Fluorescent Hill - Spacious Thoughts.

Fluorescent Hill.

Spacious Thoughts.

Spacious Thoughts is a music video created by the animation company, Fluorescent Hill. The video follows around a small, onion like figure who floats and flies through a grungy, but colourful looking city. As he does this, he is also singing/rapping along to the song which the music video has been created for. The Creature itself is in full 3D effect, which is also the way in which it has been created, either in cinema 4D or a program like it. Whereas the city that it is flying around has also been made in 3D, but has been cast as an overlay layer, so that all of the pieces of the city are semi transparent and overlap each other well. The video then looks as though it has been edited in Flash, as the random display of colour splashes all over the city create a great effect as they follow the main character on his journey. There is also an element of pure 2D animation in this video as well, as 3D. The main character occasionally bursts into a puff of smoke, which seems to resemble pollution that spreads throughout the city, who sings the chorus of the song throughout the video. I feel as though this element makes the video seem a lot more dynamic and less serious at the same time, because of it being 3D and more cartoon like. I was drawn to this video because of the imagery and wide variety of colours, even though the majority of this video seems to be done digitally, the splatters of paint and lines look very rustic and hand drawn, which may even be the case here.

Project 2: Week 1 Relfections.

Week 1 Reflections.

Days:	Monday 14th	Tuesday  15th	Wednesday 16th	Thursday 17th	Friday  18th	Saturday 19th	Sunday 20th
Work to Complete	Begin research on animal based animations.	Look at independent animations from smaller companies. Also look at all genres, not just animals.	Pick between 5 - 10 animations that relate to what I'm going for.	Look into more comedic roles in characters such as Carrot and Stick - Joel Trussel	CAD Session & more research for blog alone.	Documentation.	Reflection.

This week, I assigned myself to the researching of different animations, and letting them influence my character's initial sketches of it's walk cycle. 

Monday 14th October: I researched into mainly animal based animations, and found myself rather limited, as a lot of animations on animals were rather long and not focusing mainly on the character's movement. Although, "The First Time I Ran Away." did prove helpful with regards to four legged animals. 

Tuesday 15th October: I started to look into smaller animation companies, to try and see how lower budget companies would animate a characters walk cycle and what route they would take. I also spread out my research to all genres, not just animal based ones. 

Wednesday 16th October: I picked about 6 animations to research at that time, as I felt I found a good selection of smaller business animations, mostly from music videos. Fluorescent Hill proved to be a winner with its 3D and 2D dimensional sketchy music videos.

Thursday 17th October: I also looked into Joel Trussel's work, where I found "Carrot and Stick." This animation caught my attention immediately because the way it had been filmed and edited was completely different from the rest. 

Friday 18th October: Had CAD session where I was able to put together the research to be ready for hand in, as well as noting specific websites for more independent animation companies.