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Sis Around the Sandmill animation

Posting the work to mark the end of my degree. Ups and downs over the last three years. This piece is no where near perfect but I’m fairly happy with it. It can be improved with better editing, camera panning and animation. The colours are what I like the most and I’ve had some good feedback from the tutors and my peers. Enjoy.

JumpTrumpRumpBump

The layers in this animation create a great depth in the space and feels like a children’s pop-up book. Many characters are animated using joint movements much like shadow puppets. The colour scheme works brilliantly and has an organic feel to it.

Overture

I came across this video and found it inspiring in many ways. It’s wonderful and dreamy.

Intro (16:9)

Then I spent another day doing another 20 seconds to the animation, the most frustrating thing with animation is that 20 seconds takes a whole day to do and this isn’t even a frame-by-frame animation. Anyway, I experimented with texts and added lights to the buildings with the blur effect to add glow. Not a brilliant animation, but by trying out my ideas I am able to filter what works and what doesn’t. Pace of work is going really well this week, so hopefully I can get the body of the whole animation finished in a week then I can go back and tweak things, the feedback will be more helpful too when the main structure is done.

Intro

Started working with the visuals from the storyboard today, took a LONG time to prep up the images in Photoshop because I had to slice up the cityscape to create layers to be used in After Effects. Glad it’s all done now though.

Vanishing Point

Saw this video a while ago, very clean and well put-together. I want to try out some of the techniques in this video because the image and the music work brilliantly together.

Drawings – Part 2

I was looking at the brainstorming page in my sketch book, reading about why Avey Tare and Kria Brekkan made the decision to release Pullhair Rubeye in reverse (Due to being stuck in New York one winter and after watching Inland Empire)although I still can’t find out what the lyrics was about and what their inspirations were as the songs were recorded long before it was released.  I also did some brainstorming whilst reading the lyrics of my favourite song from the album (Lay Lay Off, Faselam) and did some drawings on what popped in my head at the time.

Brainstorm (reversed and with music)

The music is from the Pullhair Rubeye album called Foetus No-Man.

I think I chose the wrong compression for the reversed video so the quality is a bit wonky.

Drop

I took out the Spike Jonze short film collection DVD out the other day and found out that he also did a reverse video for alternative hip hop group Pharcyde back in ’96. The choreography is great for this video.

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