Stock Motion

I want my animation to be created using stock motion, I want it to be a series of abstract shapes.

MUTO

This is one of my favourite pieces of animation to music, its ambiguous and some bits are quite unusual creating monstrous creatures. The music follows the story of it completely. I am also looking into creating a very abstract animation using patterns and shapes. 

Three Words 

The track is an interesting collection of sounds with a distinct sound of a wagon or train on its tracks. I found this sound really quite eerie, whether that was the intention I am not sure however my emotion when listening to it was that it was almost a sound building up to some sinister ending. I used the word soothing because although it is sinister it also has an element of peacefulness. The sounds used together compliment each other and with no huge climax to the piece it carries on at a steady pace creating quite a relaxing atmosphere. However the words sinister and soothing contradict each other but I think this describes the piece well, its a contradiction in emotions. The word tranquil just elaborates on the soothing element. 

 

Looking at animations I came across Les Triplettes De Belleville, a French animation that uses music and sound more than dialogue to tell the story. This scene in particular is about a woman who goes on a journey to find her lost son and is under a bridge. The sounds of things in the background are barges and ships and boats but the focus is about her feeling quite alone. This reminded of my sound track, the wagon in the distance is similar to this scene. 

Print to Pixel 

El Divisadero 

Chris Watson 

Starting this project was extremely challenging as I missed the whole first week of induction workshops and lectures because of being ill and in hospital. So catching up over Easter was really difficult. But after emailing and asking peers I soon understood the brief as best as I could and jumped straight in by listening to my piece of music, A LOT. 

The piece I got was very eerie, it provoked a very 'horror movie' atmosphere with a wagon rolling on its tracks and the slow noises floating in the background. It was creepy and dark when I listened to it.

I started to jot down some general words that described what I could hear and some of the emotions it provoked.

Although it was eerie and I found it sinister there was also something quite soothing about it. Like the sort of sounds you'd hear in a day spa or on them machines that play music to send you to sleep. There was definitely a therapeutic aspect to the music track.  

After watching some YouTube videos I found a documentary, It is Christ Watson explaining his process when creating his tracks. It explains how this is an art form and he uses mostly natural sounds by going out travelling with his equipment to various locations and focusing on sounds. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOkvUGND4Yw

Illness Strikes

Happens to us all from time to time

Just a quick blog update to say how I unfortunately missed the assessment because of being rushed to hospital. I am still waiting on information on when I will be able to present my work and receive feedback and it be assessed. 

The Final Package

My package was all hand made, using brown recycled card. All the typography and imagery was all hand done. This really links in with my original ideas and inspiration. Using a very organic and natural theme to create a package that reflects me. 

My Design

Net

I still wasn't sure at this point what imagery was going to be on y final package, I like the idea of a tree showing the growth of my design skills and the hand drawn mythography however I still wasn't sure if this was what I wanted my final package to look like. 

These are just some sketched I made of the final package to show and finalise the shape and image of it as well as the final logo.

Final packaging ideas

Bit of a collection of inspiration for my final package