Refined Final Project

I changed the music and modified the beginning sequence a bit in hope to set a better "stage" for the project. I also edited the animations of the characters and background a little bit to ease the "jumping" between images but it seems like it is still not perfect... lol

Final Project.. last day of class ever! YAY

Final project draft

Per our last critique, I have changed the entire storyboard of my final project. The idea of this final project is to resemble my childhood memories when I play and listen to one of Chopin's Nocturne...

Still need to work on timing and some frame jumping a little bit more.

Sketches

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I decided to omit this frame. But I want to show the kind of color texture I am looking for... pastels on sketchbook paper..

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Dialog: "I remember when I was a kid, I'd die for a cotton candy. There's only this one place in the mall, far far away, that can buy cotton candies...they're not cheap and I'd save up all the tiny-little-bit-money I have, just to eat them."



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Dialog:"hmm fly fly away, so soft, so cuddley, not too sweet, I like it."

Dialog:"But then, there's one time, this kid ...ahhh! he destroyed my candy!!...I was so sad"

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Dialog: My mom used to say, "Oh we don't have space to buy a piano... so why don't you just learn ballet!"

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Dialog: "So when she and Joey found out I started to play piano, they both pretty much said "Oh! you'll probably only play it for a year or two, you'll be done with it, just like everybody else... what a waste of money!"

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Bubble popping sound

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Found my childhood dreams - not destroyed, still there hiding behind the bushes.

final project response

After today's critique, I am going to combine idea #1 (random thoughts when I play Chopin) with #2 (go into a dream world of myself.) I am going to use hand drawing like style to create this video similar to the "My First Crush" video we watched ...swifting colors and line weight to give a more rough/loose look.

The next step: I will need to figure out how exactly this video is going to flow and create storyboard based on that.

Final Proposal

1) Random thoughts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fY4Epc2XSGc
I really like their idea to have some weird yet very interesting animation matching the voice over. I want to build a video similar to that but the theme will be on some of my random thoughts when I play/listen/talk about Chopin's music. Aesthetically, it'll be created with some strange and loose graphics and I also want to use a few different pieces of Chopin to represent the mood of my thoughts.

2) Gone into the dream world
http://www.pixelnitrate.com/movie.php?movie=papiroflexia

I watched the above video on origami... really like the aesthetics (textures and flat characters) and the flow of the video..
So I want to build a video of a female character in her bedroom, drinking coffee.. she looked down on the stream of the coffee and that brought her into the dream world of Chopin (music notes and maybe dance with him etc)


3) A flower's journey
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3S4hNMqDhoo
THis video is very well done. I like the similar black and white line drawing quality so maybe I'll create a video that shows the bloom of a flower via line drawing, matching the speed of one of Chopin's piece.

Assignment 4

I followed the instructions to create a list of words related to my research topic and then using those words to create some really odd sentences. I feel that these sentences are barriers because they are kind of strange. I chose the colors pink (romance), blue (night time and sky), etc to match the meaning of the sentences (if any) and tried to use the mini-animation to replicate them.

I think I am a bit stuck and didn't do very well for this assignment... I am a bit confused -- am I supposed to use images to do the animation or just text? Regardless I finished the assignments...

Assignment 4 b

Feeling Sad in the evening vanish into the melody
Curly children dance delicate reabsorbed into a broken pearl
Writer's passion missing the poet
Purple sound concretes the past
Lonely love evokes harmony unassured