Further Thoughts on project 2 - Inspiration from Sculpture

I found a range of sculptures yesterday that are made from man-made materials such car parts, tyres, etc as well as some obvious examples such as sand and wood carvings.

Natural

I wondered about maybe using an animated world, characters and story that revolved around the  'crafted' feel of this artwork. I especially feel the sand sculpture route might be an alternative route to adapt the 'jabberwocky' taking it out of it's forest habitat to retell the poem in another natural landscape with new rules.


Man-made

This is what the search for sculptures eventually led onto and felt there was a lot of design possibilities already.

I could:

1. Use one man-made example to stylise animation of Jabberwocky

2. create animation or game based on nature turning into these forms as result of years of polluting world so nature has adapted to this

3. A futuristic world with these sort of beings created with these materials

Further thoughts on project 1 - The Jabberwocky

I keep returning to the idea of perhaps using The Jabberwocky as a starting point as it is a fairly short poem and has a lot of fantasy and characters laid in. I was thinking of maybe a contemporary version, either brought up to date or futuristic but still retaining the context of what the poem is. Below, I have included the original poem and some examples of adaptation that already exists.

JABBERWOCKY

Lewis Carroll

(from Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, 1872) `Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
  Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
  And the mome raths outgrabe.



"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
  The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
  The frumious Bandersnatch!"
He took his vorpal sword in hand:
  Long time the manxome foe he sought --
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
  And stood awhile in thought.
And, as in uffish thought he stood,
  The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
  And burbled as it came!
One, two! One, two! And through and through
  The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
  He went galumphing back.
"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
  Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
  He chortled in his joy.


`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
  Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
  And the mome raths outgrabe.     

 

Transcription Introduction

What is required for this Unit

Part 1: A Transcription

Q.

In an artistic context, what is the definition of the word ‘Transcription’?

A.

example, a piece of music being visualised as a music video or a book being imagined

as a film.

Transcription’ describes a process of interpretation from one source to another. For

Task:

transforming an abstract source into a visual form – For example this could be:

You are commissioned to create a transcribed piece or work of your choice,

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Music to Music Video

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Music to Animated Short

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Text (Novel, Short Story or Article) to Digital Set for Film

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Text (Novel, Short Story or Article) to Digital Set for Game

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Text (Novel, Short Story or Article) to Character Design for Game

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Text (Novel, Short Story or Article) to Character Design for Film

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Text (Novel, Short Story or Article) to Animated Short

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Poem to Animated Short

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Artwork / Painting to Game

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Information or Data (History, Science or Art) to Documentary Film

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The outcome for the project will vary depending upon the type of work chosen, however

the piece should be of an appropriate length (1 – 3 minutes).

Information or Data (History, Science or Art) to Educational PackageNo ‘Epics’!

Supporting Work 1: A Making of…

that illustrates each stage of your ‘pipeline’.

You are asked to produce a ‘making of..’ document

Supporting Work 2: A Technical Paper.

you are asked to produce a document that illustrates one aspect of your technical

research and development. This could be the evolution on an effect, a model, or shader /

texture.

In order that others may explore your findings

Demo Reel:

one element of your final piece and present it as show reel content. For example, this

could be model, an animation, or visual effect,

In order to begin the process of creating a demo reel you are asked to takeBlog:



Intial Thoughts

• I quite like the idea of game as something different to challenge myself for this project
• Music as inspiration
• Inheritance Cycle - Eragon Saga
• Demonata Series - Darren Shan
• Jabberwocky

These were just some rough ideas I had in the begining but have later developed on from this with futher thoughts of what I could do.
You are asked to maintain your blog for the duration of the ten week project.

@Alan - Labels to check through

I have set up three labels for you to check through and incase this is not clear then below are the three labels and what they contain

Narrative MAYA - Maya tutorials completed for this unit

Year 2 Narrative Movie Reviews - Reviews completed for this unit

Narrative - All work I contributed for Group Project

This is just to explain clearly where the relevant things are for the Narrative Unit

Cartoon Character Part 3 - Skinning

Part 1 Creating Joints

Part 2 Binding

Part 3 Shirt and Arms

Part 4 Trousers

Part 5 Shoes

Part 6 Head

Maya - Animating an Action Part 4 - Converting Keys (Intial Conversions)

Three Promotional Stills at 300dpi

Final Poster

Final Making Of Presentation

Final Making of Attack of the Robot Spiders

CD Artwork (Group)

@ Dayle and Sean - Please feel free to comment to give me your opinions also if you want case artwork as well, I have only done the CD so that I can print it up.

Poster Designs

@Dayle and Sean - Three variations of a similiar idea, as with the title page, let me know which one you prefer or if you are not happy with this design.

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Playblasts of animated scenes

I have worked on the elevator scene and the Rick out scene where he picks up a sound on his boom mic.

Final Making Of Title Page

Following Sean's Feedback this is the title page as it stands.

@ Sean - Is this what you meant as a compostion?

Lighting Tests 1

These were just some experiemental lighting tests I did the other day, these feel a bit bright so will need to decrease the intensity and sort out what we want for the renders.

The texture on the ground was also a trail and WILL NOT feature in the final animation

Title Page WIP

I have also worked on a possible title page for the making of

@ Dayle and Sean - If you could also let me know your thoughts on these designs, I have experimented with one layout and text font as I wanted to see if any of these would work. I quite like the text for 'The Attack of the Robot Spiders' that I used but please feedback and let me know your thoughts also

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Making Of Document (WIP)

This is just a work in progress starting to combine the work

@ Dayle and Sean - What do you think so far, I decided on a simple background that I thought might work obviously I need to edit the contents page and page numbers but need to figure that out. If you feel something doesn't work at this stage then please feedback or I will assume it's fine and carry on as it is.

Making of Attack of the Robot Spiders

Extra Environment Details

To help speed the process along I have created a control console for the lift scene and some variations of wires to hang in the abandoned corridor.

Control Console (Based on design used in the animatic)

Wire Type A

Wire Type B

Wire Type C