another photograph and so on. This takes a long time, especially when you take over one hundred photographs. Eventually, when Levi and