Shift!

We finished and changed the name to "Quake"

Work In Progress as of May 2008

Beginning Style Frame

More Style Frames

Abstract Glitchy

Style Frames

Style Frames I've made:
Beginning transition to underground layers/abstraction:

Middle underground floating layers/ wideshot:

Layers start to turn:


Layers are completely turned on their edge. Then they duplicate out to form this new glitchy pattern as crystals grow.

Ending snowy scene. House is reformed, but retains remnants of the broken layers.

House Mockup

Testing:

Landscapes

Jochen Klein

Mountain Top Wave Forms

Magic Crystals Rough Test 01

1st pass from overnight.
Set-up new lighting. Starting a new pass now.

Updated colors?

Colors?

Animatic with Sound

My Paper Mind

Great use of a multi-plane look. In ours, dimensional planes will intersect with the flat planes.

Javan Ivey

Object textured color fields

interesting method of applying texture to color fields

Portia Munson

Hey Genius

Aside from random crystals, this is not completely relevant. It is however, amazing.

Digital Kitchen "Hey-Genius"

Low-level relief house

Interesting low-level relief flat space

Lucy Williams

Stacked Layer Objects

This is an example of an image that appears to be standard 3D from the front-view, but is actually composed of stacked layers when viewed from the side. In addition to containing a front plane with its own moving projection, the side-edges add up to another abstracted color shape. It is similar to when you color the page edges of a book*. For us, there would be more space between each page layer. 3D objects would live within that space.




David Spriggs
*or like looking at a multi-plane animation camera from the side

Shattered House

Interesting take on breaking apart

Nina Pohl

Outline

Outline of major scenes/images:
-TRADITIONAL HOUSE ON HILL LANDSCAPE
-HOUSE ON HILL BREAKING UP
-CRACK GROWING/ LANDSCAPE SHATTERING/ SHIFTING
-LAVA RISES
GROUND PIECES FLOAT ON LAVA
(SOLID GROUND TO LIQUID GROUND)
-PIECES SINK TO REVEAL UNDERGROUND LAYERS BETWEEN CRACKS
-CRAZY ABSTRACTION/ PICTURE PLANE PIXELATES OUT DIMENTIONALLY
-SNOW COVERS EVERYTHING
-LANDSCAPE REBUILDS ITSELF – CHANGED
-REVEAL LANDSCAPE ON FLOATING WORLD

Earthquake Rose

Interesting!

A sand-tracing pendulum created this pattern during an earthquake.
See here!

Expressionism

Expressionism Definition from the Britannica Online Encyclopedia
"art style in which the artist seeks to depict not objective reality but rather the subjective emotions and responses that objects and events arouse in him. He accomplishes his aim through distortion, exaggeration, primitivism, and fantasy and through the vivid, jarring, violent, or dynamic application of formal elements."

Stardust Boards Awards

I like the sense of space, camera moves, and the way the objects grow in this one.

Pearl C. Hsiung

Sweeeeeeeeeet

Squares

From I Heart Huckabees. The footage breaks apart into tiny, floaty squares:

Encyclopedia Pictura

These are my new favorites!
Encyclopedia Pictura

Interesting effect using liquid. Raw footage from the music video for "Haven't Been Yourself"

"Grow"

I like how the natural elements cover & transform the objects (people, building, etc.)

The Original Magic Rocks

I wanna shoot time-lapse of these. I like the image of starting with a grassy home scene. As it becomes fractured from the earthquake, everything gets covered in crystal/white/snow/fog. Then color & simple form, such as THE ORIGINAL MAGIC ROCKS awesomeness grows out of the mist*.

*mist could be understood literally as a physical fog or metaphorically as an abstraction that is so far removed from its original state (as a house/hill landscape) that it becomes like a fog. Alternatively, we could go in order from white with sound intro to literal house/hill to fractured house/hill to abstracted house/hill to snow white/crystal covering over everything to plain white with sound again. And in such a way have a simple circular loop structure.

Layers Test

Okay, I only worked on this for like 5 minutes.
But, I just wanted to get started on something.

Construction Paper Sculptures

Amazing!
Jen Stark:



She Animates:

Glitch Art

Links to artist's exploring the glitch aesthetic:

Lust:



Evolution Zone:


This is a great, simple video (reminds me of my Diamond flash project):

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

Here's a video clip from Yoshi's Island. Whenever Yoshi touches the fuzzy monster, he get's dizzy, and the resulting landscape looks like a morphing, rolling, psychedelic landscape:

More Style Inspiration

I like these a lot.
They're flat but textured.

Carina Traberg:

Style Frames

Rough Ideas (too reminiscent of MM, but it's a first pass):





Urban Underground:

concept sketches for green hills

So Cal Earthquake Resource

Some Good Resources!
Southern California Earthquake Index
Government Resource website


A Seismic Diagram

Kanye West by Murakami

The first few seconds of this video look like an earthquake/glitched-out urban landscape. Don't blink or you'll miss it:



I think someone videotaped this from the MOCA exhibit, which accounts for the earthquake like shakiness. And, I'm not even sure if the glitch is part of the music video or not, but whatever! I thought it appropriate to share.

Quake Sketch 2 - closeups

I'm going to work in XSI & stop-motion. We'll composite Deborah's 2D textures & layers. Some of the 3D elements, such as ribbon-like forms of sediment layer, will act as visual themes to unite the various dimensions & worlds.

close up rock texture

I like the subtle rock textures here

close-up on James Ward's Gordale Scar, 1811-13

and textures, color, lava-like forms here

close-up on John Martin's Great Day of His Wrath, 1851-3.

Falling Down

Collage by Miwa Mateyek:



I could definitely see the above picture being animated. The homes falling down, breaking apart, into the ground.

Storyboards and Style Frames

For this project, I'd like to create graphic elements (maps, graphics, tectonic plates, text). I'm drawn to contour lines and bright colors (love the colors of heat maps). I'd also like to possibly recreate an animated heat map-like the animations in the below posts.

Here are some rough storyboards. I'm not quite comfortable with the Wacom yet, so these are very rough:







Here are some images that I like:

Stop-Motion Quake

Reminds me of The Return to Oz:

Scary Bridge

This video gave me nightmares as a child:

Earthquake Animations

The Quake Project:







Nice colors and graphic quality. I think I'd like to try to reproduce something like this.

Earthquake Thumbnail 1

Make a Quake!

Emotional Landscapes

Tagline:
Exploring above and below the surface.

Treatment:
Landscapes connected underground through seismic activity. (snowscapes, woodlands, rolling hills...)
Examples of animation: Shifting plates push crystals above ground. Character recording seismic activity.

Music:
Movement and animation based upon a composed "graphic score" taken directly from a seismic graph.

Mediums:
3D, 2D, compositing

Style References:

Plate Tectonics

Now, to totally shift gears.

Landscape paintings by Leslie Wayne:







I love the idea of animating this. It's just a simple idea, the earth. Glitches and Earthquakes. I love the idea of compositing the shifting layers together. Could also combine a lot of mediums and textures.

Reminds me of this Bjork video by Gondry:



I know that it doesn't have much to do with Art Nouveau, but we still need that concept. So, I'm just throwing some fresh ideas out there. Perhaps it's difficult starting from style rather than ideas?

J.C. Leyendecker

J.C. Leyendecker was a popular American illustrator in the early to mid 20th century. He popularized many famous icons such as the jolly fat Santa Claus and the new years baby through his illustrations and advertisements in various magazines. The style above is known as cut away or cut out illustration, where the body is deconstructed into simple shapes by having the background color the same as the subjects clothing.

Lines

I like the delicate line quality of this work by Anne Wilson:

PCP - Fantastical Landscapes

PCP：
Heisuke Kitazawa/illustration and designs
CD Illustration

Beautiful Decay

Part of my inspiration for this noveau-psychedelic aesthetic was inspired by Beautiful Decay, a design collective I first discovered this summer. It was started by Amir Fallah, someone I went to undergrad with (though I don't remember him - oye!). Here's an interview with Amir. I especially like the use of text and color.



Amir's paintings and installations are very nice, too! Here's one that was at La Louvre Gallery

Mash-Up

Look for the cat:



Also starring lots of cats:



I think this whole video/glitch/80s kitsch has been done quite a bit, but I think they're successful in tapping into the whole phenomenon. It would be cool to stick with art nouveau imagery and feel to create a mash-up of our own. And, I think using a composer to develop music more specific to that era would help it stand out from the rest.

Crystal Rainbow Land!

I'm really into cheesy over-the-top imagery associated with the religious experience. In particular, the New Age movement, which is also tied in with the Seven Rays and of course, Psychedelia. Far Out Crystal and Charkra Land!!!

Nouveau Occult

I am fascinated by the aesthetic iconography and philosophical themes surrounding a number of Western-invented occult religions that became popularized around the late 1800s/ early 1900s when Art Nouveau was popular. Examples are the Free Masons, Theosophical Society, and Scientology. In particular, we could focus on Theosophy, which was founded around 1875.




Their concept of the Seven Rays is pretty trippy and could be a unifying theme (7 different rays/bands, themes of repeating colors or types of mood). Its themes were also appropriated by the New Age Movement.

Scary Catness

No way!

Visual Music

I responded to the Quayola "visual music" piece that Mike showed us in class tonight. I think this project could be a chance to work with a composer, using experiments and art nouveau design elements to explore rhythm, timing, and editing. Could be a fun way to hone our skills and develop a nice, stylized piece, without being too tied down to narrative concept.

I think this is a nice example of free play, the latest from Andy Huang:



Simple and doable!

more cats

Possessed Cat

This cat actually reminds me of Qing's:



Cat Designs by Hyun for an interactive video game. Click on the picture to see a video clip:

Color Fields

Krazy Kats

Aubrey Beardsley

I'll tell you what I love about each of these...

the negative space, carving

just about everything
very flat and dimensional, textured, depth, line work, composition, font, theme***

pattern describes space and has more character than the hidden, strangely small human, like deciphering a puzzle

Love the simple wood-block look and font, contrast, would be cool with stain glass light shining through it, maybe a 3D layer with colored lights pouring through from
behind
***reminds me of this (sorry I can't find a full version on-line)

Josh Raskin

Tommy's Hallucination

KCAL 9 Video


We've been talking about black cats. What if the cat was Tommy, based upon my true life experience of getting him on the news last year??? Maybe Tommy is on the top of the pole and dreams of flying or hallucinates? He'd love to have his (2nd) big day in front of the camera on our green screen day. He can fly!

pyschedelic anime - Chiho Aoshima

Chiho Aoshima!
Installation artist, painter, animator



I'd post animation but I don't see anything of good quality on-line. She had a great piece at the Ecstacy Show at MOCA a couple of years ago.

Zune - Dogfight

I really like the 3D/2D, graphic/organic, textural, spacial quality of the explosions and backgrounds here. And the overall color scheme. The main character animation, less so.

and a couple of awesome screenshots

ffffound.com

While all these images are fairly new, they reminded me of the old nouveau posters. They are very strong graphically, and each uses design elements to create the figure.









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