Animation Comparison

Dot was created by a Nokia mobile phone and a microscope to magnify the camera. Dot is 9mm, in the making of the clip she had to have 50 replacements and is stuck to a wire so she is able to be changed at every new position easily. The style of animation was stop motion, for every frame they would move the phone along and change the model of Dot to make it look like she was running. They designed the model of Dot on sheets of paper, then using a 3D printer, they printed every position of Dot that was needed. The 3D model is then attached to thin wire and then painted. They created a background, laid out across a table, the camera is mounted above the set which moves below the camera. They use After Effects software to digitally remove any hands or wire. 

Peppa Pig is a 2D hand drawn kids animation. Pepper pig started off with a 3 minute script and storyboard which was pitched to a broadcaster. The original Peppa Pig looked a lot more like George at the time because of size. They decided to include a family along with Peppa because when it was first being created there wasn't a huge range of animations showing family life for families with young children and too appeal to young children. They decided on a family of four; Peppa, George, Mummy Pig and Daddy Pig. They used a computer called 'The Quantel Paintbox' which was a dedicated computer graphics workstation. 

Firstly they start with a script, they then turn each action of the character into a visual image, for each character they design they create a turn around which is the side, front and back image of the character, the animation is very simple as create a episode in a week, the characters only hop and don't walk so there isn't much animation to do. To make different poses for the characters they create a puppet for each so they are able to move body parts and facial features instead of drawing out every expression. The newly created characters are then sent to a lip sync apartment, who bring in the audio and lip sync the characters.