Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Monday, March 17, 2008
2D Final Animation Treatment
Poem:
My Father Taught Me
the dull primer of a’58 MGA
a gunmetal flask of gin
an unusual affection for tweedy
sweater vests, peppery beards, khaki-colored corduroys
a preference for understatement
live jazz in smoky clubs
a need for leaden silence
clouded skies, muted palettes
the musty smell of turpentine, September waves
to walk in dappled water
to honor light and shadow
dusty veils of charcoal
to pause at dusk, not miss
the pewter glow on the horizon
an aversion to extremism
evangelism, fundamentalism, racism
black and white thinking, right and wrong reasoning
he taught me
infinite shades of gray
Narrative and Technical Notes:
I wanted to do a visual interpretation of a poem and I spent a lot of time reading through poems, song lyrics, and short stories. I decided on doing a personal project, animating a poem that my mother wrote to my grandfather.
I was looking for a poem that produced strong visuals and since this piece is about my grandfather, I hope to incorporate both abstract images and memories. The poem will be read and recording and the voicetrack will be edited for pacing purposes.
My grandfather was a painter and the majority of the poem has the theme of a color pallet and paints. I’d like to implement this in both the narrative structure and through stylistic choices. I’m also getting digital prints of many of his oil paintings, so I plan on manipulating the transfer modes of his backgrounds and sections of his paintings to create different painted-on effects.
The narrative structure of the animation will follow pretty closely with the poem. The images will enter and exit the frame as they are mentioned, sometimes morphing and blending into one another as they are read. There will be a 12-15 sec musical break in the poem during the line “live jazz in smoky clubs,” where I will be using a Miles Davis song and creating animation loops of a saxophone and drums playing along. The smoke will be filmed and animated (I’m not sure of this technique yet), then layered to swirl within the instruments.
The hardest section will be the stanza:
- an aversion to extremism
- evangelism, fundamentalism, racism
- lack and white thinking, right and wrong reasoning
I plan on creating miniature picket signs and photographing them on a green screen. They will be animated moving up and down as if being held up by invisible protesters. The final lines of the poem will be read and I plan to videotape someone writing out the last words on a notepad. I’ll manipulate the frame rates so that approximately 1 in 10 frames are used, then trace over and smudge to create a flickering abstract image.
My storyboards consist of mostly stock photos, so the look of the storyboard DOES NOT reflect the look of the final animation. I will be taking photographs (of paintbrushes, paints, sunsets, textures, etc) and shooting video, which will then be traced over in Photoshop and blurred using the smudge tool. I hope to simulate painting on canvas through the animation style, so most of the images will be drawn cleanly, then smudged and manipulated to create abstract, blurred, flickering, and swirling images.
My Father Taught Me
the dull primer of a’58 MGA
a gunmetal flask of gin
an unusual affection for tweedy
sweater vests, peppery beards, khaki-colored corduroys
a preference for understatement
live jazz in smoky clubs
a need for leaden silence
clouded skies, muted palettes
the musty smell of turpentine, September waves
to walk in dappled water
to honor light and shadow
dusty veils of charcoal
to pause at dusk, not miss
the pewter glow on the horizon
an aversion to extremism
evangelism, fundamentalism, racism
black and white thinking, right and wrong reasoning
he taught me
infinite shades of gray
Narrative and Technical Notes:
I wanted to do a visual interpretation of a poem and I spent a lot of time reading through poems, song lyrics, and short stories. I decided on doing a personal project, animating a poem that my mother wrote to my grandfather.
I was looking for a poem that produced strong visuals and since this piece is about my grandfather, I hope to incorporate both abstract images and memories. The poem will be read and recording and the voicetrack will be edited for pacing purposes.
My grandfather was a painter and the majority of the poem has the theme of a color pallet and paints. I’d like to implement this in both the narrative structure and through stylistic choices. I’m also getting digital prints of many of his oil paintings, so I plan on manipulating the transfer modes of his backgrounds and sections of his paintings to create different painted-on effects.
The narrative structure of the animation will follow pretty closely with the poem. The images will enter and exit the frame as they are mentioned, sometimes morphing and blending into one another as they are read. There will be a 12-15 sec musical break in the poem during the line “live jazz in smoky clubs,” where I will be using a Miles Davis song and creating animation loops of a saxophone and drums playing along. The smoke will be filmed and animated (I’m not sure of this technique yet), then layered to swirl within the instruments.
The hardest section will be the stanza:
- an aversion to extremism
- evangelism, fundamentalism, racism
- lack and white thinking, right and wrong reasoning
I plan on creating miniature picket signs and photographing them on a green screen. They will be animated moving up and down as if being held up by invisible protesters. The final lines of the poem will be read and I plan to videotape someone writing out the last words on a notepad. I’ll manipulate the frame rates so that approximately 1 in 10 frames are used, then trace over and smudge to create a flickering abstract image.
My storyboards consist of mostly stock photos, so the look of the storyboard DOES NOT reflect the look of the final animation. I will be taking photographs (of paintbrushes, paints, sunsets, textures, etc) and shooting video, which will then be traced over in Photoshop and blurred using the smudge tool. I hope to simulate painting on canvas through the animation style, so most of the images will be drawn cleanly, then smudged and manipulated to create abstract, blurred, flickering, and swirling images.
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