Research #2

Today I screened Navigations #1 and Dawn of the Cat to my class and received comments about their thoughts on the animations.

For Navigations #1 the students agreed for what I had to say about the animation as well as showing some surprise for what images where made up of, being cancer cells.

the comments of the second animation mentioned that the animation was of a surreal nature and they also mentioned how the story was not in chronological order, beginning with the end of the story where the woman works with the cats body and then leading up the cat’s accident, this makes the animation a little harder to follow. The class also mentioned how the colour of the cat changed between when it was alive and dead the latter being in a paler tone.

I also had a chance to look at the animation which the other students showed to the group, there was a few animation that caught my eye, there first one is called Flow: The Beauty of Ink - A Particle Aniboom Animation by Alldin Dauti. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMPAkYC4axM

This animation was created by using 3D Studio Max, FumeFX, Krakatoa and AfterEffects, Dauti also mentions that there is 20 - 80 mil particles per shot. His purpose for creating this animation was to see how he could make particles move like ink.

Another one that interested me was an animation on Hashback Hashish’s on youtube channel called PAPERCUTZ - Rivers (Hashback Hashish Remix) 3D. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDZnE-sruTU

Unfortunately there isn’t much information on this animation, however I do think that the animation as a whole was made by using a 3D program as well as using an video editing software like Adobe AfterEffects.

I've taken a particular in particle animation, I find it to be visually appealing as well being an potentially interesting project to work on.  This form of project will also allow me to produce an animation with out having to work on a complex story line or a lot of preproduction work, potentially allowing to concentrate on the animation portion of the animation.

I also don't necessarily need to work on a project such as this using 3D software, I could create something similar using a 2D software such as Flash.