Mid-Term Revise 2

Mid-Term Ball: Psychoanalysis from qaaim goodwin on Vimeo.

For this one I kind of took a leap to end the animation early while trying to keep some of the elements from the previous versions. The main thing to do was to design the animation around my hardware so that it could run to a certain degree. I found that adding too many segments to the objects in one scene would slow down the render considerably....where as if the object was moving super fast with the camera pushed further away...it ran normal. Just overall crazy calculations I didn't think of before until now. This isn't the final clip because I am currently rendering a fully detailed version of this and I will post it once it is done.

mang!

REVISED MID TERM from qaaim goodwin on Vimeo.

Never do 3D with after effects unless you really have the time. I am so swamped with work that I am wondering how I got through this. I feel that I resolved some issues that were bothering me and I hopefully addressed the comments. As far as the three different parts they are suppose to represent three different parts of myself. The little circle menu is suppose to signify going into my mind to see my inner workings. I need to emphasize that aspect a little more. I like merging two programs together but I am hating the huge files but that comes with the territory.

MID-TERM ROUGH DRAFT

Psychoanalysis of Q Rough Cut from qaaim goodwin on Vimeo.

Ok. I know what you are thinking about my project. Why is it different from what I proposed? Well my reasoning for that was it didn't make any sense to me with what I came up with as a concept. It felt kind of rushed and plus it would involve the viewer trying to attach itself to a creature that didn't have human features. My secondary idea to this was to focus on myself as a subject. My revised idea is now to explore my mind and see what is ticking in there. Nothing in the video is really what I think about all the time but it is funny how I try to put imagery to the different parts. This is pulling forth from the first concept of how to show an emotion visually. A great deal of this video is made in Cinema 4D to have a better understanding of the program and the integration it has with After Effects. A great deal of troubleshooting has been done to get to a functional point in the mid-term project. I still have a lot of work to do for this project especially for the individual scenes for the sections. Right now they are incomplete because they are not my final vision....they are sort of place holders so I can see what type of motion I want.

Mid-Term Concept

My idea for the mid-term dynamic imaging project centers around the self. I want to take viewers on a wild ride into the dark abyss of the subconscious. I am basing majority of my concept off of the writings of Joseph Campbell who points out in mythology that the subconscious mind is represented by water. To represent the viewer when watching this animation I chose the jellyfish because of the different species found in the abyss of the ocean. The very thought of being surrounded by absolute darkness everyday conjures up the feeling of claustrophobia. We begin this journey into our own mind by witnessing a group of jellyfishes coming on screen and interacting with its environment. The next split second we are zooming into the jellyfish and watching how the brain works with these quick bursts of electrons hitting it.

The brain begins to open up and suck us in to it. Inside we witness a lot of nothingness until ink splatters begin to drop on top screen growing larger and larger. Soon black particles are rushing outward towards the screen filling it with complete blackness. Slowly emerging from the darkness are some familiar shapes of a landscape. We now notice that we are floating in a dark cave and we feel trapped because we don't see a way out. Soon words begin to appear illuminating the space that question why we are here and what we are feeling. We try to ignore them but they begin to shift into odds shapes and form imagery that leaves us confused. Why are we thinking these thoughts? We wouldn't normally think this way but we are trapped and don't know anything? Just before we completely lose it a bright flash happens and we are suddenly being sucked forward at warped speed. Before we can gather ourselves we find ourselves outside of the jellyfish wondering what we just saw. The jellyfish begins to swim away quickly.





INFLUENCES FOR STYLE/CONCEPT:
http://www.bogleech.com/bio-deepjelly.html
http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Change-is-The-Only-Constant-Dickmans-Design/121895
http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Glow-in-the-Ocean/200023
http://www.behance.net/Gallery/jellyfishes/85682
http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/specials/editors-picks-specials/atmosphere/arctic-abyss-under-the-ice.html
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0505/feature4/
http://media.photobucket.com/image/fish%20of%20the%20abyss/joserouse/Animals/Fish/Abyss/transparent.jpg
http://lh5.ggpht.com/abramsv/SBAxWCdoyGI/AAAAAAAAPPw/dx8B68QQD0E/1265997134_55201eb73b_o.jpg
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/05/22/science/22deep_extra.jpg

Conceptual Ideas

Some of my ideas will certain around more so the mind and exploring it. My idea is sort of showing a very abstract structure of someone's brain and the ideas that float around. Taking in some of the theories from mythologies class about how water can be symbolized as the unconscious mind. I think this would be fun because it could be a really expanded, crazy look at the hero's adventure. The subject matter of it may have to go completely away from some of the subjects I originally posted but it may be awesome to see a take on stuff by Joseph Campbell.

Another idea that I was shooting around was more about modernizing what surrealism is to me. Making more of a designed look to it that plays on composition. Personally I feel that a lot of my work is just becoming textured and crazy...I like that but I don't want to completely limit myself. Maybe focusing on developing a balance between the simple and detailed.

These are my two main ideas because I feel that I need to focus more on the areas of concept, design, and composition. There should always be a balance but it should also push me some more to get out of the normality of a style.

Freud Matte

Freud Matte from qaaim goodwin on Vimeo.

I couldn't think of something super awesome for using mattes other than making a wacky looking sequence that seems cut out of a PBS documentary. I played around with some features from the Riot Gear plugins pack as a secondary path but it didn't really enhance it. I have to think ahead about the use of mattes before diving right in to them. Just another day of learning.

Puppet Tool Test

Eye Guy Dance from qaaim goodwin on Vimeo.

I didn't accomplish much with the puppet tool but I can understand how powerful of a tool it can be when used in the right situation. At this moment I am at a lost for real imagery to convey although I am sure there is a large abundance of it out there. This animation is really simple in an attempt to understand the tool rather than go crazy with it like my fellow peers. I feel sort of out disconnected to the tool though because I prefer animating a character from scene to scene without after effects doing it for me. That is my only gripe about the tool. Other than that I just need to find the time to work on a great animation.