I am much enjoying this. I am working when i dont realise that I am but tangents are too easy, so I am there instead of there
Rotoscoping Experiment Wednesday, Mar 24 2010
FMP 8:18 pm
Inspired by Latin American Graphic Design, Marion Deuchars and Snack and Drink by Bob Sabiston.
Using a video recorded from my camera, I printed out every 5th or so frame and traced it with pencil using my light box. This came about after trying to create a flip book of the print-outs and the pencil tracings and also pasting these into a book to see if this would work, but these were unsuccessful so could not see what the finished outcome could look like. I complied the scanned images in photoshop and added the finishing touches and audio in After Effects.
I was inspired by the DVD provided by onedotzero’s Motion Blur 2, namely Run Wrake, Jonas Odell, Takagaki Masakatsu’s abstract fine art film style, Sabistan’s Snack and Drink abstract and imaginative rotoscoping, Lobo’s Acid Pig’s Fly Over me’s lino/ pen + ink style. With this, I will continue to come up with more experiments. I am chuffed actually with that basic short that I made, I have managed to do something small, now I will push myself for what I want to be creating, ambition is backkkkkkkkkkk
Further Tests…
FMP Design Proposal and Discourse Review PDFs Thursday, Mar 11 2010
FMP 2:22 am
FMP Experiment #3 Thursday, Mar 4 2010
FMP 2:00 am
ok having made the recording I ‘quickly’ knocked this up to really have a feel of what I would be doing. I didn’t actually do this in one piece in after effects which I need to go back and learn, I estimated it using the quick look tool for the audio, photoshop a lot of back and forth and imovie…
And the whole file (40s) it will not let me upload, no space upgrade for me….
Motion Graphics tests in photoshop Tuesday, Feb 23 2010
FMP 3:39 pm
Tried looking at some Adobe tutorials but went for Photoshop instead. Doing this has allowed me to discover it will not be completely computer based as my skills in this area are lacking and would prefer a different aesthetic than what I could actually achieve doing it in this way.
FMP Illustration Map Thursday, Feb 18 2010
FMP 12:45 am
Looked at Illustration.com, a global hub for illustrator – client pairing. Looked at Kavel Rafferty and Zoe More OFarrell!
FMP Pre-Map for Animation/ Experimental Film Thursday, Feb 18 2010
FMP 12:23 am
Field of study – experimental film/ animation or illustration
Sub field, adjacent field, related field
Introduction to Experimental and Fine-Art Animation Films
Site produced by Stephen X. Arthur and includes links to lots of current animators.
http://mypage.direct.ca/w/writer/FAA.html
Traditional animation
Limited animation • Rotoscoping
Stop-motion
Clay animation (Strata-cut animation) • Cutout animation (Silhouette animation) • Graphic animation • Model animation (Go motion) • Object animation • Pixilation • Puppetoon
Computer animation
2D animation
Flash animation • PowerPoint animation • SVG animation
3D animation
Cel-shaded animation • Crowd simulation • Morph target animation • Motion capture • Non-photorealistic rendering • Skeletal animation
Other methods
Drawn on film animation • Flip book • Inbetweening • Paint-on-glass animation • Pinscreen animation • Pixel art • Sand animation
Research into field of study
ACM Siggraph
ACM SIGGRAPH is dedicated to the generation and dissemination of information on computer graphics and interactive techniques. Probably best known for the annual SIGGRAPH Conference. Links to useful websites related to computer graphics and interactive techniques.
http://www.siggraph.org
International Animated Film Association (ASIFA)
International Association of animation film-makers and other professionals. Containing 3500 members from over 60 countries.
http://asifa.net
National Centre for Computer Animation
The UK’s leading centre for teaching, research and production in digital media. Based at Bournemouth University since 1989.
http://ncca.bournemouth.ac.uk/main/index.html
Knowledge theories and practices that exist in this field of study
Animation Quotes
But the animation has become very good, and I think that a movie is not a book, and a book is not a movie.
Katherine Dunn
Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I’m a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons.
Ralph Bakshi
Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.
Walt Disney
Animation had been done before, but stories were never told.
Marc Davis
Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can’t create it if you don’t have one.
Brad Bird
Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon’s unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
Walt Disney
Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.
Norman McLaren
Key practitioners and theorists
Aardman Animations
Official site for the creators of Wallace and Gromit.
http://www.aardman.com
Animated encounters
Site with good links and information about upcoming and past events in the Animation Industry.
http://www.animated-encounters.org.uk
Animation library
Over 3500 free animations, plus articles, reviews, tutorials, and everything else related to animated graphics.
http://www.animationlibrary.com
Animato
Useful information for animation students, hobbyists, and professionals. Site set up by Jan-Eric Nystrom, a Finnish professional animator.
http://www.sci.fi/~animato
Anime Web Turnpike
Anime and Manga portal site.
http://www.anipike.com
Cartoon Research
Site maintained by Jerry Beck. Very much about cartoons.
http://www.cartoonresearch.com
Disney.com
Official Disney site.
http://disney.go.com
Ifilm – The Internet Movie Guide
Another site full of short films with a separate section for animation shorts.
http://www.ifilm.com
Littleloud.com
Media production company producing websites with excellent animations.
http://www.littleloud.com
Looking at Fine Art Film
Fine Art Animation
FROM: Reprinted from The Technique of Film Animation (Focal Press)
By John Halas and Roger Manvell, 1959
Chapter 15: Experimental, Avant-Garde and Art Films
Blender thing
Intro to fine art film and experimental film
http://mypage.direct.ca/w/writer/FAA.html
A short vision – Peter and Joan Foldes
Night on bald mountain, fantastia
out of the inkwell – max fleischer
Original “A Night on Bald Mountain” by Alexander Alexeieff and Claire Parker
at 1:55
Disinformation “The Analysis of Beauty” demo sequence
On the other hand, the devoted work of the mathematical filmmakers, Robert A. Fairthorne and Brian Salt, in animating diagrams to demonstrate geometrical propositions and other mathematical problems and formulae helped to found a limited but very important branch of mathematical film-making capable of elucidating phenomena hitherto regarded as impossible to demonstrate because they remained mental concepts in the minds of trained mathematicians.
Resonance
FMP Tutorial Research Thursday, Feb 18 2010
FMP 12:22 am
What is a Metaphor – a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money); broadly : figurative language ó compare SIMILE
1. Specific Metaphors that I like and think I could create interesting visuals from, there is lacking a theme…
Thunder: The boss thundered into the room. Anger is hostile weather.
Blizzard: There was a blizzard of activity at the emergency room. (Seemingly erratic movement).
Winter: She entered a spiritual winter. Our spirit has seasons, and may cause us to hibernate.
Weather: His face was weathered by a long, troubled life. Bad events wear the youth from our face.
Grill: The lawyer grilled the witness on the stand. Tough questions create a damaging level of heat that makes physical contact.
Bake: It was a half-baked idea. Ideas progress in edibility, and must be fully baked to be of value. Thought is the heat that develops ideas.
Recipe: A recipe for disaster. A disaster is the finished product of bad ingredients and processes.
Peel: Keep your eyes peeled. Your eyelid is a rind, your eyes are the fruit of vision.
Stir: Stirring up all kinds of emotions. Our emotions settle into levels in our minds, the top level is the most visible.
Tasty: Tasty tidbits of information. The mind has a palate that prefers certain thoughts and information, and in small, easily digested servings.
Food: Food for thought. The mind is hungry, and eats ideas.
Come up: We’ll see if any new job listings come up. Opportunities are sprouts.
Plant: The orator planted ideas in their fertile, young minds. Ideas are seeds from which greater things grow.
Sprout: After the phone call, a smile could be seen sprouting from the edges of his lips. (See above).
Hatch: They hatched a plan to turn Kingston City Hall into a fetid cesspool of corruption. Nobody noticed. A plan is an egg, which, if nurtured, will hatch into an independent being.
Ripe: He allowed the moment to ripen before asking for her hand in marriage. A moment is a fruit which may be picked, perhaps prematurely, and ripen.
Pick: Pick from our wide selection of clothing styles! Shopping is a harvest, and we are consumers of clothes, despite their inedibility.
Sound (hearing)
* The world is listening.
* Her words rang true.
* The words were music to his ears.
* The high note of the evening.
* She thundered into the room.
* An outfit that screams “I am cool!”
Literal manifestations
1. Creating visual manifestations of the meaning as opposed to the metaphor itself; interesting as it requires some effort to decipher the meaning or understand the picture. (i.e. As Matt Stuart does with his photography???) Seems irrelevant in substance but is a different take on language that we ignore and take for granted
2. OR the other way around, an animation which is a visualisation of the metaphor, the descriptor of the metaphor is some kind of narration or text on top of the medium
3. Typographic animation
2. Quotes:
I AM NOW
You are human, and alive; do not waste your life on philosophical piety – live, and live with a passion. The world is not a monastery.
The cause of oversight is destination.
Rules of Flight, The Adventures of a Sci-Phi Pilot
In the great casino of life, DNA is a slot machine.
Life always wins.
Quotes about TV
I wish there was a knob on the TV so you could turn up the intelligence. They got one marked “brightness” but it don’t work, does it? ~Leo Anthony Gallagher
I find television to be very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go in the other room and read a book. ~Groucho Marx
Television: A medium – so called because it is neither rare nor well done. ~Ernie Kovacs
I could have been a doctor, but there were too many good shows on TV. ~Jason Love
If the television craze continues with the present level of programs, we are destined to have a nation of morons. ~Daniel Marsh, 1950
Whenever it’s on it’s like having somebody in my house that I want to get rid of and they won’t leave. I hate the sound of it. All that noise and light coming from a piece of furniture. ~John Waters
Your cable television is experiencing difficulties. Please do not panic. Resist the temptation to read or talk to loved ones. Do not attempt sexual relations, as years of TV radiation have left your genitals withered and useless. ~Matt Groening, The Simpsons
Geoff Rolph -i stopped calling them hangovers and started calling them mornings a long time ago
Geoff Rolph -I am currently eating pure cake frosting…I am not sure how I was ever referred to as a responsible adult.
Why are these interesting? Because they are unfortunately true, applies to most people with a tv set.
Funny Quotes
The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on. – Robert Bloch
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils … – Louis Hector Berlioz
It’s true that we don’t know what we’ve got until we lose it, but it’s also true that we don’t know what we’ve been missing until it arrives.
Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway.
The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think.
When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep — not screaming, like the passengers in his car.
Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil. – Jerry Garcia
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.
3. How language is visually represented/ animations that have used quotes
Be water – kinetic typography
4. My favourite quote – “Your Mum”
Documenting a your mum moment
1: You can’t eat in here, we’ve got mice and I don’t want crumbs attracting them
2: It’s pure butter, it doesn’t have crumbs….
1: It does have crumbs
2: Your Mum has crumbs
1: I’ll fuck you up for that shit
People talking normally
I recorded an 11:59 minute conversation
FMP Tutorial Feedback Thursday, Feb 18 2010
FMP 12:05 am
Told Gareth I wanted to look at metaphors as a base to create an animation or illustration. I couldn’t really articulate what I wanted to do or what a metaphor was…
I wanted to create a literal visualisation of the metaphor.
1. Research loads of specific metaphors
2. look at quotes and the reason they are quotes, research specific quotes
3. research how language can be visually represented, animations based on speeches
4. My favourite quote “Your mum”. Could record people saying this in conversation. Creature comforts is funny because it is a natural conversation between friends juxtaposed onto these animals.
FMP Phase One Ideas Wednesday, Feb 17 2010
FMP 11:53 pm
1. Strengths (technical, intellectual skills)- personal work ,
2. Past successes - Design directions- Illiustration brief, yellow and angry, multiples exercises with Gareth Holt and Matt Galvin, animation brief – Luke and Bean, When I get older animation
3. subject matter- an area, theme, narrative, metaphor -
an animation for a metaphor which is developed into a story (children cartoon, not sure abt that) enjoyed creating animation for existing story/poem.
Making animation for everyday mundane tasks e.g. TV Highlight of the week Harry Hill. The theme of colour, abundance, mass production, things all made one colour.
Translating one sense into another
4. past design problems, briefs, experimental processes – I liek experimenting
5. Revisit older incomplete project work as starting point…
6. its probably gonnabe illustration or animation, more likely, illustration
7. Market/Client – dunno! What sector do I want to go into? JVallée, Blaize Simon
Artists and styles I like
Gareth Holt and Rob Ryan, and Marion Deuchars.
Ghariokwu Lemi and Latin AMercian design style – pencil.
MS Paint.
African wood sculptures
I like manual layering and photoshop colouring in and layering to add to what is already there
Conclusion
Narrative based Experimental film or set of illustrations.
D&AD #25 Open Brief Major Players- Yellow And Angry Monday, Nov 23 2009
D&AD 1:10 am
Yellow And Angry
The ‘Yellow and Angry’ experience is an animation of particle matter reacting to the audio track, shot from four different angles and projected onto four walls in a dark room. For the purposes of this submission, I have created a simulation of what the finished piece would be like.
‘Yellow and Angry’ is an experience based on my findings in colour symbolism; the colour yellow symbolises optimism and happiness but too much results in feelings of anger and annoyance.
Instead of creating purely a visual piece of work, which would create only feelings of bombardment via the eyes, I decided to extend to the other senses to intensify the feeling, by incorporation of sound. The audio track is layering of an actual argument, venting about the stresses incurred by moving back home, my angst at people in general and a bitter poem with accidents and sheer boredom laced over it.
The fact that it is projected onto four walls in a dark room is significant in creating a claustrophobic and overwhelming atmosphere.
