APD_WEEK2_PLAY&TIME

Theme:

Play and Time

Context:

For this week’s task, as fa as I know time just a measuring unit. We can’t see and touch the time. So how we can prove that time exist. What is Dimension and how to identify it. For the research, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimension

there have 1,2,3 dimension. When we say 4 dimension, time was added to the discussion. This dimensional space is very interesting to me, and I'm not going to discuss it like a physicist. I just wondering, how we can see the time ? I was really inspired by this https://www.readersdigest.ca/home-garden/tips/how-to-tell-the-time-without-clock/, how we can talk about Time without using timer.

Based on https://uxmag.com/articles/its-about-time , I was going to think about time visualization. In short, the time gone of each second is expressed through different animation forms, just like rhythmic movement. We walk for a second at a time, and it's like a timer. Of course we can't keep walking at the same pace, but that's just one example. Time goes forward and never stop, no matter what you do.

So I’m going to put the idea of visualizing time into animation. I will try some simple graphic animations to express the elapse of time.

Method:

With this idea, I’m going to use After Effects as a tools to express. I expressed the same opinion through three cases. Each movement of these figures is exactly one second. For example, the one where the basketball bounces, each bounce of the basketball is one second apart. This visualizes the time. Each second of time is represented graphically, rather than mechanically, like a clock.

I got to the idea of recording every second of time by changing the keyframe time of the motion of these objects so that were the same as the real time flow.

Response:

This is a simple and immature concept of time visualization.When I made this GIF animation, I only used some simple graphics, mainly to express the idea of time visualization.

Therefore, based on this concept, it is possible to improve the aesthetics and make better animation to express time lapses.This is a idea that given the diversity of the way clocks showing time. it's not just the hour hand, the minute hand, the second hand, or the changing in numbers on an electronic watch. This can make the time changes more interesting and vivid through animation.

So based on the background of animation. I think about how to express the time lapse more attractive and funny.