Animated Narratives-week12

In week12, we make premises consisting of a character, a situation, and a location, which also contain within it a problem or a question.The theme I would like to review in this week is Time. The premise I use is

 ’A dinosaur is running restlessly in a meteor shower on a grassland.

When meteors hit the floor the  the growth of plants is accelerated .

A meteor hits the dinosaur, the dinosaur ages quickly and becomes fossils in a blink of an eye. ‘

This work examines the idea of time bomb that the focus is on how meteors affect the main character- the dinosaur, and how the dinosaur reacts to them.

The work is going to sit in the field of 2D animation. Clumsy brushstrokes can give a work a special feel. In my imagination, the picture is glamorous and childlike. I will mainly use color blocks to describe the scene and the dinosaur, and use a finer brush to express the time bomb to achieve complex and delicate visual effects.

This work is related to the week 9 watching resources, ‘Satoshi Kon - Editing Space & Time’ by Every Frame a painting. In the film, it shows a work "Ohiyo" that presents the actions of the protagonist by overlapping her movements at different times. Referred to the idea, I want to have different degrees of meteor impact at a certain moment in my work, causing inconsistent acceleration of the time bomb. Let plants and dinosaurs with different growth conditions exist in the picture at the same time.

By examining ‘Satoshi Kon - Editing Space & Time’, I reflected that time can be visualized as continuous actions, overlapping and showing on the screen simultaneously. Thinking through this, I decide to combine the overlapping effect and kaleidoscope effect to create a psychedelic feeling. Explore how the two opposing concepts of visual temporality (representation) and kaleidoscope effect (abstract concept) can be combined and applied.