Everyone’s heart is occupied by something.
Animating ‘character’
This project examines the role played by characterization in animation, with practical output that demonstrates the portrayal of emotion and personality in an artificial life form. Additionally the project discusses the relationship between live action and animation.
- A discussion about the animation, in aspects of the storyline, motivation and aim.
The practical part of this project is a short animation called Everyone’s heart is occupied by something, which was created using the free open source software Blender 2.73 and Canon 500D camera. The aim of the animation is, in short, to tell a story about a robot finds something to fill his heart.
1.1 Narrative and camera language
2.2 why I create this story
- Discuss about the character’s design and the aim behind it and execution.
2.1 The body (Why I design a hole in the middle)
The real and the exaggerations
2.2 The face
ASIMO
uncanny valley – disturbing, unsettling
- Discussion of the relationship between live action and animation and why I use real environments into an animation.
3.1The relationship between live action and animation
3.1.1 Live-action film —-live-action character combined with animated environment
Examples:
Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah(1946)
Mary Poppins(1964)
Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971)
Pink Floyd(1982)
Avatar (2009)
3.1.2 Animated/live action——— animated character interacted with the live world Two Media forms
Examples:
Pete’s Dragon （1977）
Who Framed Roger Rabbit （1988）
“I’m seeing all these story boards that I would’t have seen before the movie. we were knee-deep in character animation long before Roger Rabbit although I noticed a marked increase in the amount of that type of work [live action/animation combinations] after the movie hit”
———-A Content Analysis of Animation and Animated Spokes-Characters in Television Commercials p:2
Jurassic Park（1993）
Night at the museum（2006）
Alvin and The Chipmunks（2007）
G-Force（2009）
Paddington （2015）
Sponge out of Water（2015）
Whole Lotta Quakin ads （1989）
Brand: M&Ms ads （2011）
Mirinda ads https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7MzvEAo1Nc
Beauty & the Beast 3d 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6bnGiW4PNg
3.1.3 live action with stop motion animation
Example: Willis O’Brien
Ray Harryhausen (1920)
The New Gulliver(1935)
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial(1982)
3.2 why I use real environments into an animation.
3.2.1 Affinity
Panofsky and others have long held that no matter how fantastic, live-action film always refers to reality as such, and the ontologic argument that film has an especial affinity for presenting the material world only holds up as long as animation is excluded from consideration. －IMMATERIAL MATERIALITY: COLLECTING IN LIVE-ACTION FILM, ANIMATION, AND DIGITAL GAMES p：102
3.2.2 Utopia
Visualize imagine characters and environments which cannot have in the real world.
3.2.3 Target group: children
The combination of live action and animation is very common in TV commercials and TV shows, especially those promoting products appealing to children.
4. Conclusion
4.1 Summary
4.2 Techniques
Light and compositing
Compositing multiple plates into a single image creates challenges for lighting, grading and editing, while the distinct methods of each produces aesthetic challenges in creating apparently coherent space.
4.3 Limitations
4.4 Future Projects
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