The idea is growth, starting as a seed and growing into a space, until it has filled the space. Its suppose to represent growing up, having help at the start, then gradually growing up on your own.
This youtube video is sort of how we plan on animating the growing, starting at 7 seconds in.
Showing posts with label Kinetic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kinetic. Show all posts
Monday, 1 November 2010
Thursday, 21 October 2010
Kinetic | A talk with Rick
We booked a session with Rick from Moving Image. We wanted to run through are ideas which we had highlighted in the ideas storm brain tree.
The feed back we got from Rick was good.....meaning he didnt like all are ideas, so it narrowed are amount of ideas down to about two or three.
Here are some notes i took when Rick was with us, he gave us some suggestions of artists as well.
We narrowed are ideas down to, like i said, two or three ideas.
1. Gravity
2. footsteps.
3. somthing else that i can't think of right now!
we then brain tree'd idea spider thought are three ideas (which ill shall put on here as soon as i can) to think of why we wanted to do these things, why they relate to kinetic etc..
This was successful as we started to see which ideas had the most possibility and deeper meaning. also we came up with more ideas to make them even better, so it was a productive session!
The feed back we got from Rick was good.....meaning he didnt like all are ideas, so it narrowed are amount of ideas down to about two or three.
Here are some notes i took when Rick was with us, he gave us some suggestions of artists as well.
We narrowed are ideas down to, like i said, two or three ideas.
1. Gravity
2. footsteps.
3. somthing else that i can't think of right now!
we then brain tree'd idea spider thought are three ideas (which ill shall put on here as soon as i can) to think of why we wanted to do these things, why they relate to kinetic etc..
This was successful as we started to see which ideas had the most possibility and deeper meaning. also we came up with more ideas to make them even better, so it was a productive session!
Thursday, 14 October 2010
kinetic | Recycling Old Posts | 1
I forget when this was said in the briefing, but i know it was mentioned...The final thing we come up with doesn't have to be moving, just representing movement/kinetic. This made me think of an old post about an animator called Robert Clampett.....
Looking at the still imagery, you see a lot of movement...the screen grabs below are from John Kricfalusi blog.
Each one has so much going on, yet its only a screen grab.....maybe there's something in this!
Looking at the still imagery, you see a lot of movement...the screen grabs below are from John Kricfalusi blog.
Each one has so much going on, yet its only a screen grab.....maybe there's something in this!
Kinetic | What Does It Mean! (also some initial ideas)
Such a broad brief, you can do a lot with the word 'Kinetic', you can go in soooo many different directions. But I think a good place to start would be to understand the word Kinetic.
Definition - 1. Relating to, or resulting from motion.
2. (of a work of art) Depending on movement for its effect.
that last bits quite nice 'depending on movement for its effect' it reminds me of chain reactions, Something moving leads to something else moving and so on and so on.....could be something in that?
Helen said when they (the tutors) were reading the brief out, she immediately thought of lines/ arrows this lead to the idea of a journey, a literal journey? who knows, but I like it.
One idea which everyone took an interest in was about water. Water makes stuff move, like for example a message in a bottle, if it wasn't for the water it wouldn't move (unless very strong winds etc), this was linked to an idea Helen had about a journey.
Last night I wrote down an idea/ something i remember from the days in college. When visiting the Tate I sat in a room looking at something which someone had made....I took a picture of it....
What it was, was a load of mirrors attached to string (like a mobile....not the phone!) and then light shone on them, like a disco ball, and it made different light reflections on the white wall. It relayed on movement and light to become a piece of art.
I was fascinated by this and I sat in there for a good 30 minuets (jack can clarify that!), but why did i sit there so long?
Well, it was always different. The light never reflected back in the same pattern ever again, which is why i never got bored of it.
When speaking in the group I talked about an idea of 'every movement is different' which started off in my head as walk cycles. taking a quote from 'The Animators Survival Kit'...
Thinking of 'every walk is different' I was also thinking about moods and how your walk changes depending on what mood your in....there's something in that as well.
This walk cycle idea lead to footsteps and how you never walk in the same place even if that's what your trying to do. Before we talked about the idea of footsteps, Bill joked about just presenting a room which we all just walk in and out, one after another, to show movement!....But why not! the idea of footsteps lends it self perfectly to this idea, because we can show (somehow) that even when doing the same thing, its always going to be different!
Definition - 1. Relating to, or resulting from motion.
2. (of a work of art) Depending on movement for its effect.
that last bits quite nice 'depending on movement for its effect' it reminds me of chain reactions, Something moving leads to something else moving and so on and so on.....could be something in that?
Helen said when they (the tutors) were reading the brief out, she immediately thought of lines/ arrows this lead to the idea of a journey, a literal journey? who knows, but I like it.
One idea which everyone took an interest in was about water. Water makes stuff move, like for example a message in a bottle, if it wasn't for the water it wouldn't move (unless very strong winds etc), this was linked to an idea Helen had about a journey.
Last night I wrote down an idea/ something i remember from the days in college. When visiting the Tate I sat in a room looking at something which someone had made....I took a picture of it....
What it was, was a load of mirrors attached to string (like a mobile....not the phone!) and then light shone on them, like a disco ball, and it made different light reflections on the white wall. It relayed on movement and light to become a piece of art.
I was fascinated by this and I sat in there for a good 30 minuets (jack can clarify that!), but why did i sit there so long?
Well, it was always different. The light never reflected back in the same pattern ever again, which is why i never got bored of it.
When speaking in the group I talked about an idea of 'every movement is different' which started off in my head as walk cycles. taking a quote from 'The Animators Survival Kit'...
Thinking of 'every walk is different' I was also thinking about moods and how your walk changes depending on what mood your in....there's something in that as well.
This walk cycle idea lead to footsteps and how you never walk in the same place even if that's what your trying to do. Before we talked about the idea of footsteps, Bill joked about just presenting a room which we all just walk in and out, one after another, to show movement!....But why not! the idea of footsteps lends it self perfectly to this idea, because we can show (somehow) that even when doing the same thing, its always going to be different!
Kinetic | The Team
Paul Underhill - Illustration
Tom Mathieson - Moving Image
Helen Porter - Graphics
Bill Morales - Graphics
Yer, I like my group, they all seem like really nice people. Spending most of Tuesday together we all seemed to get on well.......for now! nah, seriously, I have a good feeling about this.
Once we got the brief (after hours of waiting!) we all sat down and discussed. We did a mind map of 'what moves', now...we were all very jolly and talkative when making a tower for an egg, but all the team building exercises in the world cannot prepare you for coming up with ideas. when your on your own its hard enough, but to speak about an idea you have can be pretty tough. As well, to elabrate on other peoples ideas to come up with something cool also takes confidence and also quick thinking, or else your all just sat there.
This is the 'mind map', 'brain storm', 'ideas tree', 'political correct ideas board', what ever you want to call it, below.
Thinking of ideas took us to the end of the day. For Friday we said we would research 'Kinetic' keeping in mind are initial ideas but also keep thinking of other ideas.
Tom Mathieson - Moving Image
Helen Porter - Graphics
Bill Morales - Graphics
Yer, I like my group, they all seem like really nice people. Spending most of Tuesday together we all seemed to get on well.......for now! nah, seriously, I have a good feeling about this.
This is the 'mind map', 'brain storm', 'ideas tree', 'political correct ideas board', what ever you want to call it, below.
The ones highlighted are ones which we thought were the strongest ideas...or ones we liked the most. We would talk to Ric (tutor) to hopefully get an idea of which ones he thought might have the most potential.
Thinking of ideas took us to the end of the day. For Friday we said we would research 'Kinetic' keeping in mind are initial ideas but also keep thinking of other ideas.
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