change of plans

Now i will be making the digital animation in my own time as Jon(my tutor) wants me to create some in 3 dimensional space as it will be more interesting and more challenging to create rather then a simple animation

So i tried to come up with some kind of mechanism that woulds show different pictures at first i wanted to make it simple and do it it a tip of a comic so I have created this test sample out of clay and the mechanism was created out of a two peaces of hollow block and  two wheals one bigger then the other the small one was also much thicker so after the construction was don't by spinning the small one you would move the bigger one  that was with one opening to look at it where the image was  it worked well but it would be harder to do on bigger scale and also clay shrinks when it drys also it is brittle.

I made a rectangle block out of clay that I cut in half 

Using this modelling toll I cut out two half's of a circle 

then I made more hollow space in the clay blocks with a different toll with a bend in it

I made a cylinder / handle that can be span making the mechanism move i fitted it in the block and made a bigger flat circle and that would be mostly covered by the rectangle

I placed the circle in the hollow space of the rectangle and the put a pice of wire in the middle of it so it would hold in place

Then I covered the top of wire with clay so it is more secured I trying to use tape as a way of connecting the circle and the cylinder but the tape did not stick well to clay (I should now) but I did use a rubber band in the end which worked well so I made a hole in one half of the rectangle where the letters where visible but after the clay dried the mechanism stopped working.

I looked in different ways to put the animation to movement in the 3 dimensional space after talking with Jon (tutor) thought about ropes and old school film machines the but I decided to work with cogs at the end

I decided to create the cogs out of card board and then cover it with plaster bandage to make it tougher I printed a picture of a cog  that i cut out using scissors and a craft knife to cut it out the i draw around it on card board and the cut the cardboard out 3 times and glue them together to make it thicker next step is to cover it  with plaster bandage after that I need make a bigger horizontal cog resembling thing  that would fit the small cog  then I will need to stabilise to horizontal cog in  the box a straight bar attached to the top of the box going through the cog should be enough but if the cog is wobbly I could make it stabilise it by sticking some wire inside the box I also need to make the small  cog be connected to a handle so that it can be span making the construction move



I tryed to free had the cog but I quicly relisided that if i want  to make it  work i need to be more acurate with it

So i printed out this cog shape cut it out with scissors and used craft knife to make it bit more clean on the edges and then I glued the cut out to the cardboard with simple glue so it don't move wail i trace around it

being care full with cutting the shape out do it two more times
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after i got all the cut outs i glued them together and covered them with plaster bandage so the cog is a bit more sold

I used wire to measure out the size of the horizontal cog and used card long cut outs of card board to form a circular shape

At first i used glue to stick it together but it wasn't strong so i used tape to keep it together before i put the plaster bandage on it i forgot to put the line in the middle that I added on later.
 

I need to some sort of holder for the peaces of paper I am thinking of wire and blue tack 

Unit12 Engaging audience with an audience

for this brief I need to

1. understand the audience for a chosen art and design activity
2. Be able to plan and implement art and design activity for an identified audience
3. be able to use evaluation in support of art and design activity for an identified audience

so we have lots of freedom with this brief as we could create work in our are of interest for me its animation and what I want to create for it its a short story I allergy did some design work to wards it the story is going to be ferly short so I have time to finish it and maybe make some changes to it the animation is gonna be appealing to younger audiences but I also want to make it enjoyable for older audience there will not be any dialog in the animation just movement and possibly sound and music




I plan to spent about 2-3 weeks on developing the character and the story and create a story board in the 4th week if I don't make it in 3 weeks then I e would need to work had to complete the animation in about 1 month. 3 weeks animating  the movement and then one week editing but editing should go by quickly so I might have couple more days to make the animation smother.


I will start working on 24 frames per second but it can slow me down drastically so if I will be running short on time I will have to change over to 12 fps. (Change of plans)

I will need to present the animation in 3 dimensional space so

*research
*explore the ways of making a moving machine that can have attached images
*explore different materials to se which will be the best
*make a simple movement   animation on paper and attach it

where am I now

So far I am happy wit my current progress in the course I am happy with continuing with the subject of animation and character design it is a good and effective way of presiding story and events to a viewer the problem is that i have to make them fast witch often leaves them unfinished  as i need to move to next project one solution is to be making short gifs. I guess i am a bit un happy about not being able to work with sculpture and some of other work that is physical and making cool big statues and objects i enjoy doing all that kind of work butt I can't see my self doing something like that as a job same with painting i enjoy it but it is more of a hobby to me but maybe ill be able to make it in to something such as using paintings for back grounds in animations or making a comic with big paintings. To get better with animation and character creation I have learn more about anatomy of human body as well as body of all sorts of animals to make the characters have more natural form. well ill keep working with animation and developing my skills with it as it is something I enjoy doing.

In about 15 years I see my self leaving in a 3 bedroom house where there is a normal room a work room and a chill room to chill in and fill the house with all sort of art paintings and structures and native stuff, for my job i would like to create animations with cool characters and cool story and possibly design some in indie games(I also want people to be more educated about life). In my way there can be all sorts of things that would stop me such as getting out and be appreciated by people
also fear of failure and lack of time. Things that can push me forward to my could would be my determination and not giving up and doing lots of practice and hard work.

To get there i would need to have impressive to show to the employers an get the placement to help me with that i will need to get good grades and it would help if i went to uni and get a better chance of getting a good position or I could start of as a runner and work my way up to a better position Where I can animate but also display my visions to the  audience. To improve my chance to create my ideas i would have to do my personal work in my own time where i can invent new interesting characters and interesting story and maybe make my own animation studio where i would be my own boss. AND MOUST IMPORTANT THING NEVER GIVE UP!!!!!

Metamorphoses ideas

When I saw a candle in my room it made me think of metamorphoses and how the wax melts and reforms transforms in in some think different

I took some pictures of the candle in my room. I crumbled the wax on the edges of the candle to later record it melt to see how it transforms and what happens to it and see how will it influence my ideas and what will be the final out come this is just a idea now
The story with a candle should have a sutle preseason of emotion like happiness for example, where it goes from small flame to big or how the flame continues with out a candle or a candle that walks through darkness and maybe lead some to a colourful nice place or how the wax changes in to something interesting


I thought up of a different story where a rock golem goes through a little water pond and swims to different world or just to set at the bottom of the pond because he is shy. and also i have a idea about a angry mad man who is smashing things up but the a happy woman is happily jumping to wards the angry man to huge him and calm him down and maybe some flowers will bloom around the smashed room.

What I liked about London trip

all of the statues where interesting to me the realistic ones as well as the more abstract one I just like how the are presented in 3 dimensional space. i like the detail in the realistic ones where you can walk up to them ad see all the work that bean put in to it to make it stand out an and be interesting to lock at. in the abstract ones i like how they are resembling human form but  left to interpretation by the viewer and all the interesting shapes in the disrupted and deformed sculptures I also like the different materials used to create the sculptures.

A interesting peace of art with nice dark shades and a spooky feeling i like that the body is normal and the face is absolute disrupted its a small head with one big eye in the middle and wired mouth  

Its just a board with some equation on it i though this was good because it had a sketch book feel of quick thinking and its probably some smart things 

I like the Prerrafaelitas work the paintings whee really nice and and where on a big scale they did reminded me of modern concept work for fantasy games or movies with the way they where presented

its amazing that crystal mines like that actually exist  and are massive however the are poisonous if you are exposed to them for to long its it would be amazing to explore some caves like that  

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I also liked the natural history museum where the there was so many amazing finds and information about prehistoric dinosaurs humans and other stuff the big star way was cool to go up to it had this core looking thing at the top that was glowing red i also enjoyed learning about the natural disasters like volcanos and earthquakes