Experimental Project

After listening to all the sound files for our Experimental project I have decided to go with " Mally". I figured that if I was going to be working with something for the best part of a month I would go with the one that I liked the most. I also find that it gets my thinking whenever I listen to it which I love. I have identified a few points from the piece to help me get started:

• Sounds organic - it flows
• Starts slow and speeds up
• Reminds me of woodlands, the sea crashing on the shore etc at the beginning - then makes me think of a city and someone stuck in the middle of the rush.

I want the animation to grow into the piece at the start, I had a quick attempt with the sand just to get the feel for the medium, I was striving for a siloutte effect something I will have to look into. I found this on youtube which was very interesting:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MDc24K_guI&feature=PlayListp=E5BBC5DFF38DA5AC


Heres a quick attempt by myself:



Continuing with the experinental project I came across this really sweet animation produced by a random student on youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2iDQtE0MFQ

She uses both sand and dirt as a medium to create an awesome silhouette effect. I also loved that it was using a lot of nature, I went outside to try this out myself and then I started thinking of just using loads of parts from the ground. This way I could incorporate some colour and make it more organic, as ever I'm not quite thinking of the animation but of the concept to what it would look like. I'm thinking now of creating a mini scene like a colourful woodlands or something maybe in a 3D environment from parts from the ground. I just played with some stuff I grabbed from outside to just get a feel for it, obviously its all a mess and there is no real sense but it was fun! With the soundtrack I'm going to want to build it up and it will be no were near the speed of this nor the intensity but I got some general ideas out..


Experimental continues....

Before I get on with my project I am going to spend some time looking and Andrew Goldsworthys work as a base for some inspiration. He has done the most amazing sculptures from objects from the outside, I love the colours and the concepts after Derek showing me his work. I really want to base the animation on some of his pieces but animated to the music, this is probably going to be really difficult though but I would love it if what I have in my head I can get out into an colorful organic animation that maintains the feel of the music.


12 Nov - Further Experimenting

Today I went out on the hunt in the park to find material to use for this project with Andy Goldsworthy in mind. I was on the look out for colours that caught my eye and a large variety so I could animate with them. I wanted to look at simulating some of the colour concepts that I had seen in Goldsworthys work and have a play at animating with them.

1. This is from Goldsworthy except his is lot more polished and smoother looking than mine, basically with this I want the circle in the middle to grow in time to the music and the whole thing to rotate and move. 4 - I was playing and as ever I wanted to do the wave breaking in a silhouette, if I combined this with 1 so that this was inside of it after it had moved.
2. I was looking for something similar to the above picture of one of the pieces I had looked at, I found these which I liked even more with the 3 changing colours, however the camera doesn't pick up the richness of them and makes everything seem really bright so I need to play with the camera settings/ lighting. However I love the negative space you can create with these and the flowing of the same colour from leaf to leaf. I want these to be included in my final experimental.
3. If I can find loads of different hues of the colours then I can have this flowing as an animation and then evolving into 1.
I want to make sure the entire thing links up and isn't just a cut to cut .

Here's another quick play, there is no timing its all very fast just to get all the ideas out.

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So I have 3 days to do this experimental, I thought I would just focus on the animation and nail it in this time. However I really didn't think enough. I went out and about this morning to find leaves etc with some colour variation, only to realise it is in fact winter. There is only variations on greens and browns. Brilliant. So its now time to make the best of a bad situation. I've mapped out what I want to occur in the animation to the music, hopefully the studio will be free enough this week to do it here. As ever great time planning....