Final Piece & Final Words (DynA)

Final video:




This is my final submission for Dynamic Communications (Semester 1). My seed was birds. My task, was to bring my seed into this environment, and for it to communicate.

The persons bird represents them, emotionally, personality - even favourite colours and looks to that person. I took photo by photo a scene unfolding of a happy girl meeting a sad boy, and cheering him up. The bird, again, reflects the girl and boy. Once the boy cheers up, so does his bird.

Communication between the person <-> bird (Boy and Bird), and bird <-> Bird (They soar together in the skies) is present.

:) Thanks for watching it turn from sketchbook doodles into this. If you're intrested at all (and go to the same Uni as me...) as for my sketchbook :P

Bye for now.

Happy Bird & Sad Bird Final

I watched a really intresting documentry today on BBC2 called "The Pixar Story", telling the history of Pixar, and Animated films. I recommend watching it to other CA students or anyone intrested in 3D or CGI animation, it's really intresting. It is avaliable on BBC iPlayer for a short while.

Another quick blog to show the final images of my two birds, as seen before.

Sketches:













Final Birds:



















Final Birds (Photoshop Painting):

















Even though these birds are "Final", small things like their tails, and curls, were changed in the final video. I'll have the final video up probably today or tomorrow, and all that's left is to stick it all on CD, and put it through the Submission Box along with my sketchbook.

Can I...relax alittle now? : ) heh.

Crawadavile!

I'll be posting the final video soon!!

For inspiration throughout this project, I watched a program called "Life", episode 'Birds'. It was one of the most beautiful things I'd ever seen. This is a screenshot of the best slow-mo flapping...:
Life - Birds was avaliable on BBC iPlayer for a short while, not too sure anymore. : (

Merry Visuals, and a Happy New Animation...

Quiet Christmas, just worked on Elementary Animation and Dynamic Communication. Having all the pieces in place, my photos taken and my "happy" and "sad" birds designed, I'm nearly finished my Dynamic Communication Bird Project for Semester 1. I'll probably have the final video up soon, seeing as deadline day approches fast :s

Doing them in order, to try and keep the birds colours, positions and size consistent:

Emma - Happy Bird

Calum - Sad Bird.

...And finally, my Computer Art partner in crime and best friend at the Photoshoot:

Ceren & Judy - Stupid Bird & Stingy Bird.

If I fail Dynamic Comm, I'll blame Judy for putting my examiner/"whoever-sees-this-and-gives-me-a-grade" off.

Quicky random upload before I go to bed

Little silly sketches that might be worth uploading. Night for now.



I drew this in the first month of Uni for Dynamic Comm. I thought I was being clever, explaining how I can communicate using IM. It was really just a funny story of me being scared. You can find it in my sketchbook...











Penguin in my sketchbook, expressing my love for...penguins. So much.

















Finally, I did this sometime last month in a lecture. I thought "Find your seed, grow and nurture your seed" might make more sense if I drew it. It didn't. Pretty pictures of red apples, though.

Photoshoot

Update: Last week, I attended a Photoshoot for a friend, and took my opertunity to use their fancy SLR camara's for my Dynamic Communnication project.

I'm creating a stop motion video using photos. Here are some of the photos of that photoshoot. (Obviously, some aren't going to be in the final video... :P )

Final Ideas - Link to birds, emotion and soul

I've decided the "final image" showing my understanding of my seed and dynamic communication in the form of...a stop-motion video, using photos and Photoshop.

But first, I needed to investigate some unique birds to create some original birds...

Afew sketches of "Birds of Paradise":

And, drawing some birds based on fantasy, and the birds above:

Anyway, I've started looking into how birds and people can communicate on a different level; emotions and soul. I've looked at old photos I've taken of friends and people, and gave them a bird I felt best suited their personality, with colours that suit them. I created a new layer and using Photoshop CS4, edited in these "soul birds":






Tanya - "Cute Bird"










Ceren & Steph - "Friendship"







Gabby - "Strength/Defense/Will"












These are just ideas and sketches from the last month, so I plan to do something better for the final image.