This post really should have come before the last, but bla bla. I want to go a bit more into detail about the technique I will be using for this project.
I have gone back to the paper technique I used with the pupurun project (http://pepaproject.blogspot.com/). I liked how the animation turned out and I have been experimenting with light through the cardstock. The face of the character will be animated with replacement pieces and the body animated in paint (though, this may depend on the scene). I like the paint on the paper though that might only be practical as a still background, and if I want to do animation on top of that I have considered painting on glass on top of that.
It was nice to paint yesterday and a good way to cleanse myself from stress and routine work for school. I have been using the computer a lot lately and I don't think it is appropriate for the aesthetic I want to make, so I am going to do the next bit of storyboarding and concept art using paint.
Here is a note I wrote down when I was painting yesterday:
"I'm taking a day 'off' and painting concept images and storyboards for my project "Swift". It is about a young girl who experiences a change in her realization of self. While she loses a part of innocence she gains a maturity and dignity in realizing control of those differences. The original idea I stemmed from was centering the film on the word 'fleeting' and looking at brief moments. I am also breaking from the computer today (I made a note here about how hard it is going to be to decode my handwriting, and let me assure you, it is) because I want to reinvestigate the tactile feel of painting and papercrafting. The computer I love but right now it feels too cold and controlled to work on. Fia deserves to be painted (her name means fire, though fiata means fleeting).
A later edit: My official proposal for my senior project.
The subject of my film proposal revolves around a young girl, named Fia. In my film she undergoes a development of consciousness, specifically in regard to self consciousness, both physically and emotionally. Living in a post-civilization world, Fia, who has reached an age of young adulthood, has embarked on a nomadic lifestyle to explore and eventually find a place to settle. After discovering artifacts from the ‘old world’, Fia experiences a time of self reflection as she investigates these objects. The first idea I had regarding this film proposal was to make a series of shorts that centered around the idea of the fleeting, though the working title of the project has now been changed to “Swift”. I want to investigate the idea of childhood, which I see as a series of brief memories and fleeting moments. I want to return to these ideas with Fia, as she experiences this quick and sudden change from one mindset to another, less innocent, but more mature one.
As of now, my aesthetic goals are:
- to encorporate paint and brush textures
- to use a backlight to create a glowing light effect, and to use strong contrast black and white/chiaroscuro
- to have a naïve or childlike style on the character and scene design
- to use 3D relief to create the ‘2 and a half D’ look
I would like this film to be suitable for a younger audience, but to also contain enough of complex ideas and emotions to be appreciated by an adult audience. I would like the audience to be left with an emotion. I want to keep this film light hearted and funny, though I would like to try to make the change in Fia enough to bring a bittersweet note to it. Ultimately, though, I would like to end on a positive and optimistic note.
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