Experimental Animation #16

May 6, 2019

This is my finished project. I hope that the class will enjoy it for today.
I know a lot could be done to fix my issues but I can only try my absolute best.
I hope you guys like my sailor senshi transformation!

The last video that I choose to upload for my Experimental Animation Blog that I not my own is by Andrew Thomas Huang. I simply chose this experimental animation because it is so visually appealing to me. Seeing that I am not super proud of my work, I would one day hope and strive for my work to be as cool and defined as Andrew's work.

http://blog.calarts.edu/2014/09/25/inaugural-experimental-animation-visiting-artist-series-welcomes-andrew-thomas-huang/

Experimental Animation #15

April 29, 2019

So I am still working on finishing my last project. I have made a lot of mistakes with masquing in after effects but you know what, its experimental and its my first class, I am very proud that I am seeing a bit of progress with my work. Still. not able to really show anything that is clean except for the last scene for the footage that I am working with that I am actually happy to show.

For this weeks experimental animation feature that I decided to choose is by Maira Maneroa Muro with her animation or rather footage called Making of Experimetnal Animation Workshop 2, Punto y Raya. I chose to use this footage due to the fact that it has been a daunting yet fun experience to create my work. I think that it is important for audiences to know that it takes time and creativity to create and come up with experimental animation. It was so realistic and relatable. 

https://vimeo.com/107362594

Experimental Animation #14

April 22, 2019

So my group members and I are now set on fixing all of our gathered footage that we have accumulated over the last few weeks. I am not use to masquing every second by second because it took a lot of man hours and patience as well as having to ignore my other finals but I am happy with what I could produce with the amount of time I had available for myself. Shout out to all of my animators out there! I love you all for continuously persevering through this world when you try to create your art!

Just looking a this masterpiece I can feel my inner sailor senshi coming out of me!
this week's experimental animation research that I will be showcasing today is by Steve Cutts and his piece is called Happiness. To be completely honest I chose this piece because I was immediately reminded of The Great Mouse Detective, besides that point, I felt like this animation was just a reflection of the world we live in today. I don't eel that a lot of people are happy and I feel that a lot of people are looking for true happiness through sex, materialistic items, drugs, alcohol, and the more the people chase after those things, those instant highs, they end up not being able to deal with reality.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9dZQelULDk

Experimental Animation #13

April 15, 2019

For today's shoot we shot my teammate Kristine's scene.
She had a creative idea with her being stuck in a bottle and she's a tiny version of herself.
I was a bit afraid to venture into something a bit challenging like that due to the fact I wasn't sure if we would have enough time to dedicated with masking and shrinking.
But her idea was creative and I hope that she likes the outcome of her footage.
she basically had to do the same thing as me, pixilation.
So she to, sat in the same place for a long period of time and sat underneath the extremely hot lights.

This week I decided to use an experimental animation piece form the youtube channel called
 Source Ekalpa India. I chose this animation because for the past couple of weeks my group and I have been suffering with pixilation! in this footage, this team was able to have more of an open space for their pixilation and they didn't have to sit in one place for a couple of hours underneath some scorching hot lights! but none the less, good work was created.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJmFq-7dj24

Experimental Animation #12

April 8, 2019

It is now my day to film for my footage. Might I say, it was a lot of work to pixilize me.
I was sweating underneath the hot lights, it was hard to stay in one place, it was hard to not laugh, it was hard wearing a fur coat underneath the lights of the Sahara desert, it was hard having to not use the restroom but having to hold it for the sake of a shot...But it was worth it! I had fun because I know what actors/actress, and the CGI department of movies have to go through in order to get their masterpieces completed.

For this week's experimental animation research I found another experimental animation that I found on the same Vimeo page that I found Dante's animation in my previous post. This piece is by Mathieu Labaye and I thought that it was important to choose an animation that has a purpose/ meaning behind it. He dedicated it to his father that passed away that suffered from multiple sclerosis.
I chose this piece not only because of the dedication to his father but the time and disciplined it took to complete a 9 minute video.

https://vimeo.com/channels/1270742/74472983

Experimental Animation #11

April 1, 2019

This is the week of Spring break for my group and I and we are excited to get it done.
We were able to get some type of audio for our group to incorporate into their footage. I had a bit of trouble trying to figure out what sound to make for my scene so I decided to use a sound track from a movie so that way I can instantly get the audiences attention with the sound because it will be familiar to them. I have decided on the location where I will be. It will be somewhere in the sky so that way I can float with zero gravity. I wasn't sure if it was going to be in outer space or just in the stratosphere. These are a few pictures that I have in mind.

So for this week's experimental animation research I decided to choose The doodle project! Its by an animation named Dante Zaballa, where he started a single picture and sent it to various other animators to continue on with each scene with their own character design and their own motion so that way they can create their own animation after a period of time. I thought it was fun and a bit liberating without having to constrain oneself to one concrete style.



https://vimeo.com/channels/1270742/74472983

Experimental Animation #10

March 25, 2019

Today is the day where we began shooting our scenes for each of the members in the group. I think everyone's ideas are true to their tastes of animation and humor but we do have a lot of people that LOVE 2D animation, so when some are done filming their footage they will go ahead and rotoscope the footage and take their animation to another realm. For today we decided to utilize the hallway for one of my classmates footage that she needed. She wanted to make it seem like she was in a forest and she sees a plant that ends up scaring her away into another portal.

For this week's animation research I found a piece that was about plastic surgery. I do feel like it is a bit of an epidemic these days. For me, I personally believe that those that have suffered from burns, a disease, an accident are those that truly deserve cosmetic surgery do to the fact that they want to look like the everyday person, to go back to what they looked like so that they may forget the trauma. not he other hand, I believe that there are others that will abuse the term surgery to get instant gratification to gain some attention, followers, negative self esteem, as well as vanity. It leads to people becoming addicted to surgery, and they eventually never become satisfied with their looks, and some even end up with casualties from surgeries that could lead to disorders.

This piece is by a youtuber need Angie Koh