Final Project: HOST

http://youtu.be/3r7HGolR7g8

A struggle to understand sacrifice, the temptations of power, and what creates bonds.

My second animatic video story! 

I knew from the beginning that I wanted this project to push the boundaries of my first one. I didn't want to do the exact same set-up, so I tried making it a little more text driven, and I also used completely different programs to create the clips (my first used SketchbookPro, and for this one I used photoshop).

Enjoy!

Project 6: Balance

BALANCE

Story of a father finding a balance between the time he spends on work and the time he spends with his daughter. Some frames explore balance as a principle of design.

Project 6: Variety

 VARIETY

A video montage of examples of variety as a principle of design. Variety explores multiple differences in color, texture, shape, size, etc. (and instruments, in this case).

Principles of Design: examples in library

Project 5: Space Animation

I decided to create a frame by frame animation on photoshop. Another student in the class got the OK to do this instead of creating the shapes in Adobe Illustrator, and I felt that I could produce a higher quality animation in a faster amount of time by doing this.

Project 4: Visual and Tactile Texture

VISUAL TEXTURE: Foam mat, owl sculpture, metal startfish ring, sneakers.

TACTILE TEXTURE:

VISUAL + TACTILE TEXTURE COMBINATION: The visual texture reminded me of stone and ancient patterns like those of the mayans or aztecs. So I used the visual texture of the metal starfish ring to create a kirigami temple.

Project 3: Notan Square, Painted Section, Laser Cut

I didn't plan anything before I started. I just hopped right into the project.
Then certain patterns began to appear; specifically the circles and the swirls. I recognized their existence, and I aimed to  make the visual relationship between the two a main theme throughout the project.
There were times when I had difficulty figuring out where to place certain pieces that were close to the corners. I laid them out so I could see different options of reflections, and finally decided that the end result created the best look.

I really enjoyed hearing that my notan square reminded the class of Hugo-esque gears/mist, lost underwater seaweed/city of Atlantis, and other settings of the adventure genre. I thought it looked like the middle of a toxic accident in a factory, or some other sci-fi adventure explosion.

The second part of the project was to select an area of the Notan square to paint. The composition I found was the most pleasing, and it had a nice balance between linear and curvelinear shapes.

The third part of the project was to create a laser cut pattern from a selection in our piece. The shape was simplified in Adobe Illustrator, then the paths were duplicated 100 times and sent to a laser cutter. The diamonds and lines functioned better vertically. Oriented horizontally, the thick implied lines would have weighed the piece down.