4 D Design: Compisition [Music Video Concept]

Spring 2012

This is what I would call 'Proto-Animation,' More of a skeleton: to much to be a story board but not enough to be an animatic yet too subjective and stylized to be keyframes of anysort, just a concept. On the otherhand, as an animation student without a traditional animation course under hsi belt and windows movie maker on hand, I feel pretty gratisfied with this project, but excuses are still excuses.

I had recently watched the independent film 'Once' featuring Swell Season as the main cast and the compisition of all the music in the film and I especially couldn't get this song, Fallen From the Sky out of my noggin. Even peers got the song looped into their tierd brains during one viewing on critique day. The song is so cathy, my "room mate" gets it stuck in her head at the mee mention of this 'poto aniamtion.' Even though the song is almost edited in half; it, along with some witty metaphors and elating color schemes, is all you need to remember this protomation for all eternity, mwahaha!

Programs: Paint Tool Sai, Audacity [beta], Windows Movie Maker

Painting I: Limited Pallet [Revelation]

Spring 2012

Painting had continued to frustrate me into our adventure into the depth of color. The class worked through a limited pallet of first ultramarine, burnt sienna and white to now those same three oil pigments plus yellow ochre to achieve temperature and muted hue variation on top of our already comprehensive value experiences. Once Richard's lectures of relationships sunk in, I understood what painting was, not what you saw exactly, but portraying what you saw through ones art. I had done it in Katie Waugh's Reveal, 4D Design Project-Steven Carpenter, the Computer Animation Professor, continually said the same about animating and drawing was deffinitly not reality; then why should painting be either? Not to mention my brush work improved a great deal in this painting as well-

Materials: Gessoed Bristol Board, Utrecht Oil Paints

4 D Design: Reveal Video

Spring 2012

The criteria of this video project was to create a situation with a suprising or shocking reveal, be it humorous or frightening or anything inbetween i suppose. By using various, and confusing shots that showed clear decerable form, people were led on to beleive what they saw was something ... else? Well, I Wouldn't want to spoil the suprise, now would I?

On a more objective topic, windows movie maker was an extremely poor choice for video editing but unfortunatly it was all I had on hand; that and a cell phone with a video camera with the resolution of a newborns eyesight, but I don't believe this hindered my concept all too much. On the other hand, the Audio editing eperience was the invaluable and Audacity, even in its beta version, was easy to grasp, handel, and maneuver when editing my diagetic noise.

Equipment: Cell Phone [Video recorder]

Programs: Audacity [beta], Windows Movie Maker