Kinetic Repost

i added another few verses and tweaked the whirlpool action to be a circular pattern rippling out. These little changes took a lot longer than expected but it's cool i'll keep working on it, i have a good start on nice addition to a demo-reel. I plan on continuing the veins part once i draw an ornate pattern in illustrator it's just going to take a whiiile and i ran out of time. I like this project so i'm gonna keep working.

type upload

Here's the next installment of my kinetic text. i spent a long time working with the effects to create a realistic light box that mimics an 8mm projector without using any actual footage so i can keep the comp on my project and reuse it for any footage i want at any quality. There's a lot more text to go but i'm only going to do half because i know the project will be due soon and i can't let myself just throw out the last bit in a short time and it be crap. i have to live up to a quality so i plan on keeping up the standard i've already set and finish half. this will leave me more to accomplish outside of this class as well.

kinetic type project

for the type project i want to dabble into a motion graphics essential of kinetic typography. i've never done it but i figure i need the practice for commercial work. I want to take a poem called Lamerica by Jim Morrison and use speak the words myself if i can't find him speakin another poem.

Lamerica

Trade-routes
guide lines
The Vikings & explorers
Discoverers
The unconscious

a map of the states
The veins of hiways
Beauty of a map
Hidden connections
Fast trampled forest

Madness in a whisper
neon crackle
The hiss of tires
A city growls

rich vast & sullen
like a slow monster
come to fat
& die

here's an example of what i'm working on in after effects with it.

(this is actually what i finished thursday after class cause i had a few more lines done to show)

midterm

forgot to get this up, i was a little loopy. i buuuuut here's what i turned in. i've been tinkering with a transition scene to make the scenery make more sense and i want to take this thing and make it a lot longer throughout the semester. i get a little anal retentive with effects and details and it took longer to get out what i wanted. I'm going to split it into two parts and continue the next from when the next cell stabs the third cell.

Assets and Character Design

So i spent a lot of time experimenting with the style of the piece. After using the lightbox to take organic images of dough at various densities i built all my characters around it as a background. I feel a pretty solid aesthetic is being established. I left all my assets in one photoshop file that i can just import into after effects when i'm ready. I don't believe that i am completley done with every single asset but i have the majority done and enough to complete one act. I could do an entire animation of what i have but it just wouldn't meet my standards nor the class. I really like the 3 characters i made tho and the virus is pretty much there i just need to figure out the internal parts that would work better.

Story

A. The theme of my piece is to show the molecular level of ideas spread through our mind as a virus infecting our eye. It starts out with a landscape of a cell zooming out to see it is a nerve cell being attacked by viral organisms. The organisms stab through the outer wall killing smaller cells within the structure. Pieces of structure pour out of the end of the virus into the cell and assemble into smaller sharper edged beings. They attack other cells making them create more of themselves as the original cell explodes. zooming out we see the mitochondria powering the cell except the invaders have attached themselves to it and are using it to power an electrical barrier. we keep zooming out to see the rest of the cell completely taken by the organisms only to zoom out further and further seeing the tattered landscape forming into an pupil than an iris.

B. Characters - Virus 1- Giant virus initially invading (acts as mother ships)
Virus 2- smaller parts that move about the interior of the cell.
Civilian Cells (Cells that act sort of human like with a few interacting and talking or caressing)

Outline:

1st scene. Pretty simple just starts showing medium angle then distant shot of overall attack

Second scene back to medium angle as they get gouged and matter is poured into the cavity.

3rd is where matter assembles and attacks another cell.

4th is the mitochondria being made into a foreign power center.

5th scene is the outward zoom away from the cell to show the eye in the end.

Storyboarrrd:

Proj5 Revise and Proposal

A. I took the advice of using the shape of the house more in the piece and added it over the popcorn shaker instead of the brain. I added another Mask of red liquid flowing over the whole piece to show a negative feeling of doom. The original doctor shooting a laser with the cat face was moved earlier to not be in the way of the popcorn movement. i also added an unmasking of the word "eat" as if it was drawn on the screen quickly. I thought the word on itself would play a double meaning to obviously eat the popcorn but also a greater purpose of being forced to consume what you are seeing.

B. Proposal - Since i've been dealing with consumerism and advertising I feel like i will take the first project i did with the mosquito and continue on with that image to further delve into our minds on a visual scale. The mosquito gouging the eye is step one. After infiltration the advertising is injected into our eye and overtakes the organic matter that is there. I wanted to take inspiration from the way a virus invades a cell to show an organic landscape with mechanical beings "rewriting" the cells to create more bioengineered cells that will spread the goal of the advertisement. From there the battle pushes forward to the mind as Machines of war go on a full assault of the senses. Blimps fly and rockets are fired at onto a small city where the people fall one by one as the destruction only causes them to rise again, only under the control of another entity. Mindless zombies attacking the rest of the city until not one self motivated individual remains.

McManson's from wreckandsalvage on Vimeo.

Aesthetic Inspiration

Kadavre Exquis-Vassili from Kadavre Exquis on Vimeo.

Hermanos Inglesos feat. MeMe - Wanderland from Kristof Luyckx on Vimeo.

Animation Tag Attack Episode 8 from Scott Benson on Vimeo.