APD WEEK 2: Play + Time

Xianyao Li - s3875720

       Theme: Play + Time

Context:
After the class, when I started to think about time, gravity is the word that came up first, according to the ‘Gravitational time dilation theory. And I imagined some scenes that can apply this idea, I decided to make a short gif that can repeat over and over. The content is about a tennis player is practice the serve, and two flies are fighting with each other, because their gravities are different, the time around them have different speed, so they moving with different pace as well.

Method:
The process is just like a normal animation-making process, I used the ‘Aseprite’ so that it will become a pixel gif. The only difference is that I need to give the tennis player and flies different moving paces. To do that, I let flies move every frame, simultaneously, the player moves every 3 frames, the result is that the player’s action looks like freeze, flies’ actions are faster a lot.
        

Response:
I am satisfied with the outcome, but it can be better if I can put more effort into it, for example, make the actions smoother, add more animals or objects to compare with others, it can help enhance the idea which is ‘ the greater the gravity, the slower the time flies.

Reflection:
This idea was actually been used in many works, in many fields. We all have the kind of knowledge that, the bigger the object is, the slower the movement will be, maybe we noticed this from those films, animations, and games. The reason why I choose flies to compare with the player is because of the word’ time flies’, it is a kind of work play.

Downloads:

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