Monday, October 13, 2008
sound&motion::final product
This project was definitely an interesting exploration on capturing motion, whether it be by virtue of digital or hand-generated means. It also forced me to consider the verbs and actions that I had chosen, and whether the way I portrayed them had to be literal, or abstracted in some way. Regardless of what solution I came up with, I also hoped to keep it still visually legible.
For my final animation here, I initially wanted to compose it entirely as a stop motion piece - but then gravitated towards trying to blend together both digital and analog means of animation. Working with the flash tools allowed for more fluid transitions and tweens, but I definitely also appreciate how less restrictive analog media can be - hence the presence of both here. And I guess in conclusion, I hope the two approaches might result in a harmonious blend to convey my three actions of sketching, ripping, and crumpling.
Questions:
1.) does the transition between analog and digital media distract from the three actions?
2.) would perhaps a less literal representation of the actions have been more interesting/insightful?
3.) Overall legibility of the narrative.
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I think your mixture of digital and analog approaches toward make are very appreciable when mixed. I do, however, feel that when they transition from the first to the second action, there is a sharp introduction to the tone of the paper as well as the shift between the rich digital black to the grayish analog black in the word paper. perhaps there could be some background tones in your digital sketch (ie a photographed piece of paper or such) that would make it less visually distracting. other than those two small issues, it's very smooth.
I think your literal representations were interesting enough to capture my attention. I don't think they would be clear enough to understand if they were abstracted much.
I think it's very clear overall. your transitions make me think of an artist tearing off cells or pages while thinking where to go next with their own animation. it actually takes on a 2nd level of narration. I think your only tweaks are finding a way to marry your stop motion and digital renderings.
The transition from digital to the analog part is pretty smooth and looks really nice except for the slight growth of the text and the sudden appearance of shadows from the paper.
The duration of the motions could have been more varied. it is a consistent of speed. Also to make it more handmade the application of pauses and stutters would have been appropriate. Lastly the rip to crumple is repetitive. The motion rip is used to transition the (rip) motion out of the frame and then it is repeated again as a motion. I
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