Experimental Animation #6

So for today's class we started to wrap up our final project which revolved around water, colors, silhouettes, and a filtered scene to glaze over our footage. There were a few issues when putting it into after effects, such as, waiting for our altered/edited footage to load into the system. It Tok up a lot of our time and it was a bit frustrating because it slowed down our production and our final scene. It did get put together really well though and one of my favorite scenes besides the paint galaxy that was created to show the home of the entity, is the land of the individual stuck with nature. It made it feel like an old cartoon, but the tools we used were very twenty first century so I like the fact that we can take it back a bit to the past. It was an enjoyable experience I hope for our next assignment we can put a better foot forward.

This week's experimental animation highlight that caught my attention was the animation called Simulythos. Its posted on Vimeo under the name Snow Yunxue Fu but in the title of the film it says that its by Nick Flaherty but says that a multitude of people were included in the film that put their own individual work into it. My favorite part of the footage is parts 33:51-46:19. I loved the digital animation that was put into the work! I thought I was watching an indie horror game but I like this peace because I have been running into a lot of experimental animation that is abstract but for this piece I like the fact that there was a story being told. Only oh so many days left until people/androids have to evacuate.
https://vimeo.com/217731538

Experimental Animation #5

                    So for today's class Group D was moving forward with our animation. We took a lot of what we learned from previous lessons to fuse into our final project such as the paint on the glass and using paint remover to help glide the colors together with oil paints. We plan to also include shadow puppets to storytelling, and we also plan to make the green screen effective as well. There were a plethora of ideas that can be useful with poses and and unique backgrounds that we can make in photoshop. There is still a lot of work that can be done so stay tuned for the final results. 

This is an experimental animation that I found on the internet that contains a lot of abstract shapes but a great color scheme. Land by Masanobu Hiraoka

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bXy_izGMvg

Experimental Animation # 4

SO for today's class, my professor went over a few things in after effects so that way we won't forget what we have learned in previous classes. We went over importing image sequence, keying, color correction, masking, and rendering. Since my group and I didn't have the model in a single spectrum on the green screen it was complicated to crop her out, plus it was a long process to crop her out frame by frame for each second so I just kept a circle around her head and commenced with the animating but you could still see her multiple movements in the circle nut her head isn't the focus. 

BUT ITS EXPERIMENTAL! 

For this week's research, I found this footage on Vimeo by 

Srishti-Bangalore. I feel that this would go great with some of the ideas my group and I would have for our entirety project. Seems like after effects will be able to do a lot of the tasks that are needed.
https://vimeo.com/117367050

Experimental Animation # 3

              So for today's class, Group D started out our assignments by partaking in the William Burroughs writing style that leads to consequence. It was a fun assignment and very random. Seems that we had a good outcome with our sentence structure and storyline, lead to some interesting statements.

The second assignment we did for the day was based on making our own shadow puppets using a dark room as well as some see through silhouette cut outs as well as using my hands for the short animation clip that we put together. 

The third project we did for the day was related to a green screen. Unfortunately we didn't have model so everyone decided that I should be the model for the shot. It was really fun and interesting. I think that I have gotten used to making really perfect work for my previous animation classes so the fact that I could loosen up a bit and just be goofy, free of worries, makes experimental animation even more fun and enjoyable. This is the original uncut version that I have decided to upload. I will eventually post up the finished version that has been composited in after effects in a few days. 

The las assignment that we did for the day was related to oil paints. I usually use acrylic paints for my assignments because I like the speedy way that the paint dries but using oil paint was effortless. The paints glided together really smoothly and just a little bit wen ta long way, but the clean up was another story. 

We also had to look for a video that showcased experimental work. I chose a student's assignment that I found on Vimeo. The reason why I chose this footage is due to the fact that this week I used oil paints for the first time and I just wanted to finish off the day strong with something that I have never used before. I like the pastel colors that were used for the production and the slow animation that alters with the transitions of the colors. 

https://vimeo.com/289331850