We have just had our class exhibition and it was a huge success. Many visitors came and asked questions and all our pieces were praised by both guests and visitors. The animations were all given to Lynn, our tutor and she edited them to play all after each other and on a continuous loop. This was then places in the exhibition playing on a laptop which visitors could enjoy.

Even I stayed to watch as I had not yet seen the other students works and found it interesting to compare with them. I was amazed at how imaginative some were.

MY ANIMATION IS FINISHED!!!! I have finally completed the video and here it is after days and days of editing...

To Change.... To Transform:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNBhLa99U7Q&feature=plcp

My animation is almost complete so hopefully (internet allowing) I should be able to post it up in the next post or the one after. My storyboard goes as follows:

The owner of a house leaves but pauses to tell the house to "Behave Itself" before fully leaving completely. This represents oppression of others to force you to be a 'sheep'.

After he leaves, the house develops eyes and begins to change shape, defying its orders.

A message appears briefly showing the words BE DIFFERENT and the house continues to grow and change. This is what I took from my artists paintings of famous buildings and changes them drastically through the art of cubism.

The house continues to grow until eventually breaking out through the top of the page and coming into real life. This represents the artists use of their talent to ESCAPE the everyday life.

Here are some more images and work I did concerning the idea of using change to escape:

I made this extremely quick animation just as a taste as to what it would take to create my animation, check it out:

I have started to get well into my animation, drawing the story as well as editing them on Photoshop, clearing them up and such. I have also been looking into my artist and found that in many of his abstract paintings he portraits famouse buildings and changes them adding on shapes and twisting and turning. I personally see this as his means to escape.

So for my idea I want to create a video that shows this idea of escape by change. Here are some photos of my preparations:

For the next few days I will be completing the finished piece and sending them into my tutor but dont worry I'll post the video first.

I have started the making of my animation and will be posting it later, because I want some result before posting it. For now I have posted some research and tests I have made:

I've decided to draw the animation on a whiteboard, making it easier to change each drawing accordingly. Then take a photo of each using a tripod and put them all on Windows Movie Maker. I need to see the animation in full to decide on a fps speed.