the Canada Line!!

We made it! It felt great to see our stuff up in the subway. I'm not posting the final video online at this time but maybe some still images later.

The Latest Shoot

We shot some more material that we could incorporate into the final design.

Nova Transition

After we split by episode, I haven't had much involvement with the other groups besides discussing ideas. Group 1 thought of an interesting transition involving cutouts and asked me to animate Nova falling so that the silhouette could be printed out and then animated.

Now We're Getting Somewhere

We decided to do it all in light.

We did a 5 hour shoot in a tiny library room.

I looked at the timing on our animatic and made a rough timing sheet. So far when we had done light shoots, we had only gone in with a rough idea of what we wanted to do, but this time it was necessary to plan it out down to what frames we wanted.

We tried out some more experimentation with light as well, and James' came up with the idea of pointing the light onto the concrete wall when I drew Nova out. It gave her a very ethereal look.

We experimented with the angles we drew at too, to get the idea of tangible space when creating the block animations.

Our timing sheet:

Supernova Continued

After the nova part of the episode, we inserted james' design. We decided on an ending image to work with, a void. James' design was blocks that come forth after the explosion, so I paired it with a light image to transition it to the void at the end. To keep the idea of beats in our project, I tracked the beats in a clip of music so that we could just sample from it when animating patterns. (the song is m83's We Own the Sky... its a good song. )

Ghetto Mocap

After seeing some of Etienne Jules Marey's work on motion capture, we went back to testing light again. Part of the reason for that was also after working on the computer for a while, we felt that we lost some of the organic and gestural design that we had from our light tests. We took a bit of a diversion and tried doing our own 'at home' motion capture. We put together a stick with a string of lights evenly spaced and attached it to James' leg. He also taped on different lights to his hand and shoulder and we tracked those movements as well. Afterwards we took the light stick and traced out different movements as well.

Supernova

I animated a visualization of the nova sequence in the beginning of the episode.

My goal was to find a transition to make the character lead into a more geometric landscape. (Bridged with krisometry).