The Show

Video

That homework thing

Motion - Sound

The motion of our animatic will capture anticipation by continuously building up different elements. However, at the apex of interest, our video will end and the other works will proceed. So the sound would be a building of different instruments and noises and come to a peak but quickly go mute as the objects start to complete themselves.

Motion - Word

There is no true motion for the word anticipation. Anticipation is more of a feeling of anxiousness and curiosity. Both of which we hope to achieve in our buildup and drop-off.

Motion - Visual

Our visuals will start simple, with simple shapes in a simple dimension (2-D). The two-dimensional plane will shatter and reveal a series of different three-dimensional objects on their way to form with each other. The camera will cut progressively quicker as the music and tension builds until the peak when the screen is black.

Sound - Word

The sound relating to our word will be a mix of instruments, breathing, and heartbeats all building with each other. The instruments will become louder, breathing heavier, and the heartbeats faster until hitting the end.

Sound - Visual

The two-dimensional objects will correlate to the breathing at first and the three-dimensional objects will correlate to the heartbeat. The three-dimensional objects will expand and contract slightly like blood for each beat.

I think that's the plan

This tew

dood. depth of field.

got it.

The Transition

Comp 1.mov

Play it backwards.

It's rough but

It kinda looks cool

And the blue one looks weird.. like not explodey enough

the 12 principles of design part 2

Secondary Action: Some of the short animations have pieces separate from the main point of interest that are moving, creating an added depth or realism to the movements.

Follow Through: One of the main animations at the beginning flows out, and collapses on itself. After the collapse, it lets out kind of a splash.

Pose-by-Pose: The current way we are doing the  flash animation is Pose-by-Pose; we drew out the main, key frames and filled in some of the frames in between.

Staging: The small animations occuring the middle are emphasized by the wide empty space around them.

Appeal: We are using attractive, flowing movement and shapes keeps the viewers attention.

Solid Drawing: The second part of our animation uses three-dimensional objects made in blender.

12 Principles of Animation (Part 1)

1. Timing: The timing of our animation is based primarily on our sound, which consist of a constantly increasing breath and heart beat.

2. Ease In/Ease Out: Each animation that we show will ease in as a small abstract form and ease out as a different abstract form.

3. Arcs: Arcs are used in the general motion of all our animations.

4. Anticipation: Our entire animation showcases the idea of anticipation.

5. Exaggeration: We exaggerate our forms by stretching the laws of physics. We will create several vortices to form and flow as we please.

6. Squash and Stretch: We will incorporate squash and stretch in a portion of our animation where we simulate flowing water using Blender.

http://vimeo.com/19089326

So this is kinda cool.

It like leaves you hanging and cuts but goes back.. anticipation!

and it's really simple stuff but it's intriguing .. I think.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBaZYH8U8fw

 Here's a video tutorial for making a cool text effect. The cool thing isn't the text, but the flowing shapes he makes. It looks really professional , and we could easily do it in After Effects.

skip to :40 to see the actual video of the finished result

So I did this video in literally 2 minutes with those metaball things.

Like this.. one. kinda

but not as cool and less polished and ya.

http://vimeo.com/13395858

Simple but cool. Ellie posted it somewhere so I can't take credit for it. But we can make it pretty organic to make it go with that heartbeat thing

Maybe we can take like parts of some of the structure things the arch kids are making and start to build them but leave out the huge connecting pieces that make up the costume or whatever

Then when they walk in with them everyones like oh hey whoa that thing.

Not all of them because that'd take forever but... ya know

ya know

Thoughts and References

Hey, sorry I didn't brainstorm earlier, I've been rather swamped today.


I remember the gorilla exercise from Josh's class, and that sounds like a very appropriate idea for our project!

When I was thinking of anticipation, I guess I was thinking of a more literal interpretation of the word. Like I had an idea of stylistically representing the building up of excitement of an event, without the reveal. Like an animation of a predatory animal tensing before it pounces, or a runner before the race begins, or a woman very late in her pregnancy (it'd be a less intense rep of anticipation). And for sound, maybe a rising heart-beat, which signifies an elevation of mood or excitement, or maybe the sound of an orchestra preparing for a piece, or a musical build up of some kind.

I'll try to get some referential images or videos before class tomorrow for some of my ideas, and post it up here. I'm still rather unsure of what he expects from us  :S

Edit:

I also thought it might be cool to have a running narrative that has a character working towards a goal that the viewer doesn't know of, but is interesting enough to make them eager for the final reveal. Kind of like a man running toward the light at the end of the tunnel sort of thing. There would be many pieces that do not make any sense until they are brought together.

Edit Edit:

Here's wikipedia's definition of :
"Anticipation, or being enthusiastic, is an emotion involving pleasure (and sometimes anxiety) in considering some expected or longed-for good event"
We might also want to consider the duality of the word as it's defined by wikipedia.   

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydqBAzeOOTI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmyE534nN7A

So I'm thinking kinda like in life drawing when we did those monkey things and we drew all that crap and didn't know what it was until we flipped it..

Something like that except I guess without the big reveal because that be with the clothes or whatever they are.

That's kinda a summary of what those videos are.. the 1st one is some guy making cool stuff that only looks cool at the end and the second one is some professor guy talking about anticipation.

But yea.. so far I only have concepts but I dunno what the content will be haha