my test for animation style

interesting video

the rough storyboard

this is the rough storyboard for the final film. i try to use the abstract way to tell this story. it begins with 'YIN YANG' which means every two opposite things,but alive rely on each other. for example, the man and women, they are the two opposite people in the nature. however, the human developing needs man and women rely on each other to achieve it. so many things like this in our life, such as day and night, sun and moon, and so on. This just the idea for the film. i will do some develop in the drawing process.

After present this to others, i got these problem need to solve:

first, it need add more shots angle, most of the shots in the storyboard are too flat.

second, it still need to add more dynamic shots and movement to rich the visual effect.

third, it would be better add more shot to keep the story line clear.

some pice music

http://youtu.be/PkOyhApI5aw

a test

this is a short pencil test on transformation of the line,  just to see how the pictures work together. And in next step i need to think about how make the picture in good quality. Even think about the background and the concept arts of this film. 

positive and negative space

Rubin’s vase (sometimes known as the Rubin face or the figure–ground vase) is a famous set of cognitive optical illusions developed around 1915 by the Danish psychologist Edgar Rubin. They were first introduced at large in Rubin’s two-volume work, the Danish-languageSynsoplevede Figurer (“Visual Figures”), which was very well received; Rubin included a number of examples, like a Maltese cross figure in black and white, but the one that became the most famous was his vase example, perhaps because the Maltese cross one could also be easily interpreted as a black and white beachball.

Some interesting pictures

These pictures are recommend by Amy. It give me some ideas on how to build up and rich images. Using the shape of color to show the characters. Specially to emphasis is using the positive and negative space to rich the images and give more imagine to the audience. I will try to use this idea to show the part which birds flying through the forest and the hills. Combine the color shape and line to describe the bird in windy and raining day. Hope it works. 

Britannia

videos for reference

This is another referenced movie, made by caroline leaf. I noticed the camera moving and the  connection of the scenes. It’s an example to explain how can i do the scenes connection.

the developed idea

Take consider of Matthrew’s suggestion, i’m thinking maybe through transform and shape changing to show my idea is the better way. Even, i like this film style and the fluent images make a strong visual effect. The moving and transformation between each scene can guide audience’ s thinking. I probably referencing this style to do my final film.