Monday, December 3, 2007

Adult Animal Alphabet Final





Sorry about the sound error!!!

Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Alphabet Critique 1

Info and Video Coming Soon..

Need Feedback!

Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Revised Adult Animal Alphabet






Feedback Progression

Things to Do:
a) Animal & Sexual Based CONTENT
b) Draw Sexual Animations
c) Test Audio Recordings:
Old Lady......................Quentin
Southern Girl...............Me
Professional Male........Zach

Saturday, November 3, 2007

AAA Anamatic

Adult Animal Alphabet
My anamatic for the final: testing the time, look and feel of my final project!

Sunday, October 21, 2007

Example of Final Idea

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQhwdth1y30

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Revised Treatment for Final Project

TITLE
A Urban Alphabet Booklet

CONCEPT/STORY
My idea for the final feeds from a resource I found on the Internet called the urban dictionary. This dictionary transforms the English language into slang terminology and defines each word and/or phrase. Using the alphabet, I will incorporate this dictionary as an introduction to understanding slang and how it relates to society. As well as visuals, I will form short sentences to illustrate the words usage in conversation. This form of language would be considered unsuitable for formal context, yet appropriate in certain areas in cities. I will use shape layer solids as a separation tool to reveal portions of the composition, until the entirety is made visible. This hidden alphabet book will be very formal in its presentation and overall design. It will also be HILARIOUS!!!

SOUNDTRACK
I thought about using hip-hop beats or music in this piece, however I would not want the audio to become a distraction from the visuals. I believe the visuals are strong enough and audio would only complicate the piece. But it’s a debate??

TREATMENT
This book is basically a moving picture. The books cover will appear on screen, then beginning with A, each letter will produce a word. The page will turn and the words slang definition will be revealed, along with its usage and illustration. This process will begin with A and end with Z.

A= Antelope
B= Bird
C= Canary
D= Donkey
E= Eagle
F= Fish
G= Giraffe
H= Hippoptmous
I= I
J= J
K= K
L= Llama
M= Monkey
N= Nat
O= Ox
P= Pig
Q= Quail
R= Rabbit
S= Shark
T= Turtle
U= U
V= V
W= W
X= XXX
Y= Yellow Jacket
Z= Z

WEBSITE Source
http://www.urbandictionary.com/

Monday, October 8, 2007

Ideas for Final

A Idea:
Three constructed narrative animations.
1. “Trick or Treat” BUD is dressed on Halloween as a robber, but not to trick or treat...its a home invasion! (YOUTH)
2. “Clean Up Your Act” Santa gives BUD a beautifully, decorated Christmas present. What is this mysterious present? SOAP (ADULT)
3. “Tooth Fairy” As an elder person, Bud.....receives money from the tooth fairy at the nursing home when he loses teeth. (OLD)

B Idea:
Alphabet URBAN DICTIONARY
Visual Piece:

Pig an officer of the law
Nookie sex
Boo girlfriend or boyfriend
Cow over-weight person
Green money, weed, emotional action
Fish new inmate in prison
Donkey woman with a fat booty

C Idea:
Childhood Imagination

illustrations and messages drawn onto screen using a brush tool.

Wednesday, October 3, 2007

Tooth Pulling Machine

So my final machine functions as a tooth puller. What do ya think! More Coming Soon....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFHVkqpyvxk

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Revised Photomontage

I changed the ending scenes (Easter) and tried a new approach with the gate. The overall look is more consistent and I am pleased. More Coming Soon...

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

My Machine




My invented machine captures the attention of a man by using monatary values on a keypadded door. Once he pushes the button of his choice, he is bound by rope and a piece of thread attaches to one of his teeth, yanking it out (rope & thread come from door knob). The tooth travels through a maze and finally is realeased into the air. Depending on what button he pushed, that is the amount of teeth that will float in the air until they fall on a tree. This tree disolves the teeth and money appears. itz a Money tree

Machine Artist

Leonardo de Vinci produced some of the most basic machines during his time. "He reasoned that by understanding how each separate machine part worked, he could modify them and combine them in different ways to improve existing machines or create inventions no one had ever seen before."
Check It Out
http://www.mos.org/sln/Leonardo/InventorsToolbox.html

http://www.mos.org/sln/Leonardo/one/one.html

I also found these cool inventions on youtube by Alessandro Ghezzi.it
"The Incredible Machine"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5nmspVOz_Y

Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Semester Research & Photomontge

My research topic in Motion Graphics 1, dealt with the term camouflage. After, revisiting the word list of metaphors, I wanted
to find some way of reappropiating this idea. I thought about how camouflage is a fictional depiction, concealing reality. My
final project for that course was “Camouflaged Beauty,” a piece that took a step-by-step approach, as to what is natural vs. unnatural. I layered make-up onto my face, becoming a fictional being. Using my childhood instinct, I would like to discover fictional cultural traditions; we surround ourselves with in today’s society.

A fiction is described as an imaginative form of storytelling, usually including a plot, setting, theme, and characters. This expressive body of culture exists in several forms: novels, short stories, fables, fairy tales, plays, and poems. Fictions are often perpetuated by parents out of traditions such as Santa Claus or to instill beliefs and values. My goal for this semester is to embark on a journey of defining characteristic of humanity, by creating fictions as an aspect of human culture. By telling stories that a culture believes to be true, I will enhance this interpretation of these events by creating humorous motion fictions.

My first project is a photomontage, in which I collected several images that relate to ideas I have for the semester. This montage has a mass quantity of holiday related themes such as Halloween, Christmas, Easter, and the Tooth Fairy. This assignment was a review of the transformation properties within After Effects. Illustrating the direction my research will focus on for this semester, I wanted to explore abstractional, informal techniques of creating art.

Tuesday, September 4, 2007

Intervene Film Revised

Using Mac the Ripper & MPEG Stream Clip, i tried the Paint & Masking tool on a video clip. I LOVED the Masking tool, yet found the painting tool somewhat difficult. I've never used a video clip in AE, so learning how it works in the program (along with paint) will require extra work on my part. The task is to INTERVENE, on a video clip of my choice!

So, i finally choose this movie clip in which a female was falsely accused of murder. My goal was to establish the idea of isolation & idenity.

Courses Technical Focus

~Parenting

~Audio (settings & features)

~Film Strips (I wanna do more, like last semester)

~3-D Objects...function...

~How to Select Certain parts of a chapter in MPEG

~Use of Text in films

~How to Code Video as a Internet Source

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQ72jo7JcDk


My goal for this semester is to figure out different ways of creating interesting videos, by using found materials. Narratives, poetic expression, text & still photos, instructional films, etc. My AE videos are usually cartoonish, maybe taking a different approach by trying new effects & being open to new ideas.

Wednesday, August 29, 2007