Wednesday, 27 April 2016

New Idea

Rather than just make a simple mutoscope with a crank, i was thinking i could experiment in making a Rude Goldberg machine. This would add more mechanic pieces and make it more about the making of the mutoscope rather than the animation itself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qybUFnY7Y8w - Music Video using a very advanced Rude Goldberg Machine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_dADLKJ5i8 - Rude Goldberg Machine - Lego

How can my ideas fit into a different disciplines?

Animation
- Rude Goldberg machine
- Mutoscope

Interactive elements

Fine Art

Graphic design
 - any casing on it?

Photography 
- used for the animation itself?
- Burst photography for the slides


A rude Goldberg machine - a machine that makes simple 
tasks extremely complicated

Engineering
- Mechanisms - Cogs/gears - motor? 



Tuesday, 26 April 2016

FMP Research 2

William Heath Robinson
- English cartoonist
- Ridiculously complicated machines achieving simple tasks

Reuben Garrett Lucius 'Rude' Goldberg
- American cartoonist
- Similar themes
- Massively influences adverts and music videos


Wednesday, 20 April 2016

Presentation with Piotr - Ideas

Video Game Cut Scenes
Development from concept to product/character/final piece

FMP Research

The Journey of Animation - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBmzDh6CQZw

- 40.000 BC cave paintings - Used to describe stories showing movement over several images on the sides of caves

- Egyptian mural paintings/carvings

-Leonardo Da Vinci

- Magic Lantern 'Laterna Magica' - 17th Century - No-one knows the original creator but the widely accepted creator is Christian Higgens in the late 1650's

- Improved in 19th Century by using several of them on one sheet of fabric to make mutiple images change in size - Phantasmagoria

- Thaumatrope - 1824 - Two images spun on double sided circular paper

- Phenakistoscope - Joseph Plateau - Slots to see through circle, mirrored image, spin to see the illusion of moving images

- Zoetrope - 1834 William George Horner

- Flip Book - 1868 - 'Kineograph' meaning moving pictures - Primitive but cost to modern form of animation - much smoother than earlier 

- Eadweard Muybridge - 'Father of Motion Picture' - Horse in Motion - 1882

- J.Stuart Blackton - 1900 - Enchanted Drawing
                               - 1906 - Humorous Phases of Funny Faces'

Emile Cohl - 1908 - Fantasmagorie

1914 - Winsor McCay - Gertie The Dinosaur 

1920 to 1950 - Golden Era of Animation

1920 - Thomas The Cat
         - SteamBoat Willie - Mickey Mouse's first appearance for Disney

1937 - Snow White and the Seven Dwarves 

1950 to 1958 - The Televison Era

2000+ - Millenium Era - Computer Generated Imagery ''CGI'' advanced Animation massively

1995 - Toy Story - First full length CGI film

Sunday, 17 April 2016

Contextual

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_animation

Zoetrope
A zoetrope is one of several pre-film animation devices that produce the illusion of motion by displaying a sequence of drawings or photographs showing progressive phases of that motion. Wikipedia

http://history-of-animation.webflow.io/

Thursday, 7 April 2016

Alternative Miss World Final Piece

My final piece for Alternative Miss World was a combined piece that I wore to the SeWhat fashion show, it was a combination if my latex mask painted and Emma's clown pants and afro headpiece. Which you can see on the far left in the picture below, taken at the SeWhat show.