Week 07
RotoscopingThis weeks animation revolves around the technique of claymation. The beginning of this post will be focused around a few rotoscoped animation analyses to give me a bases of what people have done with it in the past.
These two below both deploy a basic concept of rotoscoping, while I definitely appreciate the thought and hard work gone into such an animation, there is something lacking in terms of creativity for me. The hard work of rotoscoping can be easily seen in "A Scanner Darkly" where according to the director, Richard Linklater, filming took just 23 days whereas the rotoscoping took 18 months to complete.
Below is a screenshot from a rotoscope animation, the rest of the animation is actually in the traditional rotoscope animation style but this part at the beginning is more interesting. Here they have used a more abstract style for rotoscoping the man on a skateboard which only uses the video footage as a template of which to express themselves rather than a template of which to mimic the footage in drawing.
This rotoscope is a bit more creative, here the creator has used the original video footage as a foundation of which to draw over and that's exactly what they have done by adding several new elements which I can only speculate were not in the original footage. My intention for my rotoscope is a bit different though as I wont be drawing over my character but simply drawing over him with a different style of line work.
Animatic 01
Over the weekend I took pictures of my brother in a fight sequence, the idea here is to rotoscope in a low frame rate but then add inbetweens that are free hand and more abstract. So far I have done the basic rotoscoping. The intention also is to have a fight scene in the middle where the protagonist leaps into the air, turning into a smoke like character, and beating away foes before landing back on the ground in his human form. The whole middle part will be free hand. I am also going to experiment with how I do the inbetweens, it would be nice to add some colour and I feel this would be the most impactful way of doing it.
Above is my original rotoscope but I was not enthused by it at all. I appreciate the time required for rotoscoping and I acknowledge it as a storytelling method but visually, it just doesn't appeal to me that often. That is where the image below comes in, I tried using horizontal lines which I think gives a more interesting appeal and makes it look a bit less like a traditional rotoscope. I will experiment today with a couple more variations of how I can trace over the character.
Feedback
After a talk with the lecturer today, There has been a focus on the experimental side of things with the rotoscoping transitioning into hand drawn animation and back again. I am also going to need to get pictures of my "actor" jumping up so I can use it as reference for my protagonist jumping up and turning into a smoke character while fighting in the air.
Plan
My plan for the rest of this project is to leave myself around 3 weeks before submission to tidy up all my animations and compile them together into a mini showreel. This means I will be doing a couple more new animations after this one.
Claymation
The lecturer mentioned I could do claymation as my next animation, this almost immediately gave me a general narrative idea which I want to get down on this blog post so its here for next week. The idea is that there are these oddly shaped monsters and the end consists of one of the monsters melting, thus, revealing an apple inside, this is when the other monsters begin to replicate what happened to the first so they can reveal their inner fruit, "I believe that inside every one of us is a fruit waiting to come out" will then come up on screen....then the last monster reveals a vegetable inside of him...which the fruits are not too happy about so they murder him. "he's not good enough for the food waste bin, dump him with the other trash". So that is my general narrative for next weeks animation. I'm thinking also that they throw him in a blender and we see the vegetable afterwards dragging its mangled body across the kitchen top.
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