Karvan Swara

GROUP ANIMATION

 

 This is the final outcome of the group animation. We were unsure as to what soundtrack should have been inserted. Considering that the animation is based on an oriental word, naturally we wanted to also look for music that is oriental. We ran through ideas that the group put forward. Interestingly, we all put forward movie soundtracks. Some of them were; Hero, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Kung Fu Hustle, Fearless and The Last Samurai. We then went off and mustered the soundtracks and then we proceeded to put them in the animation one-by-one. Some of the soundtracks didn’t really flow with the animation; some just didn’t work because it didn’t feel right. We came to our final decision which was ‘The Last Samurai’ soundtrack. In this instrumental, it offered intense and aggressive orchestral moments and also distancing as well as harmonious moments. It fits together with the animation nicely and we couldn’t have picked a more suited soundtrack.

            The animation itself was faithful to the word we chose which was ‘Won’ – Unwillingness to let go of an illusion. The illusion in the animation is freedom. This is demonstrated by having the particles in clusters and entrapped in sort of invisible barrier. The barriers then open, allowing the particles to escape uncontrollably to only realize that there lays another barrier that envelopes them once more. The process is then repeated.                    

 

 

The colours that were used for the tracer were too diverse. We thought that having one family of colour would be quite sufficient. So we had another play around with the emitter,  tracer, deflector, turbulence and the friction tool. What we didn’t know was that the render was going to be monstrous.  We cancelled the render a quarter of the way in and it took over 26 hours. Here’s the result. 

 

 

Having looked at it, it was too basic and bland and had no real attraction. So we had to come up with another solution that still had the emitter, but wasn’t too much of a cliché. So we started to have a play with the tracer.

 

 

For the group animation, we had an idea of using the emitter tool have it repeatedly bounce back and forth with the deflector tool. We also put in some lights so that the particles in the emitter would cas some shadows. Here is what we came up with. 

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RESEARCH

 

This is similar to the previous animation, however there’s more glow which doesn’t help the background make the subject stand out.

There’s something about the tone of the blue that makes the black seem empty and infinite. The swaying of the blue dust combined with the background makes the feel of the animation elegant and natural and also creates an optical illusion.

The colours work harmoniously and create a soothing vibe. However it’s not something that inspires me because having two colours that fade between one another has its limits.  

I think this animation is really well put together. It’s simple and also has good technical use from the software. We will be approaching this concept of being simplistic but having a good technical use of the animation. This will undoubtedly be more appealing than having random explosions, emitters, etc. 

I really like this dust effect. This can definitely be emulated in the group animation, however, we’re not that keen on having too many effects going on at the same time because it would look bland and show no thinking process other than it looking great.

I think this was achieved using the emitter tool. But either way I like its build up to filling the invisible bottle. Even though I’m not meant to model of this world, I like the idea of filling a space that isn’t visible. 

I’m quite moved by this clip because although not a lot is happening it depicts elegance and blithe. I like the fact that the particles come up from above the camera, allowing the audience to see it up close and personally. The fact it fades away after reaching a distance makes the piece more soothing.

 

GROUP PROJECT

 

I met up with my other team mates to tackle the essay. We decided to do the essay based on Marcel Duchamp because we calculated that this would allow us to have more input as appose to the other.

We broke the essay into three part; 1) discuss the background of Duchamp’s life and how he perused a life of art, 2) what was going happening in the world that led his work to be so different and 3) our person thought thoughts to the essay question, which is ‘Is there a conversation between the art and the audience’.

On that very day I had finished my part by discussing the main approach on what art is and if it’s important for the piece to be interactive, if not appealing by some means of a story, or to exhibit an object like he did and have infinite approaches to it. It was tough to explain how it’s difficult to maintain radiance in the art but also have an interesting story within in. I felt that finding a middle ground between the two is rare.

I also fond an artist in the 21^st century who has a similar style and approach to Duchamp and what the concept that revolve around his work mean.

 We also decided on what Japanese word our group animation was going to be based on. As a group, we chose the word (Won) – unwillingness to let go of an illusion, naturally we knew it was going to be easy coming up with a few ideas considering that it’s a ‘3d experiment module’.

 EXPERIMENTS

This was the second time using the matrix extrude. Along side that, I used the shatter tool to see what effects I could come up with. This was the result. I was really blown away by its density and the random locomotion of the object. It’s very expressive and moving.   

 

 

 

 

 

I had a go with the matrix extrude tool as well as the twist to create a bizarre movement in the shapes. It doesn’t really look that appealing, maybe its because of the colour or the position of the camera, but none the less I had a lot of fun experimenting and will definitely try to have another crack at it.

 

 

 

 

 

Again, I played around with the atom, array and material tool. I find this piece quite unique because as well as the shapes being obscure, the colours are, also. It really draws the viewer in to its complexity of awkwardness.  

 

 

There’s a theme of destruction being exuded in this piece. I find that having the explosive particles move gracefully make it contrary to itself. And by havening another object being placed inside of it, makes it even more obscure and yet interesting. When looking at this, it echoes a theme “give birth to yourself”. The spheres represent human life, the dismantling of the outer sphere underlines a human in a state of aggression, violence and melancholy, hence its vast and unwieldy size. The explosion is the state of freeing oneself, ergo giving birth to yourself, which is what the smaller sphere represents; control.

The shape in the light represents a human. Only moving within the realm of the light, it’s having difficulty letting go of fear. Being a recluse, its only world is within the light, naturally the outer world being in complete darkness.

The mountain like object symbolizes a human. The intricate twisting motion personifies stress and the movement it mirrors when an individual is undergoing one. A force that we cannot see is able to move a mountain as big as us.

This is similar to the previous clip with the blue emitter about the notion of collection itself. I used that idea and put it to practise with the explosion tool. I exploded it before hand and animated it piecing back together again. It doesn’t look as interesting as the blue emitter but the concept remains.       

Adopting the same method prior to this emitter, I had a go using the friction tool, which can be seen in the movie when the fluid particles are being collected towards the end. This piece delivers a strange vibe to me, and I quite like it. Without thinking about it before modelling it, it illustrates a free locomotion but then awkwardly, it collects itself. I find this piece and the tools, interesting.       

We had a go at using the emitter and wind in C4D. I was interested with the result due to its simplicity. Although not a lot is happing, one can get lost with the locomotion of the emitter. I’m aiming for a cartoon appearance, and so I rendered the particles in red with a pitch-black outline. I felt the colour of the particles worked well with the solid white background, giving it contrast. I find the result intriguing because to me, it emulates the path of life but then changing its trajectory through every course of action, leading to extensive knowledge and experience that one goes through, hence the breaking particles towards the end.

 

I inserted a cube into the stage, from which I then inserted an atom tool to give it the pipe appearance. Again, I used the array tool to create a barrage of pipes. Outlandishly, I deliberately inputted an object that didn’t attain the pipe appearance to draw the viewer into that one lone object, giving it an interesting composition.  

Using the array tool in C4D I simply inserted a box, which I then made into a hypernerb. I played around with the settings to create a molecule-like object that I then put into an array and duplicated, at the same time, playing around with the settings. I get a vertigo feel when looking at this. It’s quite a delightful piece to look at.    

I had fun using the twist tool along with a few others to create this. More options are given and the outcome can be more diverse than the previous.  

I didn’t have a lot of fun using the clone tool. I don’t really like the outcome of this particular piece because it’s too bland and empty.

 

In class we’ve started to experiment using Cinema 4D. As I don’t know my way around, this will a tricky assignment. However, because it’s an ‘experimental’ project, I will enjoying making accidents to get in grips with the software……….. trail and error.