Let the music commence...

The three words I thought of whilst listening to the music were....

POMPUS

POSITIVE

FUN

This is my clip of music which was given me to work with. I've downloaded it and put the file onto my ipod so I can listen to it on the move, inbetween my own songs in playlists. The reason I did this was because I have found it hard to come up with ideas that make me think that they potential ones. They have all just been similar ideas to the rest of the group which all have come up with beach promenades, large people walking to the rhythm of the music. So, I normally have my headphones in when I am walking to and from places, on the train and pretty much everywhere I go, so I reckoned if I listened to the music in different surrounding rather than sat in silence in my room, I might get more inspiration from the things that I see around me moving along in time or responding to the music.

In the situation, where I was listening to the music in my room (first time I heard the piece) it was playing with background noise from the traffic outside which was very distracting, so I plugged my headphones into the laptop. I noticed that....

The piece is split in almost three separate sections.
The first 20 seconds of the introduction is like the tuning up and down of the instruments being used. (e.g trombones, trumpets?) This section doesn't really have any structure musically, no rhythm, just several different notes played at random intervals. The laughter in the background instantly brings images of big hurley-burley men sat around chortling in black suits and with moustaches.

This would be the perfect image if they had moustaches!

There after the music become rhythmic and the deep trombone makes me think of these things...

sound clip from 00:20-01:20 

The idea that the trombone rhythm brings automatic thoughts just as bobbing ducks in the river. In and out of the water.

Or, there is a military theme, the rhythmic regular beat much like this russian solider.

This music makes me think of walking, travelling, the kinda of music that you'd listen to on some sort of travels. So just a collection of images to do with journeys.

Nortec Collective

''The Nortec Collective is composed of four artists: Fussible (Pepe Mogt), Bostich (Ramon Amezcua), Clorofila (Jorge Verdín) and Hiperboreal (Pedro Gabriel Beas). These producers create and perform a style of music called Nortec - a fusion of norteno ("from the North") and techno, documenting the collision between the style and culture of electronica and traditional Mexican music.''


So now I know it originates from Mexican music? Will that help me? Who knows....

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A different angle...

This video is a development from a flip sketchbook which I came across on Youtube, instead of having the character staying in one place at at, the artist has spread the pages out and created a flat sketchbook with a map of which creates a story.

The drawings in an animation don't necessarily have to be detailed extravagant drawings. Simple stick men can communicate the message all the same. Plus there is something quirky about the use of stick men, the fact that they have no 3D form and they are lifeless when just drawn in one frame. 

Pure Genius

This video amazed me! It's probably one of my favourite animations that I have seen! Just the subsitution of food products using objects in creativity was a really smart idea. Using the method of stop motion again.

Blu-Blu animations. WOW, just wow!

Blu is an anonymous artist, much like Banksy, orginated from Italy became known from his first piece of work in Italy. His method of using rollers to cover as much area as possible makes his work captivating and unique.

His method of his animations are stop-motion, his animations normally last for at least 5 upto 10 mins. So you can't even begin to imagine how many times he had to redraw and capture the frame! The answer.... too many! But watching his videos amaze me but unsettle me at the same time, because his characters are quite dark and they all distort at some part of the video. Another way to describe his videos are rhetorical, often his characters go round in a circle, they start a 'human' form, grow into all these animals, grow to huge sizes and then end the animation as they were like at the beginning of the animation. Which is his main theme throughout his works, his characters  evolve into creatures which are insect like or robotic. The music that he uses is works well with his animation because it generally is in time when his animation moving. They are often spider/insect like, so his music is tinny and a tinkling sound, which represents each leg tapping on the surface.

These animations are particularly inspiring to my work because this artist has a really strong story and happening of events. Obviously, he has a longer time to develop the story to really elaborate on his character but I feel I can express a short story which can animate a really weird story, which makes the viewer feel uneasy but that ultimately makes the animation a sucess.

Simplicity.....

This short animation which I came across on YouTube just uses simple lines and shapes to capture movement, even though there is no sound the animation captivates something exciting due to the speed that the shapes are moving at, the development as they evolve into newer shapes. 

The possibilty that I could take the work of Kandisky, where the shapes that he painted in his work were actually a language, a translation of the music. The possibility that a big black thick line could represent a deep long note and thin, red squiggly line could represent the sound of a short high pitched note. So, from todays lecture, this would be classed as iconography? 

(click on the title of the post to view the video)

This is some example of Kandinksy's work....

"Hearing tones and chords as he painted, Kandinsky theorized that, for examples, yellow is the colour of middle-C on a piano, a brassy trumpet blast; black is the colour of closure and the ends of things; and that combinations and associations of colours produce vibrational frequencies akin to chords played on a piano. Kandinsky also developed an intricate theory of geometric figures and their relationships, claiming, for example, that the circle is the most peaceful shape and represents the human soul" - Wassily Kandinsky. Point and Line to Plane. Dover Publications, New York.

I thought that this idea would be relevant seen as I am finding it hard to initially think of something that relates to the music. So this lateral approach to the brief will be about to fufill it!

Intro....

In a 20-30 seconds animation, you can express so much in a short time, if the idea that you have is clear and captivating. These next few post are going to YouTube videos which are of animation which I have came across which have aspects which I really like about them, not all about the actually content of the animation. But it may be the way the animation is assembled, colour palette or even style. :)

P R I N T to P I X E L

The introduction to this module was very clear and very inspiring, and really want to get cracking on this project. I have never done a project on animation. The most advanced piece of animation work that I have ever done is probably done simply flip sketch books.

However when I heard that we were doing a animation project, what came to my mind?

• Flipbooks
• Stop motion

And that was about it... I really don't know much about the subject so this blog is here so I can expand on what little knowledge I do have of it and will most be likely to learn something new everyday!