Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label music. Show all posts

Thursday, 7 September 2017

YPGTTO: Animating the Audience


Carpe Diem, as the Romans say. I've felt like things are quiet on my end; a bit too quiet to be comfortable so, introducing some more work done for the animation to accompany the Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra. So fat I have been asked for two jobs. The first, now clear, was to create a series of bows and curtsies that an audience to the king were to perform. The keywords of 'ostentatious' 'slow' and 'ceremony' gave me clear ideas of what I needed: Something elegant, something graceful and dignified. The highest leaders in a baroque realm were being greeted by a grand audience so nothing short of regal was required.


As well as this, the crowds needed some variety. As the Trombone and Tuba districts were a mix of golds and blues, so did the people need to match the palette of their surroundings. Some colours form other districts were also thrown in to the bundles to provide a more diverse crowd, which in the final production would speckle the seas of people with odd colours to add variety to the otherwise monochrome palettes.

With these, time was dedicated to some running. The project already had some neutral runs so I was asked to create some runs for characters that would be excited for one reason or another, and thus running to a particular goal.



The remaining sequence to make is one or two runs for the female character Yellow.

Tuesday, 15 August 2017

YPGTTO: First Tasks on a New Role

In the past couple of weeks I've been brought on to a design team to help with creating an animation sequence for a film that will play alongside a performance of Benjamin Britten's The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, which for development has been abbreviated to YPGTTO and at present is entering the sequence animation phases of construction.

My first task has been simple so far: Six animations for the two commuter types that have been designed to act as members of crowds. Nothing too complex so far but so far the work has been engaging, and more could easily come very soon.
 

Tuesday, 14 April 2015

Infiltrate Exploit Spread: Soundscape Search

    When I made my animatic I came across some music that while interesting was probably not the most appropriate. As was suggested I should probably see what is preferred as the last two attempts at choosing an appropriate soundscape have been less than perfect. Not one to shy from delving deeper I loooked into the creator's profile to see what she had and found a few tracks of note, although there were less than I thought that switched the beat dramatically at the one-minute mark.



My preferences are leaning towards "Road Trip Through Installation 04", "Invading a Submarine" and "Waypoint A", with the former two being my personal strongest favourites for the soundscape.

Sunday, 15 March 2015

Tuesday, 10 March 2015

Abstract Animation Progress

I spent a couple of hours on this to get it jut right but this is my abstract animation based on the taste from a ginger biscuit. The track the piece plays to was acquired from browsing for salsa music on Freesound.org.