Monday, January 28, 2008

Storyboard_Preliminary


Here are my sketches for the storyboard just to portray the visuals I have set my mind on thus far. You may not be able to read my writing but it is just describing the action that will be taking place. I plan on having animatics to simply show the movement in real-time.

I will be using geometric forms such as the rectangle, square, steps, ect...
For organic imagery I will be using waves, jellyfish, ect.
What I plan on doing is getting video's of things that portray the movement or emotion that i am trying to express. I will use those as a guide for rotocoping much more abstract forms to the basic movement. (So far I have created a horse gallop sequence but I am still working on it.)
-Pulp Fiction
-Water
-Jelly Fish


They are on here in reverse page order. Either way it jumps around

Walk Cycle_In process

I worked on my walk cycle today and it was fairly simple. I have made so many walk cycles that I understand the process, it is just figuring out the best way to do it with medium you are using. FLash is really basic so I didnt have a lot of trouble.

So I have finished the basic cycle. I need to go back and adjust the ease in and outs but I am pleased with my character.

Script

SCRIPT

Visuals: Alyssa Morley

Song: Spaghetti by Martin Schmidt, GEMA (www.freemusicplay.com)

There are several major themes I would like to convey in this music video. The first will be a sense of mystery which will be indicated with visuals simulating a periodic horse gallop. This will occur at the time with the increase tempo.

The second theme is the juxtaposition between suaveness and contained danger. Images of abstract steps and waves will appear interchangeably according to the rhythm of the music. The danger aspect will be indicated with geometric shapes of black and red. The suaveness will be indicated through an abstract version of the dance scene in the film Pulp Fiction. The figure will be composed on curvilinear lines that sway back and forth at the point of the hips.

Each different instrument will be simulated with different colors or shapes to add variety. Also there is a point in the song where there is a vibrato which is when the musician vibrates the strings by slightly altering the pitch higher and lower. I plan on displaying this part with dots in a circular formation.

John Travolta speaks about foot rubs at one point during the film. He says “Sensuous thing going on but you don’t talk about it.” I want to display this sensuous undertone in the song. I plan on using a curvy orange circular form.

My color choice will be juxtaposition on black and white as well as blown out colors. The black and white is to not only evoke a sense of calmness but also to reinforce the Pulp Fiction theme. The blown out colors will be used to add intensity. Also when the music is quiet, the visuals will appear to be far away form the viewer and when the music is loud it will appear close.

I will still be using circular forms in my visuals however my focus will not be on cycles in nature. I will be representing that subtlety yet the video will concentrate on portraying the before mentioned emotions.

Thursday, January 24, 2008

Tutorial 3_Rotoscoping

I really enjoyed rotoscoping. The first one had a lot of frames and it got pretty repetitive but it was still fun. It's too bad that the walk cycle is not correct from the video.


The first video I shot for the reference for this rotoscope was too dark. Thomas was nice enough to let me film him walking and this worked as much better reference.

Saturday, January 19, 2008

Tutorial 2

For the second tutorial, we were to animate a puppet jumping. This was fairly easy considering it did not require a lot of layers.



For the second part of the tutorial, we were to create our own animation. I decided to do a monster. Mostly I wanted to play around with using multiple layers.


Thursday, January 17, 2008

Tutorial 1_Bouncing Balls

Creating the first one was extremely easy.

However when I went to create the bouncing ball with the custom ease in/ ease out feature, I hit several road blocks. I understand how the graph works but as you can see the end is too quick. Using that feature I could not figure out how to add more frames to the end. It seemed as if (possibly because of the size) there was a set designated number of frames that would show the ball at the end of th curve.

I got so fed up with it that I went back and ended up doing it frame by frame. this allowed me to have control over where the ball appeared and how fast it was. It

Books

To be honest, I do not read a whole lot. I can never find time too with school and work. However I am reading The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test written by Tom Wolfe. Although confusing at times, it is very engaging.

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Premise

NOTE: My premise has recently been changed to the following.

Visual Interpretation of Spaghetti.
Audience: Anyone who is interested in abstract art and music.

Beginning: Start off slow in accordance with music
Who-Organic shapes
What-Visual Interpretation of St Spaghetti
Where- Pulp Fiction theme

Middle:

~The main visual theme will be cyclical nature. Abstractly, I will represent many of the cycles found in nature.

~Visuals will reflect tone, melodies, lyric, ect.
~Although the intensity of the music does not dramatically increase, I will have the visuals gradually become more complex and chaotic.

Ending:

~In this case there will be a sequence following the punch line/climax
~Satisfying ending that gradually decreases after the climax to match the rhythm of the song

Punch line:

~The punch line is more of a climax
~When the music is at it’s most intense part, the visuals will be bursting with high energy

~The visuals will gradually build to this sequence but the punch line will bring an explosion of colors and shapes.

Wednesday, January 9, 2008

Layout





This is my final project for Character Design and Layout.

First Flash Project_Aish Tamid 2005

This was my first project in flash that I completed at Fitchburg State College in Massachusetts. Due to time constraints, I focused more on learning the program than executing my vision the way I would have liked to. It is much more literal than I would have liked and at times is extremely repetive.

With that aside, this type of animation is what I would like to focus on. Ideally I would like to use morphing organic shapes to bring music to life in a visual sense.