Screen Arts 3/9

Watched this week: Jupiter Ascending (1995) - https://www.warnerbros.com/movies/jupiter-ascending/#gallery

What a campy, cliche movie! Standard boy saves girl, girl falls in love, boy denies it then admits it later on, cue happy ending. Visually it has a lot of stunning CGI backgrounds, but the cgi around the actors seems a little 1990's quality imo.

Directed by the Wachowski brothers, you can definitely see elements of The Matrix in the action sequences and its nice to see Sean Bean actually survive a movie for once. Mila Kunis is ok as the female lead, but I think the story restricted her a bit. Bonus eye candy is Channing Tatum running around in guyliner with obligatory shirtless moments.

Overall its one of those movies you can just chuck on and veg out to without having to think too hard while watching it.

Drawing 21/8

Just working on the proposal due on friday, I still have a lot of panels to actually sketch but at least my cover page is coming along nicely.

2D Animation 4/9

Working on Simbas rig now, the sooner I get it finished, the sooner I can use it for my gaming animation loops as well as my actual animation. After somehow screwing up the  save as new version somehow, I had to use a backup version and separate out the original files into individual projects due to some weird crossover making parts get modified in both versions at once. Thankfully it was only a small amount of work that broke, and easily remade.

Drawing 4/9

Today is using feedback from Chris to adjust and improve my comic before I finalise the linework. Yet again a lot of it was using the same viewing angle over and over so by changing it up it should be an easy fix in theory. Using a layer to white out the panels I want to change and a 3rd layer for the changes so i can revert it easily if I dont like it. I am feeling more positive about it though so thats a bonus!

Screen Arts 4/9

Finally watched hedgehog in the Fog by Yuri Norstein. What a cute little kids tale about getting lost, and the magic of exploring the unknown. The animation is a beautiful crossover of realistic and cartoon style which fits the short story that Yuri wrote.

Hedgehog in the Fog - Yuri Norstein 1975
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS5mxXtStOY

2D Animation 2/9

If I want to use this to make Ghostie blink, I need to redesign her eye a bit as her iris/highlights dont really work with this method. At this stage just playing around so I learn how to do it, although I need to get part of this working for when the two characters narrow their eyes at each other.

Research 2/9

Define and analyse:

Effective Practice Research - According to Hamilton and Jaaniste (2014, p. 233) research targeting a stated goal or solving a specific problem with the aim to improve the situation or process in some way. A research question is created in response to a specific situation and then determining what is required to solve that question using empirical analysis, defined by Merriam-Webster as "originating in or based on observation or experience" (empirical, n.d)

Evocative Practice Research - research with no particular goal, rather the exploration of some creative interest to provide insight in that area. Evocative research most often does not have a specific resolution initially, rather it seeks to broaden the researchers experiences through experiments and speculation. (Hamilton & Jaaniste, 2014, p. 234)

Use these methodologies to explain:

"Visualising Resilience" - Effective


"in another light" - Evocative


"More than half a life" - hybrid evocative to effective


"Designing Sound for health and well-being" - hybrid evocative to effective


"Investigating the Bat/Human problem" - hybrid effective to evocative



Analyse where my project fits within the Effective/Evocative paradigms. Use vocab from the reading, reflect on what impact this has on my project: Refining my question, Defining my outcome/artefact, Articulating my process of working.



References:

• Empirical. (n.d.) In Merriam-Webster’s dictionary. Retrieved from https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/empirical
• Hamilton, J., & Jaaniste, L. (2014). The effective and the evocative: A spectrum of creative practice research. In E. Barrett & B. Bolt (Eds.), Material Inventions: Applying creative arts research (pp. 232-255). London, UK: I. B Tauris