In our first workshop for this second rotation, we needed to have made a stop motion animation sequence of three shapes transforming into one another. I was with Clara (Chen) and Rea (Bremer), and I needed to have a circle morph into a square as the last section. My idea was to have the circle fall over, trimming the edges that were touching the table whilst it went to stand up, until it became a square. The x is there to show the position of the shape more easily.

The frames above are in order from left to right, top to bottom. I also realised that the square at the ‘end’ was gonna be smaller due to edges being trimmed, as mentioned before. The last three squares cut out are for when it expands back to the original shape, hopefully looping back to the first frame (Rea’s section).

This was our final animation. Unfortunately, it didn’t end up looping smoothly like we had planned due to changes we made to Clara’s section. We also made changes to mine, where instead of the shape rotating (after two sides are trimmed, so that it can trim the remaining two sides), it would just have the two curved sides shrink into straight lines before expanding into the square’s original size. This set of changes was due to time constraints.

In the exported video, there’s also frames where you can see our hands. We’re not sure why or how, as the preview in Dragonframe didn’t show this. It may have been due to wrong camera settings — perhaps shutter speed — but we never figured out how to fix it.