Story Development

Next stage in animation development

Now as a final year student, my hopes of gathering the specific skill of an animator has come to a next stage, one that encompasses the demand to show a result of my day to day practice and learning to a large audience. I am on my third year of study and second year as a animation enthusiast and from now on I am going to post a short week to week evolution of my final project, inspiration pieces and personal insight regarding the 2D world. Enjoy!

The end

These last days I have worked a lot on the final sequence, I got to say that I encountered some difficulties during the ending phase due to some technical problems regarding my personal computer. As I have dealt with a previous problem like this, having deleted a lot of work from my animated video equals long hours spent staring at the computer screen and recreating frame by frame again. What have I learned so far? Always, but always backup your work, save a copy on every disk you have and make sure you follow your plan accordingly.
As a whole, I believe that this course gave me good insights about the animation industry, therefore I gained more skills and technical dexterity that pushes me forward in following this path, in other words, my aim is to continue working on my technical development and aesthetics. Hopefully I will come up with fresh and innovative concepts and visuals.

Project development last phase

Today I am working on the last part of the animation , the last two verses from the chosen poem which I found pretty challenging to animate. Having only one day left until the deadline, I feel a little worried when I comes to the ending of my animation. I believe that the latter can rather let the audience impressed or leave a question mark about the aesthetics. I will not choose the "to define is to limit" conclusion but one that communicate a surrealistic concept that leave space also for the imaginary.
Here is a screenshot of my workspace where I tried to produce an infinite door animation by using only the tools from after effects.

Good morning, life!

Logorama from Marc Altshuler - Human Music on Vimeo.

Since everything is advertising, people tend to think in representational identities and standardized and materialistic concepts that have become our priorities. Here is an epic and rebellious critique of the culture we live in.

Learning

Some months ago a media tutor asked me what is an aspiration for an artist. At that time I didn't acknowledge this side of a person, the side of begin-progress-end  and the point hard slogging. When the courses had started to push us to a demanding  field, the one that includes animated video, my artistic curiosity   pumped up and lined my priorities in a manner that since then I have started to not only watch a piece of work by great animators but also perceive what a difference does it make within my personal stimulation regarding creativity. Hence I sort of received a mindful mind that nothing will take the place of persistence throughout the process of my work.

Creativity consumes us.Let it out and to something with it.

I have started to "consume" my ideas 4 days ago, therefore my animation project is going slowly but also surely. I worked on my techniques with masks manipulation and 3d camera mapping so now I can easily and pleasantly spend my time working hard on my project.