Foundation Art & Design

During quarantine, I’ve been using my time to create a final major that promotes an optimistic, hopeful theme of doing what you love and seizing the day. The inspiration came partly from the current Corona virus situation as it’s difficult to feel satisfied with life, so decided to produce an animation allowing me to pursue something I love and look forward to working on. The story follows a character who wants to run away from the toxic people in his life and the mundane nature of his daily life. After meeting a group of people who love him and inspire him, he decides to follow his dreams and join their circus. At the beginning of this project, I started by writing the story out and deciding what imagery would fit with the flow of the music. This took a lot of re-listening to the song to figure out which parts were more fast paced and which bits were more slow and relaxed. I tried to place the scenes with the most action in during the chorus to emphasis the key moments within the...

I decided to do a quick practice animation to test the software I used to use when I was younger. The app is called iMotion and while its pretty basic, limited to only manually taking photos or making time lapses. The app doesn't really allow individual frames to be removed or imported meaning that all the photos taken have to be perfect or the whole scene has to be redone. The animation runs at 18 frames per second to make it look a little smoother. The second half of the animation looks a lot better than the first because I started moving the fingers more individually making the movement appear a little more realistic, as if the fingers are actually dragging the hands. The only issue was the lighting flashing toward the end. I’m still a little unsure as as to whether the flash was caused by my own shadow making one of the frames appear darker than the others, or if it was caused by the two light sources being inconsistent. However, I am pretty sure it must have been the form...