Month: June 2020

Some update of our project. Finally we decided to combine digital drawing and do background with stop-motion. We plan to do the stop-motion when we are able to access in Uni.

The style frames that Sin made which is really beautiful. We decided to use paper cut and cotton to make the background. We think paper cut and cotton have a different texture which is suitable to express the different environment. I made a papercut stop-motion work during my BA so I think I kinda familiar with this style.

Also, we developed the analysis and design of the main character. This character is a paper cut figure which I think is much easier than the human character so the animating work may be much easier. I think the most challenging part must be the shot of background because excepting some background design made with the digital software, there is nothing we can do to develop it.

When we finished the storyboard, its kinda like a music video shows in the club. So I decide to do the music first. I divided the music into three parts. At the start of our project, I prefer not to add the music, with only the sound effect of the birdsong and wings moving will be enough. The music will start when the bird jumps off the platform and fly into the unknown. This part is very excited and with a very quick rhythm which reminds me of movie whiplash. I extremely love the drumbeat in that movie so I want to do something similar. But electric style is also suitable for the project I think. So I try them both in the Garage band(music-making application on iPad) and I find that the drumbeat is so strong and I couldn’t find a suitable melody for it. So I go with the style of the electric songs. A very deep bass sound also has a very strong effect and it works well with the drumbeats which are not that fast.

This is the drumbeats I chooses for the basic tone.

This part will end til the bird reached the bright entrance. I think the music of this part is playing in a wild and soft place which will have the echo. So I chose this melody for the base tone.

The last thing is finding the suitable melody for these two basic beat and melody.

When I edit the animatic with the finishing music it’s really a good experience. When I arrange the pictures to fit with the music, the animatic shows strong rhythm. It’s Different from the projects I did before, we usually add music when the animatic finished. I think it really depends on what kind of animation you do. The link of the animatic: https://vimeo.com/427666651 password: MACA

These are the first thoughts from me after a meeting of our group.

I was thinking about the character flying in a big black tunnel, the character moves dynamically and the background as well. And everything in this work is the geometric shape and in a bright colour. It’s very happy for me that our group keep this ‘tunnel’ idea. Maybe because of the ‘abstract’ title we got, things seem easier for us to design and create. It doesn’t have to be very logical and we could add different shapes into it.

And here is the ver 2 storyboard that natalia finished. Everything becomes more clear and the whole structure of the story was decided.