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Unit 5 Animation

2012
Interim Online Review

The work below shows my current creative process for the Unit 5: Animation brief. This is for my BA (Hons) CG Arts & Animation degree at UCA Rochester.

Project Development:
Time Management: http://stitchshift.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/unit-5-animation-time-management.html Unit Introduction: http://stitchshift.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/unit-5-animation-introduction.html Research & Development http://stitchshift.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/unit-5-animation-initial-ideas.html http://stitchshift.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/unit-5-animation-movement-research.html http://stitchshift.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/unit-5-animation-character-research.html http://stitchshift.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/unit-5-animation-character-research_06.html http://stitchshift.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/unit-5-animation-reference-for-motion.html Narrative Development http://stitchshift.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/unit-5-animation-oafish-lamp-idea-4.html http://stitchshift.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/unit-5-animation-oafish-lamp-idea-6.html http://stitchshift.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/unit-5-animation-oafish-standard-lamp.html http://stitchshift.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/unit-5-animation-oafish-standard-lamp_13.html Initial Character Sheet & Motion Sketches http://stitchshift.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/unit-5-animation-week-1-2d-animation.html Influence Maps http://stitchshift.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/unit-5-animation-influence-maps.html

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Current Lamp Design Progress

Thumbs 1 5 Serpent Lamp

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Thumbs 6 15 Hunch Back Lamp

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Assignment Introduction
This essay explores the animated rhythmic concepts of Norman McLaren. The study will begin by identifying cell animation & its uses using the material from Richard Williams book The Animator's Survival Kit (2009). Re-imagining animation: the changing face of the moving image (2008) will be used to establish the evolution of 2d animation methodology introducing McLaren. An article by focal press John Halas and Roger Manvell entitled The Technique of Film Animation (1959) will be used to establish McLarens experimental style. McLarens cultural background will be provided from an essay by Kurihara Utako entitled Norman McLarens Animated Film Rythmetic as Temporal Art (2011). This study will then identify contemporary animation that was influenced by McLarens style using Michel Gagnes International gallery for Sensology (2010).

Bibliography
Re-imagining animation: the changing face of the moving image (2008) http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=37Eo0ns1EMC&pg=PT108&dq=norman+mclaren+animation&hl=en&sa=X&ei=EQ9oT7OlI5SR0QXU1NDiCA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=norman%20mclaren%20ani mation&f=false The Technique of Film Animation (1959) http://mypage.direct.ca/w/writer/FAA.html Norman McLaren's Animated Film Rythmetic as Temporal Art (2011) http://wwwsoc.nii.ac.jp/bigaku/aesthetics_online/aesthetics_15/text/text15_kurihara.pdf Michel Gagne Gallery Sensology (2010) http://www.gagneint.com/Final%20site/Animation/Sensology/Sensology.html

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