MYYOURBRAINOURRAIN

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nso_-mEvV7Q

Story board

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A row of leg armatures wearing pants are standing in a line.

They start marching.

As they march, the being to form letters—reading from left to right:

D O N T C O N F O R M

Then the middle pair of paints rips off revealing some really crazy stripped leopard prints.

Simulatenously, the other pairs of pants fall down.

The crazy pants dance

Fade to a beautiful black.

Here are some video I liked:

How we met:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBvDm_JLEcI

Finger Skillz:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIYTtGF6WHA

Western Spaghetti by PES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBjLW5_dGAM

Moth by PES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHUvjnD2Jp4


My project is going to be an integration of type and motion. I am interested in how type's movement can add to the content of a piece. The exploration of movement, executed in an analouge form, is going to be the starting point for this project.
I want to make something appealing—even to non-artists.

Also, I my piece is going to contain commentary on a social issue. The poster has long been seen as a cornerstone of visual communication and activism.

Most people should be more motivated. We live in a first-world country, and to sit on your ass in front of a t.v. all day is probably the biggest disservice one can do to the world. This piece is going to try to motivate people to be more active, to want to be great at something, and to embrace their life.

For now: a brief test of stop motion I did earlier:

Comp

Here is a quick mock up of an idea i experimented with. 

I was not able to finish the animation, but basically, the houses pop up to spell the word sprawl.

Responses

No more computer generated. At least in the strict sense. At the bare minimum, mix analouge with digital.

Maybe these should suck. And be ugly.

Think about real motion vs. keyframed motion
Can the be combined?

Process oriented?
Throught After effects?
How can after effects show process / be organic?

Project and animate by moving the projector

Like when you were elementary school and thought it was hilarious everytime the teacher pointed the overhead onto the celing. Shit, at least she could make stars.

ALL HAND DRAWN?

My Proposal:

Most of the motion graphics I have seen that are being done today have really nice elements. The text's aesthetic appearance helps to reinforce the message, as does the background. However, One area that is seemingly continuously overlooked for its potential to add content to a piece is with the physical act of motion.For my project I want to explore the flexibility of letterforms and the ability of motion to enhance typographic messages. Scale changes, camera movements, rotation—All of these things can enhance meaning. It could be called:
Meaning with Motion

Robert Brownjohn (aka the man)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSc1n8ByDiE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pka0FczsOfo&feature=related

Overview:

In the middle of the 1950s and 1960s advertising started to change drastically. The word and message became perpetually meddled together and concept became king. In other words, type became the image.

Its been about fifty years since then. Much of the work carried out by CGB and associates carries on. It can been seen in the works Stefan Sagmeister, Tibor Kalman, KarlssonWilker, and James Victore. However, all of these designers work in print so their work has no motion.

By Looking at these sources we have recognized types ability to inject meaning. I plan on using type (maybe one size and one typeface) as a starting point to create meaning.
Most of my work deals with how the brain interprets symbols and imagery to attach its own narrative to seemingly random images. I think I might start with that idea and create a brief series of individual words and see how their meaning can be amplified or subverted through the application of motion to their forms. Another idea that I have been interested in lately is the utilization of seeming Randomness as a vehicle for discourse. It might be good to use this trope to keep this from just being a typographic exercise. With that in mind, I have been interested as how the movie, especially with viral videos, can become a poster of sorts. Is it possible for a short, text based animation to have the same visual impact and viral quality that a video of a guy falling down stairs can have?

Expressions and Perspectives

I got a little excited with the expressions, and added too much blur. As a result, I got to watch a thin blue bar creep across my monitor for three hours.

It took a long time to figure out how to use the expressions, but once I figured it out, I immediately recognized how much time they can save in the long run.

Expressions are really awesome. They open a whole new world of control and finesse.

For my perspective project, I made some minor tweeks to tighten it up. I removed the heart because it was the one image I created. I think using only existing imagery, and further handicapping my ability to inject a narrative, will make this project more successful.

Perspective

Lately Ive been interested in how language forms meaning in our brains. With this project, I am exploring how symbols can function to create meaning, and how similar icons can work in union to create a sense of disjuncture of perception.

The head is divided into lateral slices and the monitors are layed out consecutively—referencing medical imaging, and the almost scientific perspective that I am approaching project from. The artwork is clean and simple.

Only two monitors face the same direction, so it becomes impossible to see the entire project simultaneously. By the time a viewer can shift from one set of monitors to the other, the symbols will have changed. 

Project

I was playing with the idea of how sound can have illustrative and narrative properties. Partly inspired by poetry class, the monkey creates its form from the spoken words, then the animal animates its self based on the sound effects. Finally, the description is read again, and the monkey fades, demonstrating the temporality of the spoken and written word, and the sematic attachment to them.

My Character

I am continuing my investigation of motion and its ability to reinfoce content. I chose to create a very simple figure that looks like how I used to draw to people in kindergarten. I want to explore what can be done with a simple figure, and how he can be used, by himself and in multiple to reinforce content in a piece.

Proj01_Sentence

For this project I tried to explore how text functions in a moving environment, and how the physical motion of the text can be utilized as a layer of content in a piece.

The piece begins with the word communicate falling from above. As it falls it gets quicker, and more chaotic. Then, these black boxes come in and obsucre the communication. The boxes then explode, revealing the word 'chaos.'

As we become more and more saturated in a visual environment, communication can become obscured, and even replaced, by chaos.

Proj01

The 3d didn't work like I expected, so I kind of scaled down the implementation of it for this project.

Here is my comp screen:

the word sincere appears first. It has nice, organic white ornamentation around it that begins to write on. The camera pans in slow. As the ornament is revealing itself the stroke of it turns to gray and then to black.  While the stroke is changing color, it begins to become more chaotic, until it eventually consumes the word "communication" in a cloud of blackness. While the stroke is transition from calm to chaotic, the camera, too, begins to behave more eradically, eventually becoming so shaky, that the screen becomes nealy illegibl. After the whole word is obscure, the camera stop shaking, and the could begins to fade. Left behind, is the word "chaos."

3D nesting my @$$

Here is my working window before I disabled the camera in the comp. You can see from the side view that this is not keeping it's 3D properties.

Here we are with the came in the nested composition deleted:

All of the 3d ability is now lost.

I think after composing with precomps the composition seems to become psuedo 3d.

Storyboard

5 years. No chance of parole

The sincere chaos devoured the tasty communication.

Four Words

sincere chaos tasty communication.

reallyfastquickkindoffreewritingexercise

simple

engaging

nice

funny

sincere

unique

identity

voice

authorship

singular

active

fun

dynamic

conceptual

relateable

understandable

different

design

form

chaos

vibrant

colorful

honest

emotive

quirky

unpretentious

awesome

avuncular

bespoke

quixotic

tasty

satisfying

viral

communication

immediate

gruesome

reticular

chewy

meditative

postdated

Sketchy?

Similiar




Contrasting

Compare & Contrast

Similar
action.change.persuasive.
emotional.happy.viral.
quixotic.marketing.design.
poster.type.gestalt.
conceptualy engaging, not limiting.
ideas not abstractions.
simple.humorous.quirky.
playful.interesting.sincere.

DisSimiliar
static.minimal.modern.
beige.stoic.regressive.
conservative.traditional.
form first. passive.
balanced.cynical.jaded.
repressive.boring.lame.
the fuzzy texture in your mouth in the morning before you brush your teeth.
asleep. tired. bland.

A Desperate Search in Pursuit of Brain Candy

Posters have been used historically to bring attention to a cause, promote social change, and as an iconic form of mass communication. As our society becomes more technologically adept, our eyes and interests are moving away from static images and towards dynamic, electronically driven materials. Many fear that the poster is on its way out of our visual lexicon. I plan to investigate how this medium can be incorporated into digital era.

Viral videos exist of people getting kicked in the balls. Millions of people are willing to spend hours of their day watching stuff like this. If short, informative, and visually engaging pieces are made in the digital realm, wouldn’t people also be willing to watch them too?

Following in the line of successful postmodernist designers such as Stephen Sagmeister, James Victore, Rick Valienceti, and Tibor Kalman, I am interested in the social, not aesthetic role design can play. These artists have stepped away from modernists ideas of purity and form, and instead seek to make work that can engage its viewer on an emotional level.

I dont want to make eye candy. I want to make brain candy.

Some Bull$hit

I want to further explore and develop my technical and conceptual abilities through the implementation of various motion graphic projects and techniques.  First and foremost, I want to explore other processes, both digital and analogue, focusing on their integration into After effects. Attention to detail and original conceptual insights are of paramount importance.

The distortion of forms, the utilization of outside techniques to add a dimensional feel to my work, and exploring how the movement of static elements can further enhance and develop my own aesthetic and conceptual core are my emphasis for this corse.

Free experimentation and rapid idea generation are the foundation from which longer, more developed projects will develop.

well done steak with onions

or roast beef sandwich with just a little traditional pizza sauce.

But suriusly,

Stop motion

figurative abstraction

distortion

short animations as a digital poster

albacore, white, in water

ink drops, black,  in water. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .        .. . .

tronic

layers, slices, pieces, shavings, 

a gestalt simulacra of holistic semiotics

taking over the world

cleaning my room

bling, lots and lots of bling

the history of the american empire

and all the kids in school.

WHY?not

notWHY

Esquire>Empire

chikity china the Chinese chicken

drumsticks, the kind you eat

banging on a trashcan

drumming on a streetlight

killer tofu

taming of the shrewd

corinthian columns