PICTURES!!!!!

Here are some pictures from the animation, well actually only the last one is still in the animation. The first two were from an idea that I was trying but decided to go work with. I still liked how they looked so I decided to put them up anyway.

Mez Log

6:55pm June 7th

I believe something of a breakthrough was made. Spirits are high, though there are many more obstacles to come. Rations are low.

Mez Log

3:45pm Monday, June 7th.

Currently in the mez lab. going on hour 4 for the day, no end in sight. difficulties have arisen. Some have been conquered while other still persist. I am determined to continue. With any luck there will be some sign of success, however that is doubtful.

Animation Idea

So I realized that I never talked about what my animation is about or where its coming from. The idea comes from the subject of dreams, which was one of the prompts that the class was given, that and absence. Now instead of making a dream narrative I decided to look at the idea of the dream cycle. My plan is to make a minimalistic geometric abstract animation that describes the sleep cycle. Using the shapes I'm taking the animation through the cycles of sleep, N1, N2, N3 and REM. In N1 it's a slow simple start where the viewer eases in to the subconscious. In N2 the grid of conscious awareness starts to break down and disappear. N3 is when things like night terrors happen so I will start using sharper shapes like triangles to express this feeling. Then the longest part of dreaming happens, REM, here I will explore the most vivid part of dreaming. Then it's the waking up part. In a way the animation is a dream about the dream cycles, if that makes any sense.

Screen Shots

Here are some shots of my animation. As you can see I am playing with very simple geometric forms.

Stupid Black Square

I have no idea what I'm doing wrong but I can not for the life of me get rid of the square plane and keep the red dot on it.

Blogress in Sketch Form

So here are some sketches for my final project which is based on shapes found in Russian Constructivist work. What I want to do with this animation is play with the idea of dreams by use the shapes to bring the viewer into an area where there is no constant spacial plane. It might not look like it but theres a lot of information in these sketches. I hope this works out.