Term Paper 3 Outline: Special Effects in Animation and Live-Action

For the Third Term Paper I will be comparing the collapsing bridge scenes in the movies Final Destination 3 and Monsters vs Aliens. 

Final Destination 3: 

- Cause: weak foundation and sheer coincidence

- Practical effects and VFX mixed together

- The way it breaks apart compared to real bridges 

- Bridge's cables holds up a section

- Cables also break under the weight of the bridge
- Bridge sways believably 

Monsters vs. Aliens:

- Cause: Giant Alien Robot

- 3D Animation

- Constant motion of the bridge should have caused it to collapse further

- Weight being pushed to one side of the bridge should have cause it to collapse

- Bridge sways believably

Conclusion: 

Some aspects of both films are correct in terms of the bridges breaking apart, I will compare the differences in both to a real life bridge collapsing and show what they got wrong and what they got right! 

Stop Motion Character Animation

This is our stop motion animation! It is about a little octopus who lost his hat in the wind and chases it but a bigger octopus takes it. The little octopus is sad but the big octopus comes back to return the little octopus his hat back!

Leslie animated little octopus, Michelle animated hat, and I animated the big octopus and was in charge of cinematography! We all made the set and it was filmed in Leslie's apartment!