I’m working with Nahana for this project. Our basic storyboard and a collection of some of our resources for the animation. The story is that there’s a little boy who has no eyes. He goes on a journey with a talking monkey to get eyes. When he gets his special eyes though, he’s so terrified by what he sees that he decides to gouge his eyes out.
ITP
Most-Portem for Spirit Animals
Posted by jelani | Animals, People, and those In-Between, ITP | No CommentsHere’s the final version of Monkey Spider (for lack of a better name).
From the beginning I enjoyed doing this spirit animal assignment. Thinking up a spirit animal and developing it was a good exercise in character development.
Initial idea.
Character sheet.
By the end of it, I had a strong sense of who the character was, its desires and the environment it lived in. The only thing I failed at was finding its name. Perhaps its destined not to have one.
The interconnected world assignment was a bit rough though.
Drawing and Story here.
All of the animals in the world came in with strong identities, and making them work together was quite a stretch. In the end, we managed to put together a story to describe how they interacted, but no sort of taxonomy diagram we could think of would have worked without being awkward or requiring our characters to change.
Had we started this series of work with the last assignment in mind it may have made a difference. Perhaps the most interesting thing that came out of this was me figuring out that drawing something by hand and then tracing the path gives me a result that I really kind of like.
A claymation I worked on with Fiona Daniels and Tim Hanyes
Alright, so we had to work with our previous 12 tone piece and stretch it out with SPEAR. Unfortunately, my result frankly… sucked. I didn’t even bother showing this in class. I should have just composed a brand new piece in spear, which is a nice enough program i must admit. Though its lasso tool could use a bit of work.
Storyboard for a claymation animation to be finished next week. We’re going to try to make sure the development is clearly shown in each shot and we’re thinking of changing the 4th shot to make it way over the top. Sound will play a huge role in this, but we’re going to be short on time so I’m not sure if that will manage to be as polished.
Arrrgh, I really hated making this. I couldn’t figure out how to end the damn thing.
video link coming soon!
My spirit animal. The toughest thing about him so far is his name. He has a very elusive name. Perhaps it will come to me one day. I feel like it’s close.
About him.
The first thing you must understand is that he doesn’t do it will ill intent. Ever so rarely things go wrong but that’s just an unfortunate eventuality. It’s the risk of it, the thrill of the chase, the satisfied feeling of a plan well laid that really drives him. He is a trickster at heart and it’s what he does best.
Yea, when things go bad he hides. But it isn’t without trouble. Taking the shape of a spider (and the reverse transform as well) is no laughing matter. If he must, he always hides first. No one has ever seen the complete change.
traits
He is calm most of the time, though he may smile slightly if planning a spectacular piece of trickery.
Few things can make him angry, but when he does… watch out!
He sometimes plays human and put on clothes. Sometimes he gets caught, but mostly not. He wraps up his tail and wears custom made shoes to cover his long feet.
So the idea was to make a flip book. At first I was going to take Ken from street fighter and do his shoryuken finisher. Then I realized that this is a flip book and that the animation is probably only going to last about 6 second. So… brainstoming time.
I let my brain have at it and the logical progression was thus:
Shroyuken = martial arts = punching = the point of impact of a fist on an object = fist to face = face getting blown off by force of punch, leaving a skull = baby-in-a-blender.
So I’m in the process of making a baby-in-a-blender flipbook that will be title’d “Impact.” Sounds good eh?
So I’ve storyboarded and timed it out in my head and I think I’ll do it by hand in pencil. I’ll use a soft pencil to trace out broad outlines, a softer one to fill and color’d pencils for the blood n stuff.
i’ll post the results once i’ve finished it.
Unfortunately, not everyone who participated blogged about their work, so I didn’t get to see it all, but here are are my favorite projects from the blog.
- Daniel’s glowing pickle. I saw him playing around with it live. It was pretty cool to watch.
- Lieje’s tesellation. It’s a cat! It’s a dog! It’s super squirrel! It’s pretty cool is what.
- Ben and Alex build a Rube Goldberg Machine. This is pretty sweet. I like how they ended it with the camera shutter being triggered. Watch the video.
- Adam’s key frequency analysis. The visualization on this is really nice. In an earlier version he just had a bar graph but it’s alot easier to read this data. This would make a nice app to run as a background for your desktop or something.
- Lieje’s 5th element make up thingy. Because any project that references the 5th element has got to be gold. I really want to go rewatch that movie right now.
- Matt’s diamond art. This really appealled to me. I saw him working on it and was hoping he’d go with his idea of poking the lights through the holes on the bottom, but it seems like he had problems with them falling out. The spiral thing is ok too though.