animation
animation
25/05/08 09:00 Filed in: Musings
Musing on animation this morning - the mixing of live
action and CGI in Titanic and I Robot - but more the
comings and goings between film and adverts - car
adverts - the stacked object adverts - the car bits
and the Guinness advert - and this going back into
Robots
EMDWT 29/4/08 3
30/04/08 05:56 Filed in: Projects
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and I am thinking about the Pes animation particularly the hot dog one how that is a little story with a point to it very quick very very short sharp shock combination of collage and Ken Burns zooming in and live action a shot to set the scene you begin to think one thing but it builds the story up then at the end you get the crisis point where the whole film changes absolutely perfect and it is a bit like telling a joke so if you think about this in terms of narrative think of it as telling stories where you set the scene give a bit of information so that you viewer gradually begins to get story then it tells you something at the end that makes sense of the rest of it almost the more you can build it up the more that moment of catharsis happens but then it does not have to be like that it could be just like abstract art I could be pure pattern you could be working with daisies making patterns in the garden it could be painterly it could be pure abstract or it could have some sort of function like a tour through the school where you are trying to tell something specific to someone or it could be collections like looking for all the signposts in school or all the doorways you could do a collection of images like that and put then together so it doesn't have to be a story or a narrative it could be to do with pattern or it could be sort of arty or abstract like the famous Warhol where he just had a fixed camera on the empire state building for 24 hours and people actually sat and watched this as art only heaven knows why. Now there's some ideas
and I am thinking about the Pes animation particularly the hot dog one how that is a little story with a point to it very quick very very short sharp shock combination of collage and Ken Burns zooming in and live action a shot to set the scene you begin to think one thing but it builds the story up then at the end you get the crisis point where the whole film changes absolutely perfect and it is a bit like telling a joke so if you think about this in terms of narrative think of it as telling stories where you set the scene give a bit of information so that you viewer gradually begins to get story then it tells you something at the end that makes sense of the rest of it almost the more you can build it up the more that moment of catharsis happens but then it does not have to be like that it could be just like abstract art I could be pure pattern you could be working with daisies making patterns in the garden it could be painterly it could be pure abstract or it could have some sort of function like a tour through the school where you are trying to tell something specific to someone or it could be collections like looking for all the signposts in school or all the doorways you could do a collection of images like that and put then together so it doesn't have to be a story or a narrative it could be to do with pattern or it could be sort of arty or abstract like the famous Warhol where he just had a fixed camera on the empire state building for 24 hours and people actually sat and watched this as art only heaven knows why. Now there's some ideas
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30/04/08 05:56 Filed in: Projects
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Thinking about the animations that I have got to do over the next three weeks with the key stage three kids and how I am going to organise that I was thinking of them just messing about with pixilation in the gardens but I think I need a bit more structure e than that they have got to work in groups because there won't be that many cameras and in a flash of inspiration as I walk up the hill I am thinking probably that we should concentrate more on narrative getting them to produce stories that makes sense of the first session which would be very much about story boarding we could then have the second session that would be about going out and taking the film photographs whatever then the third session that would be putting it together so I am thinking that perhaps comic life would be the best approach that they should tell a story in a number of still images and get the story across in a sequence of still images with shots you could have I shall talk to them about close up shots and framing shots and far away shots different camera angles talk about mood talk about weather they use colour or black or white how they sort of construct the narrative and what story they are trying to get across we could still have space for animation and pixilation in there I don't want to restrict it but the possibility of using a story board type narrative to finish up with as well as an animation might be a really good one the constraint obviously is time and the problem is organisation with so may kids running around particularly if the weather is not particularly good thinking back to assignment 5 now on my MA have got to be working out what I am going to do next and really that goes is very much to do with the website that I am working on the interactive pieces and the animation those are sort of the three threads the animation and the photography that is very much to do with what the kids are doing in work that is their work so what I am doing the website design the blogs the communication bit of it which is the bit that I am exploring and my own work I don't know where that fits in doing the technical learning of it i suppose I don't quite know where I am going to get books from or what books I am going to look at I am thinking towards the animation I have been doing a lot of research into animation I just need to log it getting lots of DVD's out of the library and looking through them I just haven't been very good at logging them yet perhaps I should have a chat with the animation guy at UWE and work on that a bit Svankmeyer I have been looking at loads Lotte Reiniger lots of youtube stuff aardman obviously but animation now if I looked through the animation now that book there is one for the bibliography web site design I am sure that I could go through the bookcase and pull out dozens off books that would form a bibliography of the stuff that I have been looking at over the past few years doesn't have to be now does it it doesn't have to be recent ahh right well thinking that I have to write everything up that I speak I better shut up.
Thinking about the animations that I have got to do over the next three weeks with the key stage three kids and how I am going to organise that I was thinking of them just messing about with pixilation in the gardens but I think I need a bit more structure e than that they have got to work in groups because there won't be that many cameras and in a flash of inspiration as I walk up the hill I am thinking probably that we should concentrate more on narrative getting them to produce stories that makes sense of the first session which would be very much about story boarding we could then have the second session that would be about going out and taking the film photographs whatever then the third session that would be putting it together so I am thinking that perhaps comic life would be the best approach that they should tell a story in a number of still images and get the story across in a sequence of still images with shots you could have I shall talk to them about close up shots and framing shots and far away shots different camera angles talk about mood talk about weather they use colour or black or white how they sort of construct the narrative and what story they are trying to get across we could still have space for animation and pixilation in there I don't want to restrict it but the possibility of using a story board type narrative to finish up with as well as an animation might be a really good one the constraint obviously is time and the problem is organisation with so may kids running around particularly if the weather is not particularly good thinking back to assignment 5 now on my MA have got to be working out what I am going to do next and really that goes is very much to do with the website that I am working on the interactive pieces and the animation those are sort of the three threads the animation and the photography that is very much to do with what the kids are doing in work that is their work so what I am doing the website design the blogs the communication bit of it which is the bit that I am exploring and my own work I don't know where that fits in doing the technical learning of it i suppose I don't quite know where I am going to get books from or what books I am going to look at I am thinking towards the animation I have been doing a lot of research into animation I just need to log it getting lots of DVD's out of the library and looking through them I just haven't been very good at logging them yet perhaps I should have a chat with the animation guy at UWE and work on that a bit Svankmeyer I have been looking at loads Lotte Reiniger lots of youtube stuff aardman obviously but animation now if I looked through the animation now that book there is one for the bibliography web site design I am sure that I could go through the bookcase and pull out dozens off books that would form a bibliography of the stuff that I have been looking at over the past few years doesn't have to be now does it it doesn't have to be recent ahh right well thinking that I have to write everything up that I speak I better shut up.
Ideas - thinking about my practice and what it is
16/03/08 10:51 Filed in: Assignment 2
Thinking
about the roots of animation - my childhood
favourites such as Magic Roundabout, Thunderbirds,
Bill and Ben, Noggin the Nog and the Clangers, Muffin
the Mule and Mclearan - all early influences.
Research could then reach in to the rich European tradition of puppets and animation - further east to shadow puppets - European story telling, myth and fairy tale, creation stories and legends.
I could try and get hold of Oliver Postgate....
Research could then reach in to the rich European tradition of puppets and animation - further east to shadow puppets - European story telling, myth and fairy tale, creation stories and legends.
I could try and get hold of Oliver Postgate....