APD Week 3 Play & Time

Theme: Play & Time

Video link:  

          https://vimeo.com/527735132 

          https://vimeo.com/527739306  

Context:

The theme of this week is play and time. when I am asked about the relationship between time and play, my first think is some racing games, such as cycle racing or music games. However, unlike what I thought, we enjoyed a variety of works in class, which inspired me a lot. What impressed me most is a person made up of different videos, a very creative work about the loops. Because of this work, my work this week also contains similar elements. This week, I made two animations, a stop-motion animation and a 2D animation, both of which have the same motion design, but I made them move in different ways to reflect the difference of time.

Method:

In order to achieve my goal, I first designed the motion, which are a very simple cycling scene. Painting style is pixel style, because I have never tried this style. After seeing Sher (Jingjia Zhang)'s pixel style works completed in the first week, I asked her how to draw pixel style.

Then, I made the completed movement into a usual pixel style animation, and added some special effects. The other is much more complicated. First, I made a manual power generation set, because I hope this work can be interesting and practical at the same time.

The next step is to stick all the printed movements on the handle to form a circle. When the handle is turned, the circle will rotate, making the picture move and generating electricity.

Response:

The design of the whole painting style refers to Sher, who also teaches me how to make pixel style animation. In addition, I also refer to the pixel animation of a French animator Kokorokeke. His works are characterized by simple lines but high fluency, relaxed and enjoyable style and addiction. What's more, the tool he uses is not a traditional digital board, but a DSI . It's drawn through the note taking software in it, which also makes me feel very creative.

Reflection:

Finally, I successfully produced two videos, although there was a gap with my plan. As for my stop-motion animation, I miscalculated the speed of turning the handle. At the speed of turning the handle to generate electricity, I can't see the picture on the handle clearly. Therefore I can only produce it by combine two video.

References:

Kokorokeke : http://k-eke.tumblr.com/ 

Sher: APD week 1 2021- self portrait | Master Of Animation, Games & Interactivity (magistudio.net)