rough anamatic with sound
http://vimeo.com/33950328
2011年12月19日星期一
Tension charts
1. Alma by Rodrigo Blaas
The character's mood and every reaction are all crucial to the overall tension. The music and sound effects seem to be adding up the tension and helping the viewers to understand the story more.
2. My film
The music of the whole piece adds more elements to the story than just the visual part. The girl's mood and reactions to different environments are what drive through the whole film and create different levels of tensions.
2. My film
2011年12月12日星期一
Why Paper
My animation is about a girl travelling on a train with each of the train sections representing different segments of her life. The themes for my animated film are predestination and the idea of fitting in different environments. My intention for this film is for the viewers to feel some connections for any of the three stages of this girl’s life. Also, I want to make the aesthetics of this film very distinctive and attractive.
Ever since I started my art practice, I have been making artwork that is about imaginary and surreal spaces where characters can interact and move in. Gustave Klimt and Salvador Dali have been my early influential artists ever since the beginning of my high school education. Klimt’s decorative elements and his use of patterns and rich colors have stroked me when I first saw it. As for Dali, the surreal quality of all his paintings is breathtaking whenever I see any of his work.
Lately I have been surfing online for a large amount of time each day getting inspirations from different contemporary artists. One of them is a deviantart artist named Kidchan. Her style involves a mixture of traditional techniques of drawing and digital rendering of coloring and textures. I consider her work to be inspiring also because of the colors and compositions of the spaces she creates visually. I am using her work as a reference for my first train car.
My idea of a girl travelling through a train came from a project I did in the spring semester for the class, Digital Illustration. The theme for the piece is called imaginary world. I did a piece illustrating a girl travelling through a familiar yet strange world of a train car finding herself not belonging into the surroundings. Thus, she becomes the outcast. I began to develop the idea of travelling on a train furthur. Trains or skytrains are transportations that take people from one place to another, from a start to a destination. Whenever I am on skytrains, I observe the people around me. There are people who are plugged in with their music, probably daydreaming. There are children who might be taking the skytrains for their first few times. They are very fascinated by the machine and full of wonders. There are also men with suits who are going to work. Their faces are emotionless and they dress the same. I see train rides very similar to life journeys metaphorically. Trains take people from childhood to youthhood, student to working class, innocence to maturity. I am very familiar with train rides yet I think it is a very good subject to explore because of the different connections everyone has with the trains.
I am very interested in the idea of surrealism and exploring the unconscious. Symbolism plays a big role in my film. For each of the train cars there are numerous of symbols and metaphors involved. For the first train car, the fish is a major symbol representing the little girl's imaginary impulses and innocence. The fish was then hooked, killed, cooked and then delievered back to the little girl in the second train car. This is metaphorically saying the girl's imaginary impulses and innocence were killed as she grows up. I remember hearing the saying of "highschool is like a jungle". Therefore I am making my second train car in the looking of a forest, with different animals representing the different rankings of a social hierarchy. After eating the fish, the girl transforms into a rabbit which has low hierarchy in the jungle known by default. After getting teased and humiliated, the girl eventually gets provoked and fights back for herself. In the last train car, it will look very commercial and minimal at the same time. There are going to be blank cubes rotating and moving in robotic motions symbolizing the motions of the social class. She tries to follow and joins the motion but could not fit in. She then finds an empty cube, fits herself in it, and joins the robotic motions of the cubes. The camera then zooms out to see that the cubes are actually the gears that supports the movement of the train. The train ends as another girl gets on a train on a train station.
I consider the mood for my animation as melancholy. One might relate to my film by thinking how one does not want to grow up and mature but gets forced into doing so. I think the process of growing up is not easy, but it is mandatory to do so. I have heard stories of friends going into the society, not doing what they were taught in school, but doing very restricted and non creative tasks. The ending of my film in a way is saying one has to depersonalize oneself when joining in the society(the cubes). However, standing from a positive point of view, becoming a cube and playing a part of the team supports the whole system: the train or companies we will be working for in the future.
Work Cited
Ever since I started my art practice, I have been making artwork that is about imaginary and surreal spaces where characters can interact and move in. Gustave Klimt and Salvador Dali have been my early influential artists ever since the beginning of my high school education. Klimt’s decorative elements and his use of patterns and rich colors have stroked me when I first saw it. As for Dali, the surreal quality of all his paintings is breathtaking whenever I see any of his work.
Lately I have been surfing online for a large amount of time each day getting inspirations from different contemporary artists. One of them is a deviantart artist named Kidchan. Her style involves a mixture of traditional techniques of drawing and digital rendering of coloring and textures. I consider her work to be inspiring also because of the colors and compositions of the spaces she creates visually. I am using her work as a reference for my first train car.
My idea of a girl travelling through a train came from a project I did in the spring semester for the class, Digital Illustration. The theme for the piece is called imaginary world. I did a piece illustrating a girl travelling through a familiar yet strange world of a train car finding herself not belonging into the surroundings. Thus, she becomes the outcast. I began to develop the idea of travelling on a train furthur. Trains or skytrains are transportations that take people from one place to another, from a start to a destination. Whenever I am on skytrains, I observe the people around me. There are people who are plugged in with their music, probably daydreaming. There are children who might be taking the skytrains for their first few times. They are very fascinated by the machine and full of wonders. There are also men with suits who are going to work. Their faces are emotionless and they dress the same. I see train rides very similar to life journeys metaphorically. Trains take people from childhood to youthhood, student to working class, innocence to maturity. I am very familiar with train rides yet I think it is a very good subject to explore because of the different connections everyone has with the trains.
I am very interested in the idea of surrealism and exploring the unconscious. Symbolism plays a big role in my film. For each of the train cars there are numerous of symbols and metaphors involved. For the first train car, the fish is a major symbol representing the little girl's imaginary impulses and innocence. The fish was then hooked, killed, cooked and then delievered back to the little girl in the second train car. This is metaphorically saying the girl's imaginary impulses and innocence were killed as she grows up. I remember hearing the saying of "highschool is like a jungle". Therefore I am making my second train car in the looking of a forest, with different animals representing the different rankings of a social hierarchy. After eating the fish, the girl transforms into a rabbit which has low hierarchy in the jungle known by default. After getting teased and humiliated, the girl eventually gets provoked and fights back for herself. In the last train car, it will look very commercial and minimal at the same time. There are going to be blank cubes rotating and moving in robotic motions symbolizing the motions of the social class. She tries to follow and joins the motion but could not fit in. She then finds an empty cube, fits herself in it, and joins the robotic motions of the cubes. The camera then zooms out to see that the cubes are actually the gears that supports the movement of the train. The train ends as another girl gets on a train on a train station.
I consider the mood for my animation as melancholy. One might relate to my film by thinking how one does not want to grow up and mature but gets forced into doing so. I think the process of growing up is not easy, but it is mandatory to do so. I have heard stories of friends going into the society, not doing what they were taught in school, but doing very restricted and non creative tasks. The ending of my film in a way is saying one has to depersonalize oneself when joining in the society(the cubes). However, standing from a positive point of view, becoming a cube and playing a part of the team supports the whole system: the train or companies we will be working for in the future.
Work Cited
Jung, C. G. Dreams. [Princeton, N.J.]: Princeton UP, 1974. Print.
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