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Reflection on Practice :Abstract
How to understand
and control loop of rhythm in
short animal animation
Nowadays, action design plays a
significant role in the whole of animation. Of course, the developments of story, the character and scene
design or emotional expression are also the important factors in animation.
In the Disney animation “Tangled”, the action of
the horse is really vivid- the audience has empathy the horse because of its
actions and facial expression. Inspired by this animation,
I decided to make a short animation about an animal in my project.
Although
the action is a complicated area in animation, it also includes some different
elements, such as the rhythm. But the actions of animals are different from the
actions of people, especially the loop of rhythm, like jumping, running. If the
rhythm can’t be controlled well, the animal would look strange through the
whole story.
In
order to make sure the animated animal moves in a natural way, we need to
analyze the difference between the actions of animal and the actions of people.
My
research questions for this project are:
· How can I understand the rhythm of the
action?
· How can I control the loop of a repeated
action (like running)?
· How can I use the colour contrast better
to show the animal standing out from background?
· How can I combine rhythm, loop and
colour to produce an overall natural effect?
Therefore, I must have the rhythm respect to
do a deeper research in animation. Through analyzing the characteristics and
functions of rhythm and color expression in some outstanding animations, I hope
to be able to answer my research questions in the future.
Reflecting on project ---The color test in short animation
Reflecting on project
---The color
test in short animation
In
my project, my aim was to understand and control the rhythm loop in short
animation .in last semester, I have created the story of my project,
it is about a rabbit, the story just like a comedy. I always want to create the
rabbit not to be a real rabbit; it likes a child, which always have the
mood. And from this semester, I also
want to make the project more deeply.
One day, in this module, I watched an animation called “ the lighthouse
keeper”, this is my first
time to see this short animation, although this animation is short, but it gave
me some education feelings, the story is about the lighthouse keeper and insect.
The keeper always focus on fighting the insect, ignoring his real own work, he
broke the light, and finally the insect use its body to protect the keeper. According
to the animation, the use of color and camera are really good, there has
the strong color contract with the characters and scenes-- gold and black, it made the audience to focus on the
characters, not just the scenes.
It gave me some feeling to consider
the effects of color change. How to make the audience focus on the rabbit ;how
to make them not to notice the big
scenes. after thinking about these, I continued developing the ideas in my
head, and realized that maybe I should do some test to my project in color area.
At
the beginning of test, my ideas for changing and modifying were not successful.
Because I just thought that which color is more suitable to the rabbit and
building ,I just change the color ,made them to yellow ,blue⋯⋯I ignored the factors about the combination of the texture ,lighting
and color.
Taking
all these factors into account, I thought I could create better ideas if I
explored them more, so I should rendering some pictures for the change of the
test, in order to make the whole picture looks comfortable and harmonious. After taking a long time to find some booking
which talking about the knowledge of color. From the books ,I understood more
about the color in different areas. For example,
the knowledge for consistency of color, the
different influence on different color—the warm effect produced by using red
or yellow color; the cold effect produced by using blue or black color. When I
used these knowledge for my own project, it changed clearer than before. I knew
what I wanted.
In the process of test, firstly, I change color and
texture(like smooth ,rough) in 3D software ;secondly ,change the gradation of color;
finally ,the complementarity of the color use is also another important factor
in my test.
Overall, from relation in my project, I feel I should have explored more
test in some areas. This would have given me some inspiration for the ideas to
the whole project in the future. I need to do more research for project . From
this test I learnt that I need to think about thing s more deeply before I
continued doing work. If I do it before
thinking ,it will be a big problem after finished the whole thing . And the reflecting on my project
will give me some suggestions on good and bad sides. It actually improve
myself for the next stage of my
project.
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