I have split this section up into four sub sections:
1. The explorations that I
have been doing with students in school
a) Crazy Talk - this was a
project with year 7, exploring the creation of avatars.
b) Bob and Bobita - the main experimentation with
silhouette animation, spacial montage, and using an updated
fairy tale for the narrative element of the work.
c) Experiments with reciprocating and silhouette
animation
2. Trials (and tribulations)
with Flash
a) Scrubbing - reproducing the scrubbing effect of a film
edit suite, flip book, or ipod
b) Inverse Kinematics - working with the new bones feature
in Adobe Flash CS4
c) Zoetrope - an adaption of some code that I found and
stole, to recreate the effect of a zoetrope.
d) Drag and Drop - exploring the possibilities of creating
illustrations with a combination of drag and drop, drawing,
and screen capture.
3. The ‘Santa’
experiment
This tested the technical possibilities of getting a
database online, but also the possibilities and
implications of random answers, the mimetic qualities of
‘make believe’
4. Experimentation with lip
sync and Quicktime VR.
a) The creation of an avatar as ‘narrator’, or as an ‘ask
teacher’ feature. I experimented in getting this to look as
much like me as possible, but in an exaggerated way, to
fine a balance between comic and farcical.
b) Looking at quicktime VR technology as a possibility for
interactive illustrations.
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