#ba3b

Looking at colour.

The idea was to avoid bright colours, keep things muted but maintain an atmosphere and appropriate tone. These were schemes I found that may apply to what we could include.

I added a real basic background, so it wasn’t so empty! 

Character Drawing

This is an initial idea for my current creative writing collaborative project: 'Ampersand'. Working from the briefed idea surrounding character as a starting point, I created a digital drawing from a photo of myself. This was generated by the obvious meaning behind character being individual characters in stories, such as people or animals.I expanded upon this idea by thinking about the characteristics of individuals as part of their personality and the traits portrayed. 

Initial experimentation with cutouts.

I cut out the shapes, photographed them and transferred this to digital 2D, adding inbetweens and testing what I could do with brushes and texture to make this appear more traditional.

And the clean up! 

I added a few extra frames on either side of the merge and changed a few of the positions/poses so that it flowed a little better.

Memory Box - Surreal Animated Short. Emmy Stork

Proxima B - Stop Motion Animated Short. EDDY TV

Surrealist World of Zdzislaw Beksinski. Black Illusion Pictures

surrealism /səˈrɪəlɪz(ə)m/

noun a 20th-century avant-garde movement in art and literature which sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind, for example by the irrational juxtaposition of images.

Chaos and unconscious desires.

Imagination. Psychoanalysis.

Sigmund Freud's "The Interpretation of Dreams" (1899) was an important piece of literature, particularly influential. Importance of dreams, human emotion and desire.

Imagery from this movement is personal and as such can be difficult to define. Based on own recurring motifs, dreams. Uncanny, perplexing. Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst, Joan Miró, René Magritte.

         "The Bureau for Surrealist Research or Centrale Surréaliste was          also established in Paris in 1924. This was a loosely affiliated          group of writers and artists who met and conducted interviews          to "gather all the information possible related to forms that          might express the unconscious activity of the mind.""

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A NOTE

I didn’t realise we still had so much to render, and Uni computers were being reeeally slow, so whilst Isa and Cat are at Annecy this week I’m left to look after the renders on Isa’s computer and put them together for the film. 

Maya has already crashed on me twice, meaning we lost the first render and I had to have Isa walk me through re-creating half of the save file, but I managed to re-do the second scene, so we have that rendered - I just need to figure out how to sort it through after effects, because that didn’t work for me yesterday. 

The computer seems to have bugged out, so I’m hoping it sorts itself out soon so I don’t have to restart and set maya up again. I don’t want to have to take it into uni to sort out, because I wasn’t aware I would be having to babysit the renders this week (or have to put the renders through after effects and edit them too, for that matter) and have a lot of stuff to do myself, but beings as everything that could go wrong IS going wrong, we’ll have to see.

In all honesty I only came back from my holiday because it was agreed that I needed to do more textures, only to find out that plans had been changed last minute and I had to animate and help edit instead because apparently the texturing was all done; it isn’t, and at least two textures I spent a good amount of time painting (for the Drone and Robot) haven’t even been applied because of it not being sorted soon enough to be able to deal with any issues, so that’s a good few days worth of my work that isn’t even being shown.