complete part

camera Fix 11/20

color test movie

Color test

color test

pixframe-test03

                                                              Test03

pixframe-test02

                                                                    Test02

Pixframe-test01

                                                                     Test01
                                        My first test of the forward part of project.

second version Storyboard

1.pale, brightly room full with pixel-like square
(would like to create some fog here)
2.Some one open the door
   Cut on the motion
3.Closer camera
4.He looked around
5.Found there is a drawer with handle
6.He walked closer to open the drawer
7.Out side the room
8.Camera zoom out, the scese turned into low quality image.
9. the low quality image turned into galaxy, which is also constituted of pixels.
10.The galaxy turned into high quality one.
11.Camera zoomed out and we find that that's a person's eyes.
12.The camera kept zoomed out and we can see the man's face and body.
13.The camera moved behind the man and followed him.
14. The man walked to a brightly room and the scene fade out.

Mavis_Squash and Stretch PDF file

This is my link of PDF file.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B9Mvx7JJqOCoWnpwSmJBcnE4UDQ&authuser=0

Omelette-Squash & Stretch

Omelette-Squash & Stretch 

Mavis 

  

https://vimeo.com/65107797

  "Omelette" is made by Madeline Sharafian, who is a third year student in Calarts and she wants to show how meaningful it is to make food for someone you love. The story is about the dog which makes the food for the exhausted man comes home after work. 

 

 Squash & Stretch is used to depict exaggerated animated motion. It makes the motion larger than life, rather than more swift, realistic, and sometimes unnoticed in passing observation. It's a sense of weight and flexibility and indicates the rigidity of the material. 

 

 It's by far the most important and one of  the 12 principles in traditional animation.To explain this principles, you can see the image below, the left side shows a ball bouncing with a rigid, non-dynamic movement. However the right side is "squashed" at impact, and "stretched" during full and rebounce. 

 

  When a person smiles, the shape of the face is determined by the movement of muscles underneath a layer of skin. During a smile, with the widening of the mouth and jaw, it does not. The object is simply displacing its matter into the stretch shape. The most important rule to squash and stretch is that no matter hoe squash or stretch out an object gets, it's volume remains constant! 

 

  I chose three parts of the animation to show how great is it to use the squash and stretch. When the dog falls,  his body stretch because of the gravity. When it reaches the floor, his body absorbs the impact and force not only transfering but also disturbing it out of the shape.  

 

 

 

  Squash and Stretch often cooperates with Exaggeration. These two principles play a great role in character animation. 

  To sum up, I want to apply the Squash and Stretch in my animation in the future. Depending on the plots of my project, I may change the level of the Squash and Stretch. But I do want to observe more and play with this principles. 

 Reference:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squash_and_stretch

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12_basic_principles_of_animation

http://www.evl.uic.edu/ralph/508S99/squash.html

http://animation.about.com/od/faqs/f/Why-Is-Squash-And-Stretch-Important-To-Animation.htm

http://animation.about.com/od/glossaryofterms/g/squashstr_def.htm

Response of the Winter Day

http://anilinkz.com/fuyu-no-hi-winter-days


Winter Days(冬の日Fuyu no Hi)

It's a Japanese film directed by Kihachiro Kawamoto. The creation of the film also followed the traditional collaborative nature of the source material. This film is made of several sequences which are all under a minute.

"Accustomed as I am to extreme poverty, I still feel sorry for myself. Suddenly remembering the master of mad verse who traveled in this province long ago, I wrote...."
The main character in this film traveled to a small province to visit the master of mad verse. He walked in the forest and kept listening the tree through a small device. 
He walked to a tree which was leaves were falling down. It seemed like he observed the tree and slightly knocked on the tree. Then the woodpecker came.

This man looks like have the power to cure other people, including trees. So that the wood pecker came the eat the warm inside of the tree. Also he helped remove the itch from the master. In the end the man grabbed the cloth and looked at the master through it. He exchanged the hat with the master. He worn the hat with the rip and left.

This story reminds me the doctrine of buddism which claims that people should sacrifice themselves to help people. Although the man came to visit the master, he cured the master and gave him his hat. In the end the hat was blew away and disappeared in the distance. For me, it looks like it's implying the continue of the doctrine of the buddism.