Clouds

Just wanted to add this to my blog because this is what my clouds looked like before i added the camera! ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!! Awfull!

New Way of Looking Evaluation

I found a new way of looking very very difficult at first, i stuck with an idea too soon causing me to get very lost later on in the project. It took me ages to finally find an abstract way of looking at my colour coding (traffic lights)...In the end i thought my film was very successful it showed exactly what i wanted!! It was easy to read my message as i used coloured objects to look industrial ... man made as such light traffic lights! The day before we had to show our films to the rest of the group i only had roughly about 5 seconds of footage and i worked hard throughout the night to create my final piece! In the amber section of my film i decided to use the same footage to show hesitation .... to portray the feeling of how you as a driver or pedestrian would feel as your getting ready to move (should i go .... no not yet ...go? .... not yet). The green was very successful i felt the pase was right and the sound that was recorded as i was filming creates a great beat to connote the adrenaline rush when the lights are on green and the cars go rushing past! I was very pleased with my film but if i were to do it again i would of liked to use different images in the green section and have a broader range to make it even more interesting!!!

Maya Animation ... Cling research ...

Just a quick illustration to help me with my animation ... it shows where the pivot points if you like are and where my word should 'cling' to the other element. Hands and feet ... 'c' and the 'g' will act as them!

Life Drawing...contour drawing

I found that i really enjoyed contour drawings ... this is where you use one contunous line to express what you see...and as we were not allowed to look at the paper you are more focused on what you are seeing! I think this is very important and will help my hopefully progress with my drawings and future work.

I found this contour drawing by a blind person!! I think this is beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love the way the pencil looks like it has never left the page ... if you had drawn this in a normal fashion you would not have created the outlines and patterns around the creases of your hands and detail around the nails! LOVE IT! I would love to create a short animation in this style which i will keep in mind when i get my future briefs.

Life Drawing

I loved our life drawing class last week and i wanted to look further into it and how it could be used to help with our course and preferably animation!

This is an example of someone else's life drawing (no one famous possibly another student) but the reason

i wanted to include it in my blog is the fact that in a way it connotes movement even though each drawing is very different you can almost imagine the character moving around the page!

The one to the right shows a students work that it looking at the gesture and posture of a persons full body and limbs...we did a similar exercise where we had only a minute to draw what we saw and within that minute you have to capture the form and structure of the person! I think it helps to look at reality before you being to animate ... clearly your animation may be over exaggerated but it has been inspired by the real world therefore i think its very important to look carefully and closely at the movement and structure of your chosen character and environment before animating!!

Type ... Eurotrip opening sequence ...

I thought this was a very interesting theme to use as a opening sequence as it follows the safety booklets you would find on an aeroplane ... the type and animation connotes travel which is the theme than runs through out the film!! Type and image in a title sequence give you a short insight into what the film is going to be about! Also in this it takes the safety images and gives them a comical and crude edge to show that the film is upbeat and of the comedy genre! I didn't really realise how much you can read about a film within a title sequence!

Typography ... David Carson

David Carson breaks the rules of using type especially

when kerning is concerned ... i love his use of jumbled text and simple colour schemes .... his work appears fairly simple but looks busy and full of life!

Animation ... Vincent (Tim Burton)

I found this short animation by Tim Burton ... i didn't realise before i found it that he created short animations and was very interesting to watch ... Tim Burtons animation style is very unique and quite dark and creepy!

Typography ... Peek

Also this is exactly what i want the 'e' to do around a 'p' ... this shows the meaning of peek very obviously!

Typography ... Peek

I wanted to add this because it shows again the type of movement i want to represent within my animation it will help me decide how i am going to move my type to make the message clear!

Typography ... Peek

I found this series of pictures of a young child playing peek a boo ... this is exactly what i want to portray within my animation ... young, innocent, shy and very cheeky! And this the the motion i want to show!!

Kinetic Type ...

I found this on YouTube ... there are various different short clips...they have taken a section from different films this one is from 'Superbad' and they have literally just animated text to the script of the film....but they have animated the type to portray the emotion of the characters (by using smaller and larger text to portray anger ect...)

Typography ...

I typed the word typography into google to see what i could find and i found images of people using type to create a picture...i thought they were really interesting and is a different way to use type!

I found this one on deviant art so i couldn't find the name of the person who created it ...

Animation ... Rodger Rabbit 'Tummy Trouble' ...

In animation the majority of movement and reactions of the characters are extremely exaggerated in this animation by Chuck Jones stretch and squash is used alot to over exaggerate facial expressions and reactions! such as sticking out the tongue and also the stretching and squashing of the eyes to portray a shocked expression.

Short Film ... Mathieu Ratthe

I wanted to look at existing short films and came across Lovefield by Mathieu Ratthe the reason i like this is because when it begins you have no idea where it is taking you and you are lead down a path of misconception ... you think one thing because all the traits of a stereotypical horror genre are used such as a black crow ... being in the middle of no where ... blood ... discarded phone and the blood curdling scream of a terrified woman. But the whole story takes a massive turn and the real situation is revealed ... completely unexpected!

Editing ... Jump cuts ...

Jump cuts are constantly used throughout The Ring ... i think jump cuts are used more in horror/thriller genres to add enigma and also some sort of supernatural activity. In this example the jump cuts show Samara moving on the screen of the TV getting closer to the screen i think this is used for creating tension and an unnerving atmosphere since she is moving forward extremely quick!

Editing ... Jump Cuts ...

A Jump Cut is a cut in film editing in which two sequential shots of the same subject are taken from camera positions that vary only slightly. This type of edit causes the subject of the shots to appear to "jump" position in a discontinuous way.

Sequence and Pattern ... Marshalite Traffic Signal ...

This is a Marshalite traffic signal it determines how long a signal has left until it changes e.g... the length of time each colour is showing! I think this is extremely fasinating as it gives me a great insite into the timing and pattern of a traffic light and will help when it comes to the pase and flow of my film.

Colour and Editing ... Tal Rosner ...

Tal Rosner's 'Without you' has inspired my idea for my video ... i love his use of jump cuts and how he uses different lenghts of cuts to create variety and interest to the piece. I also love the use of sound...sounds as if alot of them are natural and the sounds he may have picked up while filming each section so they don't make sence when edited together...obviously i am not going to imitate this video but you will be able to tell where my inspiration came from!

Editing ... Various filming techniques

This is similar to the last video but this one shows you different angles and techniques to use within film such as panning and tracking, low angle shots and over head shots. This was very useful to look at before is started filming my own video and i also have learnt about lots of different techniques i didn't know before! It is only a home made movie but i think it helps me relate to it alot better and it is alot more simple to watch and understand.