This is a test we did to test out are walk cycle
to see if it was possible and good news it was we know now we can move the jar
now the next step is to see what a running cycle will look like and also give
it a more dominant walk at the moment it almost seams like it is swaying side
to side now we need to do it in a way it has a more dominant walk and all so
see what different size jars will do
This one I have found I discovered a while
back whiles doing my sonic light drawing commotion brief they are called Making Future Magic! And they are an advertisement agency I have
talked about it before but I really like the videos they produce some of there
stuff is completely left field in the way on how creative they are hear are
some of there work
At this moment in time me and jack have a
good idea on what we are doing now and are idea is quite solid, subconsciously
me and jack batman fans have some what recreated a scene from batman begins, iv
bin trying to find it but no luck but let me refresh your memory its the scene
when Bruce wane first becomes batman and he is in the shipping yard stopping
some criminals and he is sneaking around the crates being stealthy making small
noises left right and center to creep the villains out and then attacks
And this is what me and jack are trying to
achieve in this stop motion
When starting a new project
I always try to stay away from stop motion I always say stop motion is a long
and tedious process but more I try to get away from it I still end up doing it
and enjoying it for example my sonic brief, pop up college promotion video and
now my latest one mayo police, through out the process YES the process is long painful
tedious tiring but the end thing is always rewording especially with mayo
police, there was a lot of tricky shots and a lot of thing went wrong but we
managed to plow thru it and I am quite happy with the finial out come, whiles
doing it me and jack wonted some tips of stop motion experts so I emailed, rang
and emailed again to the Chapmen Entertainment, unfortunately no reply but in
the future if I don’t do a stop motion I still wouldn’t mind going to see them
so I will keep trying, on the other hand jack try to communicate to a stop
motion company in Manchester but unfortunately they didn’t reply nether, all
though stop motion is a tricky field to work in I am definitely interested and
would definitely do it again
When we went to Poland last
week it was running side by side with the project we are working on, which is a
stop motion peace that is based around world war two so it has to look old and
unconditioned street ,a nice thing
about the visit to Poland most of the buildings were exactly like the buildings
we needed to refer to when making are street scene it was nice to get the feel
of the building up close so when we began to create the set we can at least
under stand the style of the buildings im not saying the building in
Poland were grimy it was the style of buildings were looking, some of the
buildings we found had some nice architecture and all most look like buildings
from what you see in world war two photos
After coming back to this
blog a coup weeks after when we have created the set I don’t think we would of
achieved it with out looking at the buildings up close,
When we went to Poland last
week we visited 2 studios , unfortunately they weren’t moving image studios,
they were graphic influenced, despite of this the work they produced was quite
creative and fun out of the 2 studios the one I preferred the most was the
first one we went to which was called Mill studio it was a small studio with 4
members of staff , the work they produced was quite nice with in it was a mix
of computer graphics and hands on photography, it seamed like they properly
understood there audience for instance one of there projects was to create a
small booklet for children to explain the operations they might face, the book
they made was nice in its self but one of there original ideas they had was to
use a form of paper that was easy to color in for the children to better under
stand the booklet and the operation
Another nice thing that was
nice and don’t really hear in other studio but I think this because there new
in the industry, is that they were explaining problems they faced like creating
contracts, creating things for friends, explaining on what to show in a job
opportunity, and how to show it,
They other studio we went
to was called Para Studio nice thing about this studio they created a nice stop
motion peace and for there first attempted it was pretty good but the problem
was when we was asking question about it there was a bit of a language barrier
so it was hard to get answers,
A while back we visited a gallery in
Manchester called whitworth art gallery the expedition that was shown at that
time was an expedition called dark matters, shadow, technology
They was a wide range of interesting peace
of work the first one I was drawn to was a interactive sculpture that was made
up of hundreds of small wooden stakes that where cut at an angle and was
attached to a camera, the camera was used as a motion detector and when an
object was past in front of it the angled peace of wood arranged them selves to
portray the object all most like a mirror, the reason why im attracted to this
peace is im quite interested on how things work and how the mechanism works on
the in side and this peace is so nice and elegant that the knowledge of the
making of it might ruin the esthetics of it
As we exited the gallery we walked through
a room with a huge projection screen almost like a cinema screen it was projecting
a snow camera which was a camera that projected thousands / millions of white
dots, the white dots where attracted to the light like the lighter parts of the
face lighter parts of you body and the white dots clotted to gather and revealed
almost simple shaped silo wet of the person
Last week when we visited Liverpool for the
zee expedition we also visited Liverpool Tate gallery, it wasn’t really engaging
as it is normally, I think we just mist an expedition or we when just before
one but I did find some hidden gems that I found really interesting the first
one I found was a moving sculpture it consisted of a bunch of tools like hammer’s,
saws, screw drivers, motors and so on when you pressed the button they begin to
interact with each other all most like a domino affect so when the motor starts
up the saw starts to move side to side and raises the hammer and begins to tap
the metal and the effects keep repeating. I like the mechanics of how thing
work and in the past I have opened things up to see how they work but this
peace is quite nice in the way its open and reveals the mechanism , its quite
interesting in the way the each object relies on each other to make it move and
also the irony of using the tool to create the sculpture, “unfortunately my memory
card is not revealing any images but I will keep trying to find out the name of
the peace ” another peace that I thought was interesting I know it has bin done
a million times but I think it has a lot of potential it is a sculpture of a
box with mirrors on the inside and holes so u can see in and it’s the
illusion of seeing infinity and I think
that’s the reason of potential the depth of how far you can see and this could
be quite nice in an video.
