Influences and Ideas

Ideas we considered; The first was similar to what we are going with but we were thinking of animating it in a paper cut out 3D space. We agreed that this set up would take too long to build as it would have to be large enough for good camera movement. The Calligrapher was the main inspiration for this.

The looking at sand animation example from Dawn Tuffry and then looking at music and animation syncronized i thought to bring the two together. Billy then suggested animating art styles on flat 2D paper format which we agreed would look good but drawing all the movements did not seem practical so we combined the idea of layering paper and sand animation together where they may function as background and foreground.

Applying what we have learnt into our animation:

In the idea of animating several art styles gives us the opportunity to look at some of the ideas we have studied in class and applying these ideas appropriately to the art style. Such as Metamorphism. This may be appropriate to apply to the cave paintings as they take on a slightly absracted form which is different for each style of cavepainting and we can show this through morphing the creature into a different cave painting style of the same creature.

Great illustrative axmaple of Metamorphosis.

For the Egyptian style we could consider the ideas presented in the reanimating on screen space artical such as.. *************
The example the artical talks about is an amazing example of using space. The transitions are creative and unusual creating a strong level of interest which is what we hope to achieve.

Applying the idea of space and perspective to the egyptian style would create such a contrast to the strict flatness of the style. I think it would reallt emphasize the idea of bringing art to life. Especially if we consider starting the style flat and strict then animating the onscreen space to bring it to life and then transition into the next art style.

This animation is a good example of how we might explore animating several art works into one frame as silhouette .