Project 2 Process

Project 2 Kinetic Type

With this project I really began to take process seriously. Spent a lot of time in preproduction which ultimately probably too much.



From all this I came up with this style frame.



You can find our test renders at Kevin's blog. We only got the basic foundations in, no details or anything.

Here is one animation I was working on that didn't make it into our last render.

Project 1 Process

Project 1: Emotion Type
15-20 seconds
Animate an adjective using only the word

For this project I honestly really neglected preproduction. It didn't really end up hurting me much, but I never set goals or do extensive research/brainstorming. I began this project by searching for words that I might like to animate by talking with my friends and going through online thesaurus.

The list I came up with was.
impotent
zealous
pusillanimous
irrational
awe
aroused
whimsical
quizzical
lustful
pensive
horny
radiant
From here I picked 3 words to concept. I ended up trying zealous, irrational, and impotent.





I ended up choosing irrational.

First Pass: laying foundation.


Second Pass: adding detail.


Final: final details and sound design
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Overall, a successful project.

Joie de Vivre (1934)

Watch now.

Art Nouveau-mation! Beautiful! This is so brilliant. Why haven't I seen it before now!?
Via Animation Archive

Valkyrie Trailer

Very nice trailer

Seed Time and Harvest (1937)

Random Illustrations

Wow, these are amazing.

Kay Nielsen's Hansel and Gretel

The Rent is Too Damn High

Awesome.

Wario Ad

Very cool ad on youTube.

Tomorrow People Intro

Processing

Art/animation programming language. Written in Java. I need to learn this.

This is pretty cool.

Francoise Hardy

Fallout 3 booklet

This promotional booklet for Fallout 3 is fantastic. Don't know if its great advice for surviving in a post nuclear Armageddon world but great design/illustration/humor.

Cool.

Amazing 15 year old photographer

Wow.

Ralph Mastromonaco

Ralph is one of my classmates in RIT's New Media Design Program. Short of it is that he's awesome and will be a big name in the future. Here's some of his work.





Ralphs videos.

Daft Punk Dancing Girl

Here's a really nice YouTube video I stumbled upon. I thought this was a blast, the double timing gives it alot of fun and lets her move more like a cartoon than a girl. It's some excellent animation reference too and a good concept (dancing to slowed music then speeding it up in post). There's some great timing and some very nice poses in the first 30 seconds (love the first bit and how she comes out of it) but it kinda' drags on and doesn't really bring anything new.

A lot could be done with this concept. Anyway I thought it was cool live action and neat from a character animation perspective.

Great Family Old Photos

Amazing site of photos people have found in their attics.

Aged paper is great

Here's a 40 year old dust jacket I stole from the library's donations bin. I love the subtle things time does to paper. The softness of the letters, the variations in the colors, the unifying texture and color of it.

Explosions make things awesome.

Lightning

Wow.

Mozilla's Next Gen Broser Concept

Aurora (Part 1) from Adaptive Path on Vimeo.

Aurora. Looks fancy. Don't know about the radial button for all functions.

Mr. Lee's Cat Cam

This cat is one good photographer. Some interesting photographic perspectives.

Some things I've learned at the library

Penguin books are always well designed. Including the Pelican series.


In the 60s.


And today.


Chuck Palahniuk books tend to be well designed.





Such awesome book design. Can't find any images of the back or spine which are just as cool. If you can't see, the negative space of the letters is naked chicks. My kinda' design.

Michael Chabon's books are also frequently well designed

levelHead

This is so cool. An interactive puzzle where you navigate a man through a series of rooms by tilting a card board box. Design wise its also really well done too.

Penn and Teller Bullshit! Season 5 Intro

The intro for Penn and Teller's Bullshit (a great show) is pretty nice and a big improvement from their previous intros. Worth a look.

Nice book covers from the library

Worked at the library today, grabbed a couple books with nice covers. Really you'd think that good designs wouldn't be in short supply nowadays but honestly most of the stuff out there is pretty terrible. Generic cut and paste template assembly line crap. These are just a couple of the ones that caught my eye today.

(Oh ignore the stickers. Can't find good pictures online of the covers.)

Kafka by Crumb

Here's an excellent book my dad picked up last November. Kafka, illustrated by R. Crumb and written by Zane Mairowitz, is a biography/tale about Kafka. The writing is great, superbly weaving between fiction and non-fiction, sticking Kafka in his own stories then pulling back for a bit. The real star of this novel, however, is the work of Crumb and the general book design.

Crumb shares many of the demons that Kafka was known to possess and this is clearly evident in the work. Crumbs illustrations are pulsing with neurotic energy, with an outsiders fire. I love his work, and respect his line work immensely.

The book is also very well laid out. The cover and back are both unique and communicative of Kafka. The page design weaves graphic novel conventions with text in very interesting ways.

I highly recommend picking it up or heck, I'll lend it to ya'.


What a great first page.