Brief:
To create a 20 - 30 second animation with an allocated piece of music.
We consume motion design all the time, we are constantly coming into contact with graphic design that moves from adverts, to GIFs to movies. Within this breif I will exploring how to control motion and also be incorporating the element of time into graphic design and understanding how time based design works.
In this brief I must respond to the clip of music I have been given emotionally and this animation will be my personal response to audio. I have always loved animations that are perfectly in time with music, and really well in sync. So I will be exploring past animations and how I will combine movement and audio.
The first reactions to animation most people think of first is Disney and Pixar, although this is a great place to start, there is more to animation than that. Since I started experimenting within animation at 15, I have always been more inspired by abstract motion graphics. I started with stop motion and have made quite a few stop motion animations, using my photography skills. But with this project I want to really explore new aspects of animation I have always stayed clear due to the possibilities of risk factors involved. Stop motion is something I have been doing for a while therefore I can really understand it, I love the way I have been able to manipulate real life and control what I want.
The difference between a narrative and a story will be investigated. Literal or illteral? Characters with faces or none at all, how to create a bad guy with symbols and minimalism. How to use colour? can colour depict innocence? The use of little colour? Black and white? what will red mean? How to make something as simple as walking, look real and have characteristics of the personality show through.
Mixed media is something I have recently been incorporating. Mixing illustration, graphical type and shapes and screen printing all in my previous project and I really enjoyed it. I typographic animation is something I have dabbled in quite a while ago now and I enjoyed. I have an obsession with type and that will defiantly be something I want to explore, additionally illustration has been also a route I've been taking recently and have had some nice outcomes with. But how to make my animtion origional will be a huge aspect of the route I take.
So here is my audio clip...
