Concepts

In this process I will demonstrate some of the ideas we are considering for further development. Ideas needing to consider are mainly:

• What parts of the illustrations will move?
• How will each piece move according to the style and emotion of  the art piece?
• What time frames are we giving to each image genre and how will they transition into each other?
• What lighting/colour would we apply?

A lot of these ideas would be solved through story boarding and production itself.

As this part of the process is about generating ideas it would be greatly appreciated if we could have some feedback. Any ideas, considerations or questions would be appreciated as it would strengthen our concept and developments.

Cave Paintings

Looking to animate this image: 

Dividing the illustration into background and foreground:

Paper: (background)

Using translucent paper to illustrate the background textures.

Sand: (foreground)

Using the sand to animate the movements and transitions.

Concept: Animal enters the frame while the background is still to give the idea that the illustrations are moving over the rocks / texture.

Here is a small story board idea where the camera zooms out to reveal the art origonal art piece which has been animated.

The transition could start once the art piece is revealed or the story could refocus on the bull and morph its shape into another bull from a different cave painting style. This would be good to illustrate the difference in detail and to explore the idea of metamorphosis.

 Through the transition of metamorphosis gradients and detail will be introduces as we illustrate the second piece showing the textual qualities of sand animation.

Transition Ideas:

Possibly for the transition we could have the sand blowing away the foreground to imply the passing of time as if the image has been eroded away.

For the Background transition we could use the lights and camera to over expose the background allowing the details to disappear and a new background to fade-in replace it.

Another idea is to slightly soften the background and start the foreground animation for the Egyptian art piece and the background texture may be similar.

Egyptian Art

The beauty of sand animation is how one scene transitions into another... The last shot of the previous scene will depict the transition in this case. Bellow I have illustrated how I've used the transition described above to isolate the bull's eye and then again morphing the eye into the recognizable Egyptian symbol as well as manipulating onscreen space as we enlarge and rotate the eye.

Once the Eye is drawn the camera would zoom out revealing the rest of the image while at the same time parts of the image are drawn in and animated such as the eye blinking and the hair and crown extending.












Japanese Art

Here we are looking at this resource image to use in our animation:

  

Dividing background and foreground elements:

 

 For this concept we would divide the illustration like this. Adding an extra layer above to manipulate the rain using sand. For the movement animation the characters could be walking along the bridge as the cloud above darkens and swells eventually the rain will start pouring and the people will run along eventually leaving the page.

Transitional concept: