Final Hand-in, Sheep in the City

Here is the presentation of my final hand-in.

Clearly these are images of the city with sheep edited into them. Each image has its own significance.

1. The sheep commute together en masse.
2. The sheep walk through the city together, note 'Lamb-ton quay'.
3. The sheep go into their office buildings/pens to work.
4. The sheep wait for the bus together, yet exclude the ones who are different, note 'Farmers'.
5. The sheep window shop together, influenced and influencing each other.
6. The sheep follow the leader blindly, note our political buildings in the background.
7. The sheep move together and neglect the less fortunate together.
8. This is my reflection. I too am a sheep.

The haiku is a summary of my feelings of all these people in the city, including me.

Project 1: Where Living Happens - Plazas and Pastures

This is my final hand-in

Final Hand-In: Provisions

Final Epilepsy

http://player.vimeo.com/video/41637807

The above link will take you to a final version of my flash animation video for the word "epilepsy", uploaded  via vimeo so that the quality would be as best it could be.

I chose to turn the word "epilepsy" into my animation for several reasons; initially I had chosen to use the word  "evolution", but I did not think that my animation skills were good enough to do the word justice; I then thought that i would animate the word "strip" but it proved too difficult to shape and contort the "S" how I wanted to. My last resort was "epilepsy" and this has turned out great for me. Not only was it a simpler word to animate, but the animation looks clean and it is easy to understand. I was also glad that I could use a word that portrayed my somewhat politically incorrect sense of humour.

Evolution Storyboard



Evolution

 This is my third storyboard. It portrays for the word "evolution". The idea of this is to make the letters evolve into more complex creatures, just as evolution happens in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faRlFsYmkeY.
When animating this using Flash CS5.5 I would either have to do it really well or not do it at all. In one of our lectures we were shown previous work from previous years and "evolve" or "evolution" was one of the works. It was brilliantly done, starting in a similar way that mine does with a single cell multiplying and then evolving into different sea creatures, there was more activity going on aside from the one main creature evolving; also the evolution stopped in the sea and ended with the creature being caught by a fisherman.
If this is to be my final video I will need to do it really really well. I don't think my flash animation skills are at that level yet.

Epilepsy Storyboard



Epilepsy

Here is my second complete storyboard. Initially this concept got mixed reactions from my peers but ultimately it was too good to leave out, it is a very good illustration of a word.
If I were to put a warning before this clip saying that there may be a strobe light effect, this might be a bit more acceptable.

Strip Storyboard

Strip

This is my first of three completed story boards. Of these three I will select the best and most suitable one to animate using flash.

If I am to animate this well in FlashCS5.5 I will need to learn how to animate one symbol (The 'S') to contort in many different ways, this may prove too difficult.