Moving

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Sorry blogger, but we're through.

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
(too big to embed)

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.