For my research report, I am going to study Rotoscope, where you take live footage, and add another layer on top, so it looks like a cartoon.
If I have time, I will also be studying Stopmotion, and Claymation. where you take toys, house hold objects, or clay, and take lots of different shots, so when you put them all together, it looks like a film, because your eyes cant register the different clips as they move so fast.
Thursday 19 April 2012
Baaa, By Cyraik
The video Baaa, by cyriak, is really admirable, because the time and detail put into each individual sheep, is extrodinary. It must have taken him years just to learn the skills needed to produce something of such high quality.
CGI animation is a very valuable skill, because it takes a very long time to learn, and the quality of work produced can be amazing. Most modern animation uses CGI technology, this is because the images that are created, can be extremely detailed, so companies like Disney Pixar can create a furry animal that has each hair move when it does, or a tropical ocean, where each individual fish, and each individual scale is designed.
M,ost of Cyraiks films start off simple, but as they progress, the intentions become more and more complex, it starts off with just sheep duplicating (which in itself is difficult), but then the whole construction of the sheep changes, the may have seven legs on their face, and heads instead of legs, they may shed their skin, or start to fly, but all with the original qualities that a sheep possesses.
If I could create a CGI animation for my final piece, I would, however the skills are too complex to learn in twelve weeks, and I am not much of an animator myself, so I am afraid I will have to stick to flash, which has a lot more of a basic layout, and is easy to pick up the skills need it to use well.
New assignment
Today, we have been set a new task, complete with deadlines, for the Bristol Short Story Prize. We have to create a short animation, on, or based around the prize winning story.
The story is called ‘The Bovine Histories’, and is written by a man called Ian Burton. It is about a ‘kow’ who is taught the histories of their kind by Harthor, the keeper of the ‘kow’ histories. Harthor chooses ‘Kow-one’, because she can remember, a skill which none of the other ‘kows’ have acquired.
We were given a copy of the text, to annotate. We had to decide which bits we thought were suitable to animate, because animating the whole thing would take forever. This also gave us ideas about how to produce this animation, because it didn’t have to be written as the exact text, it could be just loosely based, or interpreted in your own way.
Subsequently, we were put into groups of three or four (mine is Katie, Jess and I), and we had to brain storm ideas for the animation on a mind map. Eventually, we decided that we would change the characters of the ‘kows’ to humans, because having cows talking in an animation may look a bit childish, and people will find it easier to relate to humans.
We also decided, to change the setting to a kind of post-apocalyptic abandoned city, where resources are low, and women are treated like livestock, cheap and disposable. Most of the ‘Kows’ believe that they live in heaven, because they are lead to think that they are by Stickman, who overrules them. But ‘Hathor’ knows the truth, and divulges this information to ‘Kow-one’, who will be the new ‘keeper of the histories’
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