Some rough storyboards I did to come up with my designs for this project.
Some were better than others. I kind of just kept sketching as many ideas as I could come up with. I picked three of my favorites.
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Exploration 1A: Pictorial Composition
Proof of Concept
Some rough storyboards I did to come up with my designs for this project.
Some were better than others. I kind of just kept sketching as many ideas as I could come up with. I picked three of my favorites.
Some rough storyboards I did to come up with my designs for this project.
Some were better than others. I kind of just kept sketching as many ideas as I could come up with. I picked three of my favorites.
Monday, August 29, 2011
Introduction to Luma Matte project.
INTRODUCTION
One of the first projects we're working on for our sophomore fall animation class is creating a hand made "luma matte" with our stop motion lab. The basic idea is to transition from a completely solid black image to a solid white image by hand, which we will later use on the computer.
Its interesting to consider creating this type of transition by hand when you have so many pre-made options available already in programs such as After Effects. Not a lot of people pay attention to transitions but they're most popularly noted in movies such as Star Wars (that Lucas Films).
I don't find something like this too much of a challenge, I just don't want to keep it too bland or go too crazy with my ideas. I really want to see imperfection/spontaneity with it, though. I enjoyed how well my ink and watercolor projects did in my first year so I might implement my knowledge with those into this project as well.
Its interesting to consider creating this type of transition by hand when you have so many pre-made options available already in programs such as After Effects. Not a lot of people pay attention to transitions but they're most popularly noted in movies such as Star Wars (that Lucas Films).
I don't find something like this too much of a challenge, I just don't want to keep it too bland or go too crazy with my ideas. I really want to see imperfection/spontaneity with it, though. I enjoyed how well my ink and watercolor projects did in my first year so I might implement my knowledge with those into this project as well.
BRAINSTORMING
PAPER
1) Folding from right.
2) Folding from left.
3) Ripping in strips from right.
4) Ripping in strips from left.
5) Rolling from right.
6) Rolling from left.
7) Tile pieces from right at angle.
8) Tile pieces from left at angle.
LIQUID/INK
9) Drip from center horizontally.
10) Drip from center vertically.
11) Drip at random.
12) Splat from center horizontally.
13) Splat from center vertically.
14) Splat at random.
15) Sprinkle at random.
16) Paint line down center horizontally.
17) Paint line down center vertically.
18) Paint random lines.
19) Paint in fluid sweeping motions.
20) Sponge at random.
21) Sponge from left.
22) Sponge from right.
23) Filling liquid tank.
24) Draining liquid tank.
OTHER
25) Crosshatching w/ pencil.
26) Crosshatching w/ charcoal.
27) Cubes turning at random.
28) Cubes turning in sequence from right.
29) Cubes turning in sequence from left.
30) Seasalt spreading from center.
31) Seasalt spreading from right.
32) Seasalt spreading from left.
33) Coffee spilling in middle and spreading outward.
34) Coffee blowing off screen left.
STORYBOARDS
OBJECTS
EDIT
Going back and reworking some more ideas to break out of the box a little more. My initial thought process was to try to keep things a little simple. Things I know I can control with stop motion without having too much trouble working with them.
New ideas:
1) I had this idea about cereal. Instead of eating it away, I would do it backwards by starting out with a shot of white milk and then placing the cereal inside, most likely chocolate cereal like cocoa pebbles or cocoa puffs. Then it piles so much into each other it blacks out the screen. I could adjust the saturation and the curves in after effects to make it solid black and white looking.
2) Burning paper. Although I wouldn't burn it in the studio. My initial idea is to take a stack of paper and do a process of burning. That way I can take a photo of each paper, making it look like the white was burning away and showing the back paper underneath. Not exactly sure how this will translate in black and white, though.
3) I wanted to play with lights but I couldn't work out how I would do it.
4) Nail polish. I saw an interesting DIY on how to mix nail polish into swirls. I thought mixing black nail polish into white until the white was completely gone, then reversing or inverting it in after effects?
5) Strings and pins. Although I would have to figure out an interesting way to animate it, I was inspired by this photo:
34) Coffee blowing off screen left.
STORYBOARDS
OBJECTS
EDIT
Going back and reworking some more ideas to break out of the box a little more. My initial thought process was to try to keep things a little simple. Things I know I can control with stop motion without having too much trouble working with them.
New ideas:
1) I had this idea about cereal. Instead of eating it away, I would do it backwards by starting out with a shot of white milk and then placing the cereal inside, most likely chocolate cereal like cocoa pebbles or cocoa puffs. Then it piles so much into each other it blacks out the screen. I could adjust the saturation and the curves in after effects to make it solid black and white looking.
2) Burning paper. Although I wouldn't burn it in the studio. My initial idea is to take a stack of paper and do a process of burning. That way I can take a photo of each paper, making it look like the white was burning away and showing the back paper underneath. Not exactly sure how this will translate in black and white, though.
3) I wanted to play with lights but I couldn't work out how I would do it.
4) Nail polish. I saw an interesting DIY on how to mix nail polish into swirls. I thought mixing black nail polish into white until the white was completely gone, then reversing or inverting it in after effects?
5) Strings and pins. Although I would have to figure out an interesting way to animate it, I was inspired by this photo:
6) Newspaper and ink, maybe a super close shot of folded up newspaper coming out of plain white paper and then the letters mixing into each other as ink is splashed onto them. Then reversing this in after effects so it looks like the black blotches turn into letters and then seep into the white paper.
7) Black crayons on white or white crayons on black. Melting the crayons with a hairdryer onto the paper to give a cool melted effect. The black on white one could be reversed in after effects.
8) Liquid magnets/ferrofluid and milk. Something I can really play with my manipulating the black liquid with magnets while it forms interesting shapes within the milk.
The two ideas that I really want to try to do are the liquid magnets and the crayons. I ordered a bottle of the ferrofluid on Friday.
EDIT: Its thursday and still no ferrofluid. :( Guess I will have to try the crayons.
FINAL
I feel that even if this was a very interesting process, it isn't very unique looking. And, even if I went about this is a different way of getting this effect, it still just resembles paint dripping. Its kind of disappointing when you have a really interesting, awesome idea and suddenly really annoying circumstances gets in the way. Which is what happened with my liquid magnets not arriving in the mail in time for this project. However, I am proud to say its done and I went through the process. I might even make a few more different ones if I have free time just to have in my files for future use.
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