Third semester- Plan for motion graphics

By Gurtej Kalsey

Gurtej Kalsey-Ideas for my major project in third semester

Direction section

With this work, I intend to explore the possibilities relating character and environment using animation and motion graphics.

This idea is essentially to examine the linkages and relationships between space and character. For e.g.: Green background with a green chameleon but when the chameleon opens her mouth the tongue is of maroon color.

Focus of the work is to understand the relation of the character and the environment with through motion graphics.  This means to examine traditional graphic techniques (color, symmetry, contrast, perspective, etc.) of image making within an animated context.

The idea will be expressed in the form of small clips depending on the idea and it will be further used in making the showreel.

When this idea will be finished the work will be developed the concept through an exploration of short, interstitial motion graphic works that express graphic concepts. 

Argument/Rationale/Gap section

The reason I am doing this work is to understand how to relate animation with traditional graphics and on the same time I want to understand the relation between character and the environment as it is necessary for all kind of work.

If successful, the work will exhibit excellence in developing the relation between the character and the environment and how each other shows their impact for the changes between them.

My work will be different from existing work because it shows the real thing which I want to show, like previously I was working on experiments but this time I am myself doing experiment on how to link animation with the traditional principles of graphics in order to show the relation between character and the environment.

Context Section

Other similar work is not found yet by me as there are so many things done with line, pattern etc. but it is done with the lines or effects in after effects but in my case I will try to give it a shape of a character or a meaningful object to show traditional graphic concepts.

Other work that deal with this concept and ides is channel 4 idents and many sought of things have been tried on after effects but not in a way of showing relationship between character and the environment as it is only done with the lines and the basic concepts. So, what new I am doing is that by introducing character or an object I am showing its relationship with environment which further used to express traditional concepts like line, pattern etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8YOFZ5T4XE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z024sPm36RE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYWGWATVWVI

Examining the context, I can see that I am modernizing the things for showing the traditional graphic concepts as I am going further from simple to more advance and understandable ideas and techniques.

I admire the static motion which remain continuous from starting till end. I want that continuity in my work but in a different way as it needs to be the part of my character and environment relationship. I want it to change from simple to more advance by using it as a motion graphic with the character and environment relationship in that. My original contribution is that I am expressing traditional graphic concept in a more understandable way by putting character and by expressing its relationship with the environment.

Method Section

I am going to make small clips that will help in showing the traditional graphic concept like line, pattern, color etc. and I will make it by putting the character with the environment but by showing in different style so that it can complete the graphic concepts individually.

In order to express the concept, I have chosen to work in MAYA AND CINEMA 4D as I want to model or design the character and the environment and animate it and then export it in cinema 4d to work on it graphically and give it a finishing look.

My workflow and method will allow for the best expression of the idea because I am making simple looking thing into more advanced and more understandable thing. So, I think my choice is best as I am working on simplify things so that it can be understand properly and can solve my purpose of understanding the character and environment relationship as well as my purpose of learning and exploring the motion graphics.

My Idea for Motion Graphics:

1)Butterfly eaten up by flower.

2)Mouse gets scared and eats the cat.

3)Frog jumps on the leaf in pond and get scared by the splitting dance of the flower

4)Freezing dog took up the warm clothes of his happy master and left him freezing.

5)Colorful Chameleon catches the insect with his tongue and color of his body gets drained on the floor.

6)angry Lion suddenly starts dancing in front of his prey.

7)Athlete throw the javelin and it get hit on the bumps of a lion and he gets fade off after hearing the roar.

8)Person drinking water in the hot weather suddenly gets freeze.

9)Cat get scared by the robot toy.

10)Child playing with the whiskers of the lion

11)Cat doing makeup sitting in front of the mirror.

12)Person tries a lot to sit on the chair but fails

13)Painter doing the painting by taking the colors from the chameleon.

14)Scared zebra gets his body color exchanged with lion.

15)Four monkeys driving a motorcycle and the person is running behind them.

16)Flock of birds covered the roaring lion with their shit.

17)Dancing girl suddenly fall in the pond

18)Dog gets irritated by his master and eats him

19)Elephant is riding on the back of the person.

20)A flying person suddenly realize that he is lying on the bear.

21)Child is carrying his tired mum in a pram.

22)Child is teaching his father and scold him

23)Ant is doing weight lifting and challenging the elephant

24)Person sit on the branch and cut it down and then realize his mistake when he fell down.

25)Person flying in the sky and smiles while opening the parachute but fails to do so.

26)Snake Tries to catch the prey but fails as it was fake.

27)Crow looks taller than the flamingo as he put the legs made up of wood so as to catch the pray from the height as the flamingo do.

28)Flamingo catches fish and suddenly she realized that she is standing upside down and she drowned under the water.

29)Singing bird gets distracted by the singing crow.

30)One changes itself into many other numbers

31)Scared deer eats the lion.

32)Human carrying the cart and horse is sitting on the cart and eating grapes.

33)Frog jumping on the ground and ground color changes with every movement of frog

34)Flower cutting into pieces on the sound of the guitar playing nearby

35)Butterfly gets it color exchanged with the object on which it sits.

36)Mike gets covered with the colorful cream and converted into ice-cream

37)Paper turns into various shapes on the sound of the violin.

38)Flying house fly eaten by chameleon who gets the color of the room in which it is sitting

Which make it invisible.

39)Person trying to pull the plant from roots and get sucked by the land.

40)Cat making fun of dog by sitting on the height where dog cant reach.But suddenly she falls.What happened?

41)Flying saucer is contolled by dog through remote control.

42)Dog playing with sand suddenly get eroded by the high tide of sea.

43)Rope is dancing on the sound of flute.

44)Shark tries to eat the small fish gets eaten up by the small fish.

45)Rose bud opens it petal when the sunlight fall on it but sudddenly realise that it was a trap set by firefly.

46)Rainbow shows as the candy eaten up by child.

47)Person fires the bullet get deviated through wall and hit to his own bump.

48)Flower is flying due to heavy wind but the dog near by is blowing it through his mouth.

49)Road gets changed into the disco floor and people start dancing on it

50)Birds with same feather flock together-Bird sit on a wire,seeing her sitting many birds join her.Suddenly fat bird came and wire gets bend and electric current comes in that wire.

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