tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14361958101022177852011-04-21T20:34:05.307-07:00.Animation & Games Design.M.Hussainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04395970290505530414noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1436195810102217785.post-59204242716533773112011-02-16T07:49:00.000-08:002011-03-21T06:53:07.982-07:002011-03-21T06:53:07.982-07:00Stop-motion using a script<div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><i> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">[PLANNING]</span></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">After reading through the three different scripts we decided to go for screen play number 2. Once i read the script i started to dissect the script by highlighting two seperate parts, one regarding characters/expressions and the other on setting/place. This would make it easier to create our sets/characters when referring to the script.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">After seperating the script we decided to split the group into two to take on seperate parts and bring the formation of the script together like that. Me and Ellen decided to take on the role of storyboarding and creating the sets/environments, while the remaining three members would create the characters. When i created my storyboard I vaguely looked into angles and lighting, as i thought it would be more ideal to get the visual structure out there first rather than taking the time up to get the right angles and lighting. For the setting I used visual references to get an idea. There are four different settings mentioned in the script:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> 1. Outside of the base is mentioned as a <i>mountainous clearing</i> with a <i>small shack</i>, <i>surrounding forests</i> and <i>industrial equipment</i>:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">2.</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> <i>Lift shaft </i></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">that goes down to the base:</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">3. </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Underground</span> <i>lab base</i>:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZxDLt1qaCRk/TWOk2C8CfTI/AAAAAAAAAGo/ejuior5JPNk/s1600/lab.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="224" j6="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZxDLt1qaCRk/TWOk2C8CfTI/AAAAAAAAAGo/ejuior5JPNk/s320/lab.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">When we went to the wood workshop, we saw a lot of industrial looking equipment which we thought would be good for our lab set to look like in a similar way.</span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times;"><br />
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</tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Fantastic Mr.Fox has a lot of scenes which involves underground themes. I felt that it would be relevant to our work, in the screen shot you can see a mountainous clearing which we could use as inspiration.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The yetis from 'Zelda Twilight Princess' are inspirational and we can use them in reference to creating our own characters. We also decided to change the script a little, by using three yeti characters instead of a whole group of yetis. The three yeti's would be a family reunited again; the mother, the child and the yeti which is the father released from the lab. We also would show the yetis hug at the end to show them reunited and show it in the similair style in which its protrayed in the game, with hearts 'popping' out.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
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</tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">These were our plans on how to create the various sets. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">These are some scenes of us acting, this helped us understand and give us an idea of what we got to animate when the time comes, it gives us a reference when using our armatures. It also gives us an insight to camera angles.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">[PRODUCTION]</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><u>Mountainous scene (long shot)</u></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-JvrYUinlNj4/TW99wJ1ePoI/AAAAAAAAAHM/HbjxM063524/s1600/Untitled-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="91" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-JvrYUinlNj4/TW99wJ1ePoI/AAAAAAAAAHM/HbjxM063524/s400/Untitled-1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">This was going to be the background for the long shot scene. I painted the background to make it look like a mountainous clearing, to help convey perspective and give atmosphere to our work. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">This is the production of the mountainous clearing. I started of by a wooden piece which i cut into two, using a saw. The top panel i painted into a landscape design. While the botton base was going to hold the shack and the trees. I first applied mudrock into a shape of a rocky mountain to make it blend in with the background, I then applied a lick of brown paint onto the mudrock once it had dried. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">To create the trees i had got sponges with two different textures to give a variation to the way the trees look. The rough textured side of the sponge had a dull dark green colour which gave a natural tree-like colour, but the softer side had a yellow tone. I spray painted the yellow ones using a vibrant green once i attached the sponges to little pieces of wooden stick's using adhesive glue. This was quite an effective method for creating little trees. Finally we created a miniature shack and placed the odd screws and bolts around it to give the feel of industrial equipment, and also spread damp sand to give an earthy texture which worked quite well. We then stuck the two pieces together, in a 90 degree angle. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><u>Labaratory base</u></span><br />
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</tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">This was the laboratory set which we made. We used panels of wood and stuck them together according to our set plan using wood glue. We left a slot in the middle to put in and take out a panel as room seperation, so we can have more flexibility when we are filming. Once our base was put together we added mudrock in certain parts, such as the corners, this was to give the effect of a rocky underground lab. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">We wanted the place to be quite gloomy, so we painted it a dark grey tone, applying many layers of paint mixed with pva glue, the mudrock we painted a shiny grey to give a dull reflective shine, this gave the effect of a damp/wet lab. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">To give more of a lab atmosphere we added many different elements to give it that feeling, such as skull artifacts sitting on the shelves, a machine with a screen and buttons, pipes going into the ground/walls, a fossil, images of yetis/biological matter, blueprints, maps and glue hanging from the mudrock to give the effect of water dripping. The main components which the scientists would interact with were the table, the chairs, the radio and the ice block.We made the table and chairs by using wooden pieces and attaching equal legs to the certain parts for balance, and then painted over it. The radio was simply a little wooden block which we painted over and added little bits for the buttons. The ice block we created using a coffee jar, which we poured hot melted wax over to give the effect of ice. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Our lift was made by Ellen, she had made the structure by using wooden sticks in a cross hatch effect onto a wooden base, and then covered the surrounding of it by mudrock which was then painted grey. The wooden sticks were painted a shiny grey to represent metal. We also attached a little box at the bottom to represent the actual lift, which was also connected to metal wires for effect. The lift would sit next to our laboratory set when filming.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><u>Shack</u> </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">This was our larger shack which was going to be used for two scenes. It was made with a cardboard base, and over the cardboard base we used little wooden panels to cover it and then painted varnish over it. For the roof we just placed a black plastic cover which folded. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> We used two different parts to convey the forest scenes. When the scientists were running and we did a close up of their feet, we used a patch of grass on a green backdrop. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">When we were filming the yeti scenes we used our other forest, which was made up of real plants stuck on a round board. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">These were some of our tests which helped us decide on what to use on the final film, i.e. better camera angle, better lighting, how to move the armatures etc...</span><br />
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We used the milo motion control camera for one of our scenes, we thought it would be ideal and very effective for the lift scene, where the camera follows the lift shaft down to reveal the laboratory in a twist motion, we thought it worked very well and were very excited to see it being used on our work. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> We felt the best solution for lighting our lab was to have one room a cold blue colour, while the room with the ice has a more eerie purple cold feeling, this gave us the best atmospheric value in terms of lighting and colour. </span><br />
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<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Our animatic consisted of scenes of us acting as well as some scenes of animated tests. We had to create the animatic this way as our characters were not fully developed, nor were our sets, so we used a mix of live action and animated footage. This gave us a good insight to how our animation would potentially run, it also gave us the ability to pinpoint some problems within our original storyboard concept, which led to us changing some scenes. </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">After a gruesome 6 weeks of planning, production, construction, filming, editing, this was our final outcome! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Throughout our journey we had faced many problems, one of many being time. We started of planning and took quite a lot of time planning because we wanted a clear vision on what we were going to make and how we were going to make it. We ended up lagging behind on the production, but we eventually quickly caught up with a lot of time and effort being put in to our sets and characters. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The characters were made by Horvath and Memoona. The yeti's armatures didn't have to be too flexible which made them quite compatible with our filming, but the scientists had to be able to move, stand, sit and balance. The first set of scientists which were made, were quite rigid and did not balance, nor stand very well. This led to the production of our second set of scientists, which was quite a nuisance as it lost time in filming and potentially editing too. The second set of scientists ticked the criteria mentioned above, but as a result of lost time, this led to their visual appearance being affected, and them looking a bit plain. Another problem which this caused was that their facial expressions were limited, and the only way to determine them was by moving the eyebrows and by making a hole in the mouth. The overall ingenuity of the characters was quite successful, especially the yetis which had a good appearance. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">It was mine and Ellen's responsibility to create the various sets. While Ellen concentrated on creating the lift shaft I was creating the mountainous clearing. I had to paint the background in an artistic style of a mountain scenery. The problem i occured when painting this was that the material on the wooden panel was quite smooth and shiny, this led to the acrylic paint not sticking onto the surface, so i had to put on a few layers of paint before i could actually paint the scenic view, which came out effective to an extent. Also when i created the trees for the bottom panel, I was using sponge pieces to stick onto little wooden sticks using adhesive glue, this was weak at times and prevented the sponge from sticking, therefore I i used a glue gun which is a much more stronger substance.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">We had originally planned on filming the forest scene outdoors, but later realised it would be more ideal to create a forest rather than film outdoors due to lighting. We had gathered many plants from outside and stuck them onto a rounded board. When we started filming some of the plants had died, but it wasn't a problem, infact it was a good effect because some of the plants thinned out and we thought there was too much foilage around for the camera to see inside, and this actually aided us. The only nuisance which this caused was when we were filming, little leaves would be in the way of the camera and would distract the attention of the viewer, as it would keep spinning around on a thread, and we would realise after recording half way through, causing us to start again!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">When we were constructing the base of the laboratory we intended to nail the different wooden panels together to create a strong base, but due to lack of nails and help, we had used wood glue instead which worked just as well to keep the base structure secure. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">When we started filming we had problems left right and centre. We had to use a HD camera, as the milo scene was filmed in HD. The problems which occured were; camera would run out of battery, the camera lead wouldn't reach the computer, camera would not turn on, computer running slow. These technical annoyances would take up time and prevent us from filming. This caused a lot of frustration and made me lose interest in stop motion totally, I was enjoying making the sets but when it came to filming i had lost patience. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">We were going to put our theory into practice, everything we planned for came down to this. Things started to look different when we started filming.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The mountainous scene was difficult to line the camera up, because it was small and perspective came into play. Causing us to see unwanted objects in certain areas, we had to zoom in quite a bit to demolish these unwanted objects. If i could create this again i would create it much bigger, especially longer horizontally, so the width of the cameras lens would fit well with the set. </span><br />
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<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">When we started filming the laboratory scenes, the tables one leg had broke, so we had to just balance it out without using glue as we never had any glue. We didn't want to attach the table or the chairs to the set so that we can have flexibility when recording. Also when we had to have the scientist sitting down on the chair it was quite difficult making him stable in that position, as he was quite heavy and did not have enough support to balance him on the chair, so we took a lot of time trying to make him sit down, even if it meant sticking his butt to the chair with blu tack, which we used a lot of when we were filming for various different scenes to keep things in place. The laboratory set was quite good, my only problem with it would be the size, it is quite small, and things looked quite cramped inside, including the characters if i could create it again it would be much bigger. </div><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">To prevent our lighting being changed, we had placed markings on the floor to realign the lights if we had to record a scene using that same lighting the next day. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The scenes were edited by Horvath. I find the editing quite effective, but there is some repetition of the shouting which does make the video seem a little dull. Also there is too much fade in and fade out from the cut scenes which also makes the film seem repetitive. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I really enjoyed making the set, and i find that our stop motion was quite successful even though we had to pick up the pace a little and go through many obstacles. Some of the strongest things about the project are: the milo scene, the laboratory itself is quite effective and looks like an underground lab especially the idea of the middle panel which comes out, this made it easier for us to film, the yeti's were quite nicely constructed, our planning work was quite strong as we didn't stray too far from our original storyboard/ concept, I also enjoyed the scene where the siren goes off I found that quite effective. This stop-motion project has taught me a lot and I, frankly am not really motivated when it comes to stop-motion, it requires too much work and you have to rely on other people for this to come together, and that can be a good thing, but its a bad thing when people don't come in or things don't go according to plan. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The principles we took into consideration when filming were: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">* Anticipation</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">* Follow through and overlapping action</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">* Arcs</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">* Ease in-ease out</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">* Timing</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">* Secondary action</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">* Staging</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">* Straight ahead</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">* Appeal</span><br />
<div align="center"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1436195810102217785-5920424271653377311?l=m-hussain-27.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>M.Hussainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04395970290505530414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1436195810102217785.post-45497142171516723662011-02-12T12:17:00.000-08:002011-02-12T12:22:08.477-08:002011-02-12T12:22:08.477-08:00Critical Study (Narrative Theory)<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I will look at Vladimir Propp's character types in:</span><br />
<h1 class="firstHeading" id="firstHeading" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-weight: normal; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Lion King (1994)</span></h1><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mGYaRcxoKxE/TVbTCMV5BQI/AAAAAAAAAGI/2K_geoPiB1U/s1600/Lionkingcharacters.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="216" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mGYaRcxoKxE/TVbTCMV5BQI/AAAAAAAAAGI/2K_geoPiB1U/s400/Lionkingcharacters.jpg" width="400" /></a><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Hero: [Simba]</b> The main protaganist of the film is Simba, son of King Mufasa and Queen Sarabi. King Mufasa is the ruler of the lands who later dies, leaving Simba full of guilt, this was all due to Scars scheming, whom also makes Simba run away from the land</span><span style="font-size: small;">. When Simba grows up he seeks to accomplish peace in his homeland by overthrowing Scar and returning his rightful ownership of </span><span style="font-size: small;">being the king of the</span><span style="font-size: small;"> land and rescuing his loved one, Nala. </span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Villain: [Scar] </span></b><span style="font-size: small;">The villain of the film is Scar, who is the brother of Mufasa and uncle to Simba. Due to his greed of being king, Simba is the only thing to stand in his way as he is next in line for the throne. Scar causes disruption and deception throughout the lands, leaving Mufasa dead and causing Simba to deal with the guilt of his father's death.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Donor: </span>[Rafiki] </b>Rafiki is like an ancient shaman, providing the community with medicine and spiritual help. He anoints Simba when he was born and blesses him in front of the whole populated land. He returns later on to guide Simba onto the path he was meant to follow. Although he doesn't provide Simba with anything physical, he provides him with guidance and wisdom into making him a King from being a prince. </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Dispatcher: [Nala] </span></b><span style="font-size: small;">Nala became devoted to providing for the pride when Mufasa's death caused Simba to run away. As Scar made the Pride Land's fall into ruin she searched outside of the land in desperation for some help. In effect she stumbled upon Simba, telling him of the state of the land and the corruption of Scar, causing Simba to return to the land and bring back peace. </span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>False Hero: [Scar] </b>Scar is the false hero as he plans with the hyena's discreetly. A traitor amongst the pride, which takes advantage of Mufasa's trust and kindness, which leads to the death of Mufasa killed by his own brother, Scar. </span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Helper(s): [Timon and Pumba] </b>Timon who is a meerkat alongside Pumba who is a warthog create the famous duo of Simba's trusty helpers. When Simba left the land and was lost, he came across Timon and Pumba who nursed him and took him in, showing him their ways of life, </span>Hakuna Matata which means there are no worries. The two represent a typical friendship of one being clever and the other having physical strength. When it came to Simba fighting Scar both of these assets showed their loyalty and value by helping to defeat Scar.<br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Princess: [Nala] </b></span><span style="font-size: small;">Throughout Scar's rule, he attempted to making Nala the queen to his throne, this led to her search outside of the land's, leading her to Simba. As the pride's traditions dictate, one day Simba and Nala would be king and queen together. </span><span style="font-size: small;">Simba eventually defeats the villain Scar leaving the land restored to its former glory and marries Nala </span><span style="font-size: small;">making her the queen</span><span style="font-size: small;"> to his rightful throne.</span><span style="font-size: small;"> Also at the end Rafiki presents Simba and Nala's newborn cub, just as Simba was presented at the beginning of the film. </span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Her Father: </b>Although Nala's father is unknown, the closest thing to represent a carer would be her mother, Sarafina. Her mother isn't shown much, but one of the scenes show her bathing Nala. I don't think there is any one who acts to reward the hero for his effort, except the hero himself taking what is rightfully his. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1436195810102217785-4549714217151672366?l=m-hussain-27.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>M.Hussainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04395970290505530414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1436195810102217785.post-60990271678360230162011-02-04T09:17:00.000-08:002011-02-05T17:15:57.653-08:002011-02-05T17:15:57.653-08:00Armature<div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_p_oldtVPP4E/TUw0dPrZstI/AAAAAAAAAFk/YSTWxsa12LQ/s1600/gfdgfdgfdgfd.bmp" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="195" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_p_oldtVPP4E/TUw0dPrZstI/AAAAAAAAAFk/YSTWxsa12LQ/s400/gfdgfdgfdgfd.bmp" width="400" /></a></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">[ARMATURE FRAME]</span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_p_oldtVPP4E/TUmcUTNoSTI/AAAAAAAAAE0/aC7f82s-9dg/s1600/DSC03969.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_p_oldtVPP4E/TUmcUTNoSTI/AAAAAAAAAE0/aC7f82s-9dg/s320/DSC03969.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">This was my first armature which did not work very well at all. His limbs were too weak and had no support whatsoever. Unfortunately I had to start again, but it taught me what to do right next time. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">This was my first armature and I found it really annoying working with wire, as it was quite fidgety and wouldn't bend the way i wanted it to. I encountered many problems when creating my armature, including having to restart all over. I didn't plan the size of my armature very well either, so it is quite big. I also used plasticine instead of epoxy on the body as an experiment, this made my model quite heavy, which makes it impossible for him to stand, I could solve this problem by using a stronger wire for the limbs or removing some of the plasticine.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Besides the problems I am happy with the armature's appearance, his overall structure and the proportion of the different body parts, especially the hands which i find the most effective. As this was my first armature, it gave me an insight into how to create an armature using only the basic materials, for the next time I would take into consideration the good and bad points from this armature into creating a more successful one. </span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1436195810102217785-6099027167836023016?l=m-hussain-27.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>M.Hussainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04395970290505530414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1436195810102217785.post-52992848545128643222011-02-02T09:57:00.000-08:002011-02-04T09:03:42.059-08:002011-02-04T09:03:42.059-08:00Plasticine head<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Inspirational Sources</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_p_oldtVPP4E/TUwryo-BfQI/AAAAAAAAAFY/KQ24zwsm_6E/s1600/gfgfgfg.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="230" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_p_oldtVPP4E/TUwryo-BfQI/AAAAAAAAAFY/KQ24zwsm_6E/s320/gfgfgfg.bmp" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">My inspiration came from characters of the two games; Metal Gear Solid and Killzone.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">(Left: Pyscho Mantis, Right: Helghast)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> My plasticine head was quite hard to sculpt at first, I had to start over numerous amounts of times until i actually got the hang of it. Once i actually understood how the plasticine works and how to design it the way i wanted it to, the head started to look more like what i wanted it to.</div><br />
<div></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">I chose to have three expressions, shocked, angry and a normal/neutral expression. Due to the nature of my characters looks, it was quite hard to actually convey different expressions because he is wearing a gask mask, leaving me with only a limited amount of facial features to express his emotion. The main features i used to portray his mood was by his eyes and eyebrows, which showed subtle forms of each expression. After i created all three heads I experimented with lighting to set the mood along with each expression and also did further experimentation in photoshop.</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">One of the problems i came across was the different colours of plastacine ended up mixing with each other, leaving the lighter parts looking dirty. To overcome this I should have started off with the lighter colours first and then do the darker ones. Besides the problems, I find that my plastacine heads are quite effective with all three being quite consistent and the way i wanted them to look. </div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br />
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_p_oldtVPP4E/TUNLgBqN6kI/AAAAAAAAACM/GpiTSSqWOXs/s1600/hayao-miyazaki.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="242" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_p_oldtVPP4E/TUNLgBqN6kI/AAAAAAAAACM/GpiTSSqWOXs/s320/hayao-miyazaki.jpg" width="290" /></a><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">I am going to look at the work of Hayao Miyazaki, as I personally enjoy his films and animation genre. I will discuss a little information about Hayao Miyazaki as i feel that it helps to understand him better. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">Hayao Miyazaki is a famous anime artist alongside animator and film director, he has received numerous awards and nominations for his films. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">After graduating in Tokyo he joined </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Toei Animation studio</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;"> as an artist who only created the in-between frames. Slowly rising in the ranks and getting a better understanding of the animation industry throughout the decade, he created his first feature length film </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm56VcqsHoU"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro</span></a><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm56VcqsHoU"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">.</span></a> His second film </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_rtIcyqssA"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind</span></a><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">led<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">to the</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;"> establishment of </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Studio Ghibli in 1985 alongside Isao Takahata. Studio Ghibli was the start of something new for Miyazaki, where he had more control of his work as a producer. Walt Disney also has distribution rights of the movies which Studio Ghibli make. </span></span><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Spirited away follows</span> <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">a 10 year old girls moment in time where she moves houses, and experiences a magical moment of moving from one world to another full of monsters and spiritual beings. Spirited away amongst many other films shows a little girl, </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Chihiro Ogino (10 years old)</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> innocent and child-like. Miyazaki's work shows a trend in similair characters, especially female protaganists. In an interview with Miyazaki the following was asked in matter to female persona's used frequently in his work:</span><br />
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<b></b><i><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">"Why do you always choose a girl as your theme?"</span></b></span></i><br />
<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"><b></b><b>Miyazaki:</b> 'I don't logically plan it that way. When we compare a man in action and a girl in action, I feel girls are more gallant. If a boy is walking with a long stride, I don't think anything particular, but if a girl is walking gallantly, I feel "that's cool." Maybe that's because I'm a man, and women may think it's cool when they see a young man striding. At first, I thought "this is no longer the era of men. This is no longer the era of taigimeibun."[1] But after ten years, I grew tired of saying that. I just say "cause I like women." That has more reality.' </span></i></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">[<cite>Kikan Iichiko</cite>, October 20, 1994. Reprinted in <cite>Shuppatsuten</cite> by Hayao Miyazaki; published by Tokuma Shoten, 1996.]</span></i></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i>[1] Taigimeibun can mean justification, justice, or a big good cause something like "for the human race" --ryo <span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></i></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Quoted from: http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/interviews/heroines.html </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> My Neighbour Totoro is one of many touching films produced by Miyazaki, again a similair plot to that of Spirited away, girl's move houses, connect with nature, discover monsters/spirits in the garden and struggle to come to terms with their mothers illness. Satsuke (10 years old) and Mei (4 years old) are the central focus of the film just as </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Chihiro is of Spirited away.</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> The character's show a resemblance, especially between Chihiro and Mei, as they are both quite fearful and adventurous at the same time. The story's climax usually involves some form of happiness i.e. Mei's mother starting to recover and the growing bravery of the girls to represent that they have overcome their fears. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Miyazaki uses recurring themes and similair character</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">s in his films, one can compare the enviromental messages given in various of his films, from the beauty of the lush natural landscapes or the dramatic urban city set in a fantasy enviroment made to perfection and enough detail to fill the user with awe.</span><br />
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<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I like Miyazaki's work because I enjoy the mood and the atmosphere which he creates in his films. It's something which I can relate to when I was a child and it brings out those memories. Much of his work is really imaginative which brings out the 'wow' factor and the plot's are unique injunction with the art visuals which work brilliantly, it shows the passion which Miyazaki has in his work. You can definately tell what sort of style he has in his work, fantasy elements mixed with epic and dramatic storylines, female protaganists, scenes where characters usually fly, plots which fill the viewer with hope, these are some of the things which make Miyazaki's work his. </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I think his work is good for analysis because I am quite intrigued by his work and passionate about his artistic style. As i wish to become an environment designer within the gaming industry, his work holds high inspirational value for me, and I could learn how to develop a similair style by using Miyazaki's work as inspiration. </div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/ </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">http://io9.com/5353692/the-many-strange-and-beautiful-sci+fi-faces-of-hayao-miyazaki</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">http://www.allmovie.com/artist/167694</span></span></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1436195810102217785-260965847670462996?l=m-hussain-27.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>M.Hussainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04395970290505530414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1436195810102217785.post-6204617457033875682011-01-18T08:41:00.000-08:002011-02-02T15:10:29.923-08:002011-02-02T15:10:29.923-08:00Stop-Motion<div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;">After brainstorming and looking at inspirational videos we as a group decided that our final idea was to create a sandwich and a cup of tea. The storyboard starts with showing an extreme close-up of a clock to show its lunch time followed by a character who is hungry. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">He/she decides to make a sandwich and a cup of tea. We follow him/her through the course of making a sandwich and a cup of tea, using cut scenes and different materials. </span><br />
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</tbody></table></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">We decided on some of the materials to use, so me and Memoona went shopping, while the others looked for some of the things around the university. A lot of the things we got were different objects which had similar aesthetics to represent various different foods and materials.</span><br />
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</tbody></table><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">We planned on using replacement animation throughout, hence why we had three different forms of the bacon, i.e. raw, cooked, and well done.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">Also the cricket ball was to act as the tomato, and we used plasticine to show the slices being cut off.</span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The final video was a success and was what we planned it out to be. </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">We finished the editing in good time and added the credits too. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The only problems we encountered were materials not working to our expectations, so we had to change some of the materials such as the maltesers which were too big, we overcome this problem by using crumbled chocolate buttons instead. We also improved the video as we went along by adding new things which we thought would work well, like the spinning biscuit </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">to represent the momentum of the tea after its been spun. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">As a group we did very well, everybody put in their input to make this a successful stop-motion video. We used pixillation and replacement animation in this video, and found it to work quite effectively. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The principles of animation do change when working with stop motion and live objects</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">, i.e. you cannot use the principle straight ahead action or pose to pose, as that refers to drawing. The principles we used were:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">* Staging</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">* Anticipation</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">* Slow in and slow out</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">* Arcs</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">* Exaggeration</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1436195810102217785-620461745703387568?l=m-hussain-27.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>M.Hussainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04395970290505530414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1436195810102217785.post-4361504760414398022011-01-13T08:04:00.000-08:002011-02-01T06:10:58.869-08:002011-02-01T06:10:58.869-08:00Stickfas animation<div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> [DRUNKEN WALK CYCLE]</span></div><br />
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</span></div><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We decided for our group animation to create battle scenes in the format of the</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> popular game 'Mortal Kombat'. Sticking to the theme of Mortal Kombat we were going to use the battle screen from the game to make it look like someone is playing. To make it more engaging we also decided to use the theme tune and sound effects from the game itself. </span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The final outcome of our video was what we hoped for to an extent. We found some of the problems that we encountered were camera difficulties and computer problems, which caused us to lose time and disruption of a smooth recording, hence why we had to add a pause during the final battle sequence where the screen turns purple, we wanted to show that the screen was paused by adding typography to make it look more effective but due to lack of time we couldn't. Another problem is that the rounds are quite fast, if we had more time we could have added longer fight scenes. </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I think that some of the things which worked really well are; the sounds, the life gauge on the top of the screen, the character profiles at the beginning and the final scene where the hand comes in to destroy the character, this was the first form of pixilation we used. Some of the principles we used were:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span">* Anticipation</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span">*Staging</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span">*Follow through & overlapping action</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span">*Arcs</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span">*Exaggeration</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span">*Secondary action</span></div></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1436195810102217785-436150476041439802?l=m-hussain-27.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>M.Hussainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04395970290505530414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1436195810102217785.post-85113841827311653742010-12-27T16:11:00.000-08:002011-03-06T13:53:56.428-08:002011-03-06T13:53:56.428-08:00Critical Study (Origins/History)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Animation through time</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Animation has come a long way since the beginning of time and not many know of the historic value it holds. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Animation started over 35,000 years ago where paintings on walls of caves depicted animals with more than the ordinary amount of limbs to give the sense of movement or by showing the animal in the actual movement itself i.e running. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Following the cave paintings, humans had started to evolutionise and discover more techniques to create movement in their art. In 1600 BC the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramases II built a temple dedicated to the goddess Isis, in this temple he had created 110 columns or panels in which he had painted the figure of the goddess, in each of the panels he painted the goddess moving progressively with minimal movement, this was the first concept of key frame animation. The effect this had on horsemen was amazement when they rode past. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">In Greece they would decorate pots with figures in different stages of an action, when spinning the pot this would also create the sense of movement. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Thousands of years later in 1640 a German priest and scholar named <a href="http://www.notablebiographies.com/supp/Supplement-Ka-M/Kircher-Athanasius.html">Athonasius Kircher</a> had discovered a method to project drawings onto the wall using a 'Magic Lantern', in relation to this he created his figures on seperate pieces of glass and then placed them into his apparatus which then projected the image onto the wall. He would then in turn move the different glass pieces by using a piece of string, this would create the effect of a moving image like a slideshow.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The magic lantern was something new to people which led to new ideas being generated and one of the many ideas was to use the magic lantern to create scare shows, also known as </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Phantasmagoria. </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">This was a form of theatre where images of ghosts and horrific beings were shown and made to look real. Around that time superstition was heavily involved in peoples lives, and many people could not bear the thought of this, causing the audience paranoia and fright which eventually led a ban to these shows. <br />
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<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">In 1824 Peter Mark Roget had discovered the principle, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistence_of_vision">'persistence of vision'</a>. This gave him an understanding that a humans eyes retain an image for a temporary amount of time (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afterimage">afterimage</a>), hence why our eyes can't see the shift of one frame to another frame in a series of images. </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Roget understood the fundamentals of creating the illusion of movement, which led to the production of various contraptions which gave the sense of movement. One of which is the thaumatrope. This toy was quite popular during the victorian times, the way it works is quite simple its a cardboard with images on both sides attached to two strings, and when the strings are pulled the cardboard spins, causing the two images to merge together. The classic version features a bird and a cage. <br />
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Following the thaumatrope, another contraption which used the principle 'persistence of vision' was the phenakistoscope. This was invented in 1832 by Belgian physcist <a href="http://www.famousbelgians.net/plateau.htm">Joseph Plateau</a>. The device consisted of two disks attached on to a shaft, the first disk has slits around the edges while the rear disk has drawings, when the two are aligned and spun at the relevant speed you have the <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Phenakistoscope_3g07690a.gif">illusion of motion</a>. <br />
The thaumatrope was replaced by the Zoetrope (Wheel of life) in 1867 and was sold as a toy in the USA, it is a similair device to its predecessor. This was an upgraded version of the thaumatrope which consisted of a cylinder with a strip of drawings on the inside of the cylinders surface, when the cylinder was spun you could see the movement of the figure through the open slits. <br />
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The Praxinoscope was then invented in 1877 by a Frenchman called <a href="http://www.victorian-cinema.net/reynaud.htm">Emile Reynaud</a>. He had improved on the previous two devices, and made the praxinoscope feature an inner circle of mirrors rather than the slits to look through, this gave the person looking in the mirrors a clearer, brighter and a more stationary image, unlike the distorted image which the zoetrope would give. He also improved on the inner length of the strip inside, giving a much longer sequence of motion.<br />
Reynaud later upgraded his own device in 1889 by making it project images on to a screen using an even longer roll of pictures, making him the first to show short sequences of animation to large audiences.<br />
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In 1868 the flipper book appeared worldwide. The most simplest and popular device for animating drawings. The device involves holding the book from the edge while the other hand flips the pages, the pages would obviously have illustrations of something moving gradually throughout each page and once the pages flipped, it would result in animation. <br />
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In 1906 James Stuart Blackton and Thomas Edison created the first animation using a combination of photography and drawings. Blackton impressed Edison by his skill of drawing quite fast, while Edison was experimenting with moving pictures he asked Blackton to create a series of drawings. Edison later photographed each of these individual drawings coming upto 3000, he then put them together to create the first animated picture, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGh6maN4l2I">'Humorous Phases of Funny Faces'</a>. The result was an instant hit and created laughter amongst the many audiences. Blackton is now considered as one of the forefathers of American animation.<br />
One year later a french man called <a href="http://lambiek.net/artists/c/cohl_emile.htm">Emile Cohl</a> showed a full animated film in Paris using inspiration from Blackton. He used the same drawing technique of white lines on black paper to achieve the effect of drawing on a black board using chalk, he achieved this by reversing the negative film. The unique point of Cohls animation was the fact that his story was sophisticated and had a plot, it was a tale of a girl, a jealous lover and a policeman. In his animation he gave objects such as lamposts and houses a persona of their own by showing different moods and emotions, this was a mile stone for animation.<br />
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<a href="http://www.comic-art.com/biographies/mccay.htm">Winsor McCay</a>, creator of the popular comic strip 'Little Nemo in Slumberland' recognised animation and started to experiment with it. He used a flipper book to create 4000 drawings of his character, 'Little Nemo' to move, these were later flashed in Hammerstein's Theatre in New York, 1911 and were a big hit. His second experiment with animation was a short film called 'How a Mosquito Operates', the response he received from his audiences was quite enthusiastic, even though the contents of the animation was quite crude. <br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Following his second animation, McCay set the bar higher when he created <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY40DHs9vc4">'Gertie the Dinosaur'</a> in 1914. Gertie's character was unique and new to animation as she gave off emotions, different moods and this for the audience was something new as the character showed a personality and gave them the ability to empathise with the character. Another unique point was the fact that McCay himself performed live in front of the projected animation interacting with the dinosaur and giving Gertie commands to follow, this wowed the audiences as it was a new style of performance called live action/animation. <br />
<div style="text-align: left;">Winsor McCay went on to make many animated films, including the first dramatic cartoon which was also the first animated documentary called <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nN-KdPBhyjc">'The Sinking of Lusitania'</a>, made in 1918. This was a huge step forward in realism and drama as it was based on war propaganda and was the longest animated film so far, consisting of 25,000 drawings and two years of work.</div><div style="text-align: left;">Earl Hurd who was a pioneer in animation invented cel animation in 1914. This was a technique which made it more efficient and less time consuming for an animator by drawing less frames. The cel was an acetate transparent type of sheet which animators could draw on and lay over a still background, this helped animators by using the required frames for one subject to move and another to stay static, rather than re-drawing the static character over and over again which causes a jittery appearance. This was quite an expensive method, and was not used much until later on. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">In the 1920's <a href="http://www.felixthecat.com/history.htm">'Felix the cat'</a> started becoming more popular. He had a comic strip about him and now the character had entered into animation. These short films debuted by Paramount pictures were inventive and did what a camera can't do. The character showed a real personality and slowly emerged from a black and white character with no sound to a character full of colour and sound later on in the 1950's, which audiences worldwide had followed from the beginning and watched the transition.<br />
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The Felix cartoons led to the arrival of Walt Disney's character, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0000630/">Mickey Mouse</a> in 1928. He took his first appearance in <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBgghnQF6E4">'Steamboat Willie'</a>, this was the first ever cartoon synchronised with sound, which was a turning point in the animation industry. <br />
<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0453832/">Ward Kimball</a> had said to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Williams_%28animator%29">Richard Williams</a>: <span style="font-size: small;">"You have no idea of the impact that having these drawings suddenly speak and make noises had on audiences at that time. People went crazy over it."</span><br />
Following Steamboat Willie, Disney created <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h03QBNVwX8Q">'The Skeleton Dance'</a> which was also the first <a href="http://www.disneyshorts.org/miscellaneous/silly.html">Silly Symphony</a>, a term used for a series of short films made by Disney. For the first time action was co-ordinated with proper musical notes, giving a great effect of story telling.<br />
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Finally in 1932 Disney leapt forward by creating the first ever fully coloured cartoon using coloured film, with 'Flowers and Trees'.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Five years after introducing colour, Disney released <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3N-IvGhohvA">'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'</a> in 1937, it was the worlds first fully animated feature-length film, with a running time of 83 minutes. This film raised the level of art in animation, with the drawings being so fluid, the film staggered the audiences with amazement. The film was made in 3 years using cel animation, considering the technology of those times that is an incredibly short space of time for a feature length movie of that quality to be made. This set the foundation and the standard for all movies to come within the animation industry. </div><div style="text-align: left;">The budget intended for the film was $250,000, but rather ended up with spending $1,500,000 (estimate). The financial success was rewarding and sufficent enough to create the 'Golden Age' of animation for Disney, which gave birth to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQzZANZ4R14">Pinocchio</a> (1940), <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22v-1eMIl40">Dumbo</a> (1941), <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLvX-erABqY">Bambi</a> (1942) and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XChxLGnIwCU">Fantasia</a> (1940). </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
Following traditional animation, recent technology called <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-generated_imagery">CGI</a> (Computer-generated imagery) has revolutionised the world of animation. It consists of using computer intelligence to create virtual images and animate them too. The principles of traditional animation are basically the same as CGI, the only difference lies on matter of tools used to generate animation on the chosen platform, that being by hand or by computer. One of the first feature length films to use CGI was Toy story (1995). <br />
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CGI has opened up many new possibilites and pathways for animation, that new things are being discovered just as they were from the beginning of animation. Animation itself plays an important role in media, film, television and the gaming industry as it has opened up many gateways for people to discover since time began i.e. Stop-motion, 2D/3D animation, computer animation, hand-drawn animation, claymation, puppet animation, pixilation, rotoscoping, motion capture and many more. This art form will continue to grow into many new exciting things being discovered for the future and has firmly planted itself into the present ground with its rich history.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Resources:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029583/</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.youtube.com</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://en.wikipedia.org</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://minyos.its.rmit.edu.au/aim/a_notes/anim_history_02.html#</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/animateddogs/animation.html</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://lifestyle.iloveindia.com/lounge/history-of-animation-2221.html</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.notablebiographies.com/</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"> http://www.famousbelgians.net/</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.victorian-cinema.net</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">http://lambiek.net/artists</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.comic-art.com</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.felixthecat.com/</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.imdb.com</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.disneyshorts.org</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Book: 'The Animators Survival Kit' by Richard Williams</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div></div><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">When i hear the sound i can imagine a scientist in his lab, tapping some buttons and then he gets frustrated and starts to bash whatever it is he is trying to achieve causing him to mistakingly create a small explosion. Here is a moodboard for what i imagine the scientist to look like, almost like a slightly mad/crazy one. </span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I felt that the following two video clips were quite relevant to my work, as i had to show keyboard bashing of some sort, these two clips show this well, even though there is a slight exaggeration throughout both of the clips. I could use these videos as reference when I make my animation. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><object height="344" style="background-image: url("http://i3.ytimg.com/vi/jSnij6sRbHA/hqdefault.jpg");" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/jSnij6sRbHA?fs=1&hl=en_GB"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/jSnij6sRbHA?fs=1&hl=en_GB" allowscriptaccess="never" allowfullscreen="true" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="344" width="425"></embed></object></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Dexter's Laboratory shows a theme of working in the lab with some humour involved, therefore i felt that this was quite relevant to my work.</span></div><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I found this animation on youtube and really liked how the explosion happened, and I would like something of similair effect for my animation. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> <b>Image References</b></span><br />
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</div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I felt that too much was happening, and there was too much movement from scene to scene so I cut one of the frames out (second frame).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I found this animatic much more effective.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>[Pencil Test] </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>* </b>Some frames were missing some of the lab components.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">* At the beginning of the animation on the second frame the scientist stops pressing buttons, and it doesnt sync well with the sound so i should extend the second angle shot so it looks like he is pressing buttons.</span><br />
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<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">This was the final outcome for my animation. I felt that my animation was planned the way i wanted it to go, there was only a few alterations from the original plan, such as the extra frame i had to take out. I find that the explosion was one of the strongest points of the animation. </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">My animation is quite constrained, due to my drawing skill. If i could improve the animation in any way i would make the animation more flexible and less constrained as my character looks like a robot with minimal movement and repeated actions of the arm. The only thing that seperates him from a robot is his expressions of the face.</span> <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Another thing i would change is the smoke, I could have researched more into the way smoke moves, the way i drew it is quite constrained and looks more like a tribal pattern, rather than smoke which flows more free in the air. Also i should have been more careful with inking the drawings, as some frames show thicker lines, and some are out of alignment with the previous frames.</span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1436195810102217785-5690160088688710984?l=m-hussain-27.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>M.Hussainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04395970290505530414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1436195810102217785.post-90809429949613123532010-11-12T13:31:00.000-08:002011-03-03T14:57:15.454-08:002011-03-03T14:57:15.454-08:00Critical Study (Animation Industry)<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">Gertie the Dinosaur, 1914</div><div style="text-align: center;"><object height="344" style="background-image: url("http://i2.ytimg.com/vi/UY40DHs9vc4/hqdefault.jpg");" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/UY40DHs9vc4?fs=1&hl=en_GB"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/UY40DHs9vc4?fs=1&hl=en_GB" allowscriptaccess="never" allowfullscreen="true" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="344" width="425"></embed></object><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;">This short film animated by American cartoonist Winsor McCay shows a friendly playful dinosaur called Gertie. This keyframe animation was made in 1914 consisting of thousands of frames on sheets of rice paper. This was McCays third animated film, after the first being 'Little Nemo' made in 1911, and the second animation 'How a Mosquito Operates' in 1912. Gertie the dinosaur was one of its kind in that time, as the character Gertie showed a personality of its own and this was the first film to use keyframe animation. </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Throughout production McCay received help from his neighbour who traced the backgrounds onto rice paper, while McCay did all the drawings of Gertie. 10,000 frames were inked and mounted onto cardboard for flipping through a machine to make sure his animation works. McCay also created techniques, such as cycling which later were used in the animation industry as a standard.</div><div style="text-align: left;">In February 1914 McCay performed alongside Gertie in his vaudeville act in Chicago. This was unique to McCay as he was engaging with the animation he created, he had a whip and would seem in control of Gertie, throughout the film he would ask Gertie to act out certain actions. It would seem that Gertie had its own 'soul' by being playful and expressing his emotions such as curiosity, sadness and playfulness. McCays animation was a huge success and Gertie became one of the first cartoon stars.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">I find it quite amazing as to how McCay created this animation, with crisp lines and the correct form with movement. This work was definately one of its kind at that time and set the foundation for the future for all animations.</div><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Final Fantasy Advent Children is a science fiction film made in 2005. It was directed by Tetsuya Nomura and produced by Yoshinori Kitase along with Shinji Hashimoto. Advent Children was made as a sequel to the highly successful console game </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Final Fantasy 7</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> which was made in 1997.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The film developed by Square Enix and Visual works,</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> consists of computer animated technology using motion capture. The film was released in 2005 in Japan, and a year later in North America and Europe. Advent Children had received positive views, selling over 2.4 million copies worldwide and was awarded best anime feature in the 2007 'American Anime Awards'. The original idea was to make Advent Children a video game sequel to the popular Final Fantasy VII game, but due to limitations from various things and the fact that 'Visual works' is a computer generated company, and not a company who creates games. The creators had no knowledge about making a feature length movie, hence they used their knowledge of the in-game movies to create this film. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">In an interview for Playstation magazine (2003) </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Tetsuya Nomura talks about the production:</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">'First of all, we started off from the project that Visual Works was handling, but they can't make a game on their own. We tried to see if we could make it into a game, but it wasn't possible due to a number of factors. As a result, we decided to stick with the original plan and work on it as a movie production. The development isn't too different from the way we make movies that get used in our games, but our schedule is a bit tight. We need to keep the cost down since it's not a game, but [we still need to] maintain high quality.</span></i></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">' </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>Source: http://www.adventchildren.net/ff7ac/movie/about/interview.php</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The story of Advent Children shows 'Cloud' as the protagonist, following the after effects of a big battle in Final Fantasy VII and how he settles into a depression state, this could be due to many factors, one being due to a disease he caught or because he feels the guilt for losing his friend and the love of his life, his feelings are symbolised by a grey wolf who appears when he thinks about them. Throughout the course of this film, there are many scenes showing battles in an unrealistic manner and the general atmosphere is quite mysterious, as they didn't want to go for a realistic look, rather a balance between realism and unrealistic values. A lot of the scenes used motion capture but a scene which was unable to be done by humans, was done by hand.</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> The production of Advent Children had problems along the way, as getting the characters designed into a 'realistic look' using only the character designs from the Final Fantasy VII game made in 1997, made it quite dificult.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">In an interview for a Japanese Magazine Tetsuya Nomura said the following in response to</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">'</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Looking at the visuals, it’s turning out to be a production with a mysterious atmosphere, with there being what seems to be a fusion between non-realistic and realistic styles.' </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Nemura:<i> 'A fusion you say… well, I guess it might be. With there being a very fine balance that is, in any case, hard to put into words. If it became either more realistic or non-realistic, the present balance would probably be lost. It’s something that’s different also from your usual animation, I guess you could call it a new genre.</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>http://www.adventchildren.net/ff7ac/movie/about/interview2.php</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I found Advent Children very enjoyable with the sense of atmosphere and mood which was conveyed brilliantly. One of the things i enjoy the most is the fact that it is half way between realism and unrealism, setting that sense of mood in that enviroment is quite unique and somewhat new of this modern era.</span></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1436195810102217785-9080942994961312353?l=m-hussain-27.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>M.Hussainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04395970290505530414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1436195810102217785.post-48648796234745874452010-11-03T07:42:00.000-07:002010-11-07T15:36:12.880-08:002010-11-07T15:36:12.880-08:00Anticipation task<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Drawings from reference, looking at the body.</div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">References from: </span><i style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">'Drawing figure movement' (John Corney), 'The body- how to draw' (Jose M.Parramon)</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">This video was quite insightful as it showed both anticipation aswell as squash and stretch, simple and effective. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Found quite an interesting image showing different movements, also shows arcs aswell as movement required within a cycle.</span><br />
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">For my task I am going to keep it simple, so i decided that I will create a stick like figure jumping from one stand to the next, here are some references and research material I looked at, to create similair movements for my animation.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This is the final version of my animation. I could have improved it by using better camera quality, but due to time and lack of equipment at home I had to make use of what I had, which caused bad lighting too. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I also think that I could have paid better attention to the last frame where he stands still, I wanted him to stand straight but I haven't represented that well, I could have added another frame at the end to help achieve his posture properly.</div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1436195810102217785-4864879623474587445?l=m-hussain-27.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>M.Hussainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04395970290505530414noreply@blogger.com0