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!!!

Summary!!

I really enjoyed looking at animation from a different culture!!! I would never of thought to look at Germany especially i take most of my examples from the most obvious to me America and British so it was really exciting to find a huge variety of Animation and moving image from a completely different country! I found like in many other countries that the animation differs depending on the time is was created ... as society and popular culture changes through out generations! I found some animations that used techniques i know a bit about and some that i never even thought of such as Lotte Reiniger silhouette animations (they remind me a lot of shadow puppets and i didn't know many animations that use that technique). The older animations are fairly simple i found and experiment more with colour more than image such as Oskar Fischinger's scratch films which i love!!! I love the sophisticated look and the fact that you wouldn't think of it as an animation but its so simple and effective! And the sound that accompanies it makes it so satisfying to watch...more thought has gone into it than you think!! Then later on animation developed a bit more into stop motion an example of this is 'Balance'...this reminds me a lot of Tim Burton's work as the figures used are extremely elongated, thin and slightly creepy. I am going to continue looking throughout the summer at more animations from Germany and from other countries also to broaden my knowledge to the world of Animation!!!!!!'

New Ways of Looking ... Evaluation ...

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!