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2-Character Design Projects – Part 2 – Japanese Media

2-Character Design Projects – Part 1 – Japanese Media

The story chosen was Kachi-Kachi Yama and I chose the old man Famer, the Bunny, and the Tanuki. The farmer is someone who underwent great loss and was deceived by someone who he thought he could trust. The Rabbit is a friendly vigilante as they take the matters of the Tanuki into their own paws. Lastly, the Tanuki is devious and spiteful.

Japanese Media – Traditional Media – Bugaku Mask Creation

For this mask, I was using a reference image I found where the inside of the clay mask appeared to be molded from the performers face and sculpted upon. I was also taking into consideration the material exterior of clay and the exaggeration of some extremities and accessories of the face to create a “character” from the mask. Color was hard to determine for Bugaku mask because it seemed to show that they were only limiting themselves to warm colors that fused more into anger and rage, while if I went for a grotesque appearance that is when I would have been able to use blue or green as a main base coat.

Japanese Traditional Media – Japanese Media

For this assignment in Japanese Media, The traditional media I will be attempting to reproduce will be that of a Bugaku mask of the Heian Period of Japan. I am taking examples from Bugaku mask of the time and Hon mask. These mask were made as dance specific works of art to be worn during formal, organized choreographic dances for ceremonies or rituals. These mask are traditionally made using wood carving or clay. 

Senior Studio – 3D Animation Update

Cursor – Mood Board

Blacksmith – MoodBoard

Character Story – Concept Start

Sketches to find the right body shape and head

Finalizing character sketch

House layout design (In progress)

Concept Art

Production 2 – Final Project – Perspective

The video below is a project that deals with my enjoyment of thinking technically about how I will transition my footage from one scene to the next. I tend to also think about transitions or camera movements that my peers have not yet tried for themselves or even I haven’t seen. This is an experimental piece with all my practices tried through it.

The technical aspects used were:

• invisible cuts
  • done through going to black items or light
• whip cuts
  • cutting on the blur of a screen action
• Match Cuts
  • linking motion or elements of a scene for a faster transition through space and time

Motion Graphics – Final – Procrastination

The concept of this piece is to establish a feeling of how procrastination is to many people. Time starts out slow and increasingly speeds up. More and more times passes and before anyone can realize time stops and time has run out.

The overlapping of clock ticks is to try and overwhelm the viewers auditory sense and make it seem as if time will never stop. Once they are granted peace however, is the final moments when there is no control over time and what you are left with is what you’ve did or did not accomplish.

Having time as a cyclical instrument as well was symbolizing how we interpret time ourselves. However some clocks deviate from this circular motion and become more elliptical stretching other moments of its rotation instead of being equal. This is another element that I used to try and portray how  a person who is procrastinating views their time. Some moments move in a steady fashion as if never ending, then there is a jump forward in time that the feeling of how much time has passed does not feel equal in distance.

Advanced Animation – Opus2

Motion Graphics – Audio Visualization

This assignment was an investigation into the integration of sound and motion  graphics. Establishing variations into how to conceptualize sound through color, basic shapes, texture, and motion. We had to create a visual interpretation of our selected sound piece using our own library of shapes, color systems, textures as well as motion and transitions.