Innovations

Just experimenting with HP Reveal at the moment, adding my animation as an overlay to the static image. In theory, if you download HP Reveal and hold it over this image the animation should play The dancing girl just spins like in my animation tests.  I coloured my running squirrel and looped him so it looks like an army of identical squirrels running across the screen. Spent ages trying to figure out how to create a video with a transparent background so that just the lines would show up over this image but couldn't get it. I made the video with this image as the background but the image doesn't quite match up with the original so it's not quite ideal

First animation test, rotoscoping over a dancing girl from the clip below. Downloaded the clip and followed rotoscoping tutorials. Found she was a little static just as a rotoscope so I added the drag to her limbs when they speed up which was really satisfying.  Seems to be a rave going on in this second one though. Wanted to add a cel-animated drop but couldn't figure out why the 'onion skinning' wasn't showing up in PS as it had before. So I imported it to CC Animate (AKA Flash) and could animate the drop but for somehow the drop is on blank in-between frames that don't have the girl on them which creates this flickering zoetrope effect.  Well, I sort of fixed it. Except I had to delete every other frame so she's going double time. Also in terms of movement I'd have to amend the drop, it seems to slow down just before it hits the ground when if anything it should speed up. I was trying to have it slow down at the highest point then s...

PHOTOSHOP // AFTER EFFECTS // FRAMEbyFRAME CREATING STOP-MOTION/CELL ANIMATION from Fifty50 on Vimeo . Onion skinning or cell frame animation, different from key frame. I think both have value. For character movement you'd probably use key frame, to create something fluid and unpredictable like fire or water you'd use just step by step cell which is what he shows in this video. I really like the combintation, Ryan Woodward does this well in 'Thoughts of you'. The 12 principles nicely explained Step by step beginner's rotoscoping tutorial  One way to combine 3D and 2D A useful intro to CC Animate Quite a long one but very informative and in-depth.   Great tutorial on animating water splashes Flow in animation (getting the arcs, blur effects etc.) S imple keyframe and inbetweening tutorial:  How to animate a simple snapping run

Researching different styles and methods This one's really bittersweet and the topic is relevant to my research project This style of having constant movement and inconstant lines combined with the dark tones and jumping around makes me feel pretty dizzy and messes with my head a little. But as an animation it's very interesting, not like any I've seen before. Playing on God's creation myth, playful and humorous. There's still something that kind of creeps me out about this style, very arthouse. I do appreciate the method though and really like it when the screen inverts for dramatic effect. A modern style, trippy and psychedelic by  Andreas Hykade Really impressive animation, smooth transitions and interesting narrative taken from Hunter S Thompson .  Like this one because of all the different styles of animation, you get a really diverse range. Also like the idea of animating to someone else's poem or story This one's quite ...

The old 'Chinatown' was around the Hason street/Frederick street area and was known as the city slums around the late 19th/early and mid 20th century. Rumours spread about the area and newspapers spread fear about this gambling drug den that will sell your women and eat your children. 'Stay away!' the public warned. Upon deeper research if this wasn't already obvious, the residential area was mostly home to working families who studied and work hard. There was a game they played similar to the lotto which became so popular it attracted people from all over the country. And there was probably opium use which the police used as an excuse to ransack and raid homes.  I went to the area and luckily the first thing I found was an information board explaining that only three buildings still stood of the original area, so I went around finding these places. I believe all the other buildings of the time were poorly made wooden shacks which didn't last ...

Haining street in Wellington was once a community of Chinese immigrants who moved over to NZ after their gold mines were exhausted. Known at one stage to be the most notorious slum in New Zealand the street was wrought with gambling and opium dens.  A historic photo of Haining street A racist anti-asian extremist named Lionel Terry had been walking all throughout Nz  from Mangōnui to Wellington, giving talks on racial 'purity'. When he was unsuccessful at convincing the government to refuse Asian immigrants he set out to Haining street in 1905 and shot dead a prolific Chinese man named Joe Kum Yung. He turned himself into the police the day after and was found guilty on trial and sentenced to death. The sentence was then changed to life imprisonment on grounds of insanity and he was later diagnosed a paranoid  schizophrenic. Site:  https://nzhistory.govt.nz/race-killing-lionel-terry-murders-joe-kum-yung-in-haining-st-wellington https://www.s...