Screen Arts

Project Update:  I was running out of time so i decided to to just pose my characters and render out the scenes of the animatic.

Project Update: today i added  the sky dome.  and add the last of the textures to the set and them added my lighting . These are my Final renders of the set.

Project Update: Tree Problems:  None of my trees are showing in rendering so i have decided to make my own instead of the template trees. 

Project Update: I have begun building the setting of the church. since with the new direction of my project i want to show the different contrasting themes with in the church and the setting i needed to take this into consideration when building my set.

Project Update: Texturing: At This point i have finished un-mapping my church and am moving on to texturing.  i want to give my church character and at this stage i am running out of time to complete my project to the level i wanted so i have readjusted my project to show the contrasting theme with the church its self as an experiment and then doing a short animatic using the church and some template characters.

Project Update: I have finished my Church model and am just cleaning up the topology.  and will begin U.V. unmapping the project soon. Light test: I decided to do a quick lighting test to see how it would work with the light coming through the churches window.

Church Update: So i have spent the past week working on my church model.  My new models direction is going well.  it looks alot more like a church and less like a castle. 

Project Update: I was not happy about where  my church build was going.  so over the past week i have been building a new church.  the new church was based off a design i took on the cover of my favorite book.  Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett.  

Update: I carried on making my church. this week. there was not much of a change form last week I had to focus on other classes so i was not able to progress my project other that in class. 

Began Making the Church: For my Proposed the setting is based around a church. so i decided to start my project by building the church. I began today by building a basic template of the church. and planned out my project. 

Forgotten Silver: Peter Jackson and Costa Boeates decided to make this great mockumentary about a man called Colin McKenzie, a man who invented such things as color film, audio film and above all, made the first full length feature movie. Apparently it was quite a successful hoax in New Zealand, people really did buy it. And I really can't blame them, as most of the fabricated film material really looks like almost hundred years old, almost destroyed film. And there are some very convincing famous film people, like Sam Neil, telling their knowledge of this McKenzie. Even the tone of the film isn't actually very funny, even thought there are some things in it that are so absurd, that they make you laugh. Over all well made mockumentary.   That i thought was real till the end and Vaughn told me otherwise,

SunSpring (2016): premise:  A computer generated the screenplay for this short science fiction film. My Thoughts: I Thought this film cam across as an uncoherant mess. the idea of it being written by an A.I. is clear as the entire film felt like google bot spewing out answers.  It's No Game (2017): premise:   With a possible screenwriters strike looming, they should beware as Benjamin a self-named artificial intelligence bot might just take their jobs. My Thoughts: This film was a depiction of the modern day concerns of the most people that eventually there job can be completed by a machine. it is this idea that the entire story focus around and spins its own dark twist from. the final product is amusing but i felt the message is old and  an easy quip to sell the idea of an A.I. created film.  The Karman Line (2014): premise:  When a mother is hit by a rare condition that sees her lift off the ground at a slow but ...

Ryan: 'Ryan' is a truly beautiful film in many respects. First the visual look of the film is high art. Beyond the composition and the colors, there is so much visual information going on that as a viewer you feel like you are getting a secret peek into another realm, where people wear the experiences that afflict their very souls.  Secondly, there is something very beautiful about the film's ancestry and pedigree. The film showcases the talented Ryan Larkin and his animation in a way that both honors the art of animation but also shows the growth of the genre. Thirdly the film depicts and encapsulates the sacrifice that artists face and struggle to passionately create their art and walk down a path that is so very much less traveled. 'Ryan' a beautiful film deserves its honors and praise.

The Old Man And the Sea. "The Old Man and the Sea" (1999) directed by Aleksandr Petrov is a 20 minutes long animation based on Ernest Hemingway's 1952 novella of the same name. Petrov's film was awarded Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 2000. More than two years of painting on glass sheets, using brushes but mostly his own fingers, resulted in over 29,000 paintings that enabled Petrov to produce this absolutely awesome, one of the kind feast of colors, images, and emotions that celebrate the famous work of literature and its creator. I have watched it perhaps ten times during the last weekend. I am still overwhelmed by its beauty and depth, and the admiration for what human imagination, creativity, and talent are capable of producing. The extremely rare technique made the film both incredibly realistic and magically dream-like. 

Animator:  Don Hertzfeldt Year:  22 January 2015 Awards:  Empire Award for Best Short Film Review:  Hertzfeldt delivers another animated short possessing an unusual amount of depth, exploring what it means to live and be a human being with the past and future versions of a human being named Emily conversing. The sentiments are simple yet universal and thought provoking. The simplistic approach to the animation style is helps draw the view more to the actual  message of the film rather than than flashy animations and special effects. animation is merely a medium in which Don could express the theme of ones own mortality, isolation of oneself and the need to connect and interact with others.