Monday, 23 November 2009
MY PIXILATION/STOPMOTION
Here is my first attept at creating a pixilation focused around magic tricks. I want to see if i can perform basic magic tricks and give them a whole new look and feel with the powers of pixilmation. Since pixilmation was created and used for doing special effects back in the early day of film it would seem that this would be a good theme.
i need to correct some of the camera work and put a few more basic tricks in. I want it in colour and with a better soundtrack for it. im going to try and fix these issues in my next video.
Here is my finished video and im really liking the look and feel of it. i think i have hit the mark whith what i was aiming for but if i were todo it again, i would clean up some of the bad camera work and i would add a few new tricks not just using cards, maybe a rabbit out of a hat who knows !!!
Monday, 16 November 2009
Games:
Here are 3 videogames that i think have made a really interesting impact on this little planet of ours:
The CALL of DUTY franchise has been going for quite some time without much of a following. That soon ended when CALL of DUTY 4: Modern Warfare broke through our atmosphere and landed in our disk drives. This game set the boundaries for all first person shooters due to the way Infinity Ward made the gaming experience more interactive; I mean having the user use the left trigger to aim instead of an aimbot was pure creative genius. They also made multiplayer far more enjoyable than any other game on the market and dude to its popularity it remained £40 longer than any other game.
CALL of DUTY: Modern Warfare 2 has only just recently come out but it already has broken the most copies of a game sold over 1 day. This game shows that you can take something that already amazing and turn it into something GODLY. This was done by Infinity Ward stripping back what really made CALL of DUTY: Modern Warfare tick; why it was so popular. So infinity ward did there correction and came up with a Hollywood worthy story which is very believable, nothing you would see in a bond film. Infinity ward then wanted to make multiplayer more interesting and the only way to get feedback was to ask the fans, which is exactly what they did, and know they have an amazing multiplayer experience which has more interactivity than you can shake a controller at.
The new assassins creed 2 game looks really exciting. What i loved about the old gamewhich i see in this game is that it keeps true to the history of that period whilst adding a real science fiction twist. The reason why i posted this video up was because this game is original theres not a singal copyed version out on the market, i love depth of this game and the high level of interactivity, you are the assassin. The great thing about UBISOFT is that their games always deliver a highly interactive experience. A good example of this would be the New Assassins Creed website which is shown in my previous post., also the new mini serries which ties into the games story.
The mini series is shown below:
The CALL of DUTY franchise has been going for quite some time without much of a following. That soon ended when CALL of DUTY 4: Modern Warfare broke through our atmosphere and landed in our disk drives. This game set the boundaries for all first person shooters due to the way Infinity Ward made the gaming experience more interactive; I mean having the user use the left trigger to aim instead of an aimbot was pure creative genius. They also made multiplayer far more enjoyable than any other game on the market and dude to its popularity it remained £40 longer than any other game.
CALL of DUTY: Modern Warfare 2 has only just recently come out but it already has broken the most copies of a game sold over 1 day. This game shows that you can take something that already amazing and turn it into something GODLY. This was done by Infinity Ward stripping back what really made CALL of DUTY: Modern Warfare tick; why it was so popular. So infinity ward did there correction and came up with a Hollywood worthy story which is very believable, nothing you would see in a bond film. Infinity ward then wanted to make multiplayer more interesting and the only way to get feedback was to ask the fans, which is exactly what they did, and know they have an amazing multiplayer experience which has more interactivity than you can shake a controller at.
The new assassins creed 2 game looks really exciting. What i loved about the old gamewhich i see in this game is that it keeps true to the history of that period whilst adding a real science fiction twist. The reason why i posted this video up was because this game is original theres not a singal copyed version out on the market, i love depth of this game and the high level of interactivity, you are the assassin. The great thing about UBISOFT is that their games always deliver a highly interactive experience. A good example of this would be the New Assassins Creed website which is shown in my previous post., also the new mini serries which ties into the games story.
The mini series is shown below:
Interactive/Web
There are many websites that i like but i think that the one that has really caught my eye lately has to be the new assassins creed 2 website by UBISOFT (http://assassinscreed.uk.ubi.com/assassins-creed-2/#/home/). The reason why i chose this website is because it has created a whole new interactive feel; very futureistic. Its buttons are interesting when you hover over them because each button has music that activates and a small movie clip that plays inside, kinda like what you would see in a superman film. The main image looks like a cross between something from the Matrix and the Island, but thats a good thing because it has a simplistic feel and allows the user to easly navagate around the website which means this website has gone thorugh a very good design process.
Here are some screen shots of some of the websites features:
I like the colour scheme of the start up screen but the main thing i like the most has to be the way the designers have show how they created the complicated logo through the use of basic geometric shapes.
The widget below is part of the whole interactive experience of this website which i think is really interesting because it gets the user more involved by keeping them thinking therefor being interested.
http://assassinscreed.uk.ubi.com/assassins-creed-2/widget/#
Here are some screen shots of some of the websites features:
http://assassinscreed.uk.ubi.com/assassins-creed-2/widget/#
Animation
Here are some animation which i find inspiraing:
I like the Japanese/ gorillaz feel to the Monkey Movie (2008 Olympics). The really clever thing about this animation is the way the characters are performing Olympic based sports/moves like pole vaulting to diving. The way the characters a dressed and the colour scheme of the background reminds me of the Japanese anime The legend of Anng: the last airbender.
I like the way Pixar have taken the classic Alien abduction scenario and added a comical twist to it using clever camera angles sound effects and classic, un refined slapstick comedy. The way that the animators have made the human like a rag doll and the alien as the puppeteer adds to the comic effect. Overall I love the way Pixar have created this mini animation.
This to me is the funniest short animation that Pixar have done so far. It’s such a simple story but its execution is extremely well done. The rendering looks great, has a toy story/ incredible feel to it. The character design is really simplistic which I love and it looks great but most of all the comedy, it has the right amount of slapstick which when I showed to my flat mates it had them in stitches, and when it ended they were left wanting more which for me is a key factor in creating a really popular animation.
I like the Japanese/ gorillaz feel to the Monkey Movie (2008 Olympics). The really clever thing about this animation is the way the characters are performing Olympic based sports/moves like pole vaulting to diving. The way the characters a dressed and the colour scheme of the background reminds me of the Japanese anime The legend of Anng: the last airbender.
I like the way Pixar have taken the classic Alien abduction scenario and added a comical twist to it using clever camera angles sound effects and classic, un refined slapstick comedy. The way that the animators have made the human like a rag doll and the alien as the puppeteer adds to the comic effect. Overall I love the way Pixar have created this mini animation.
This to me is the funniest short animation that Pixar have done so far. It’s such a simple story but its execution is extremely well done. The rendering looks great, has a toy story/ incredible feel to it. The character design is really simplistic which I love and it looks great but most of all the comedy, it has the right amount of slapstick which when I showed to my flat mates it had them in stitches, and when it ended they were left wanting more which for me is a key factor in creating a really popular animation.
AV/Film:
This post shows my interests in the different areas of multimedia design. The areas i am interested in are
The last air bender is a highly anticipated movie in the film world. I am hoping that it won’t completely suck as it’s been inspired by the anime the legend of Anng which is highly popular all over the world. Looking at the trailer I highly doubt that it will do badly at all because M. Night Shymalan has kept to the same style as the cartoon but has added a traditional Hollywood twist to it which should look/feel quite nice, But what I’m really excited about is the way the special effects have been done, since the trailer only shows us the use of air bending at the moment I can’t really say much about how the other elements will be portrayed but at the moment they look well done and should look spectacular on the big screen.
A great look at another videogame influenced movie; Prince of Persia Sands of Time. I was a bit hesitant at first to say that it would be a great movie because as we all know movies of great videogames don't always translate well, and how were they going to create the sands of time effect, i wasnt very confident. I was happly proven wrong when i saw the trailer, the way they kept true to the character designs and the special effects look out of this world. the sand particals that emerge out of the princes tribal markings look unreal, so good in fact it looks far better than the videogame cutsceans.
I love the work of Quentin Tarantino, the way he shoots his movies give off a comic book style espeshally when he adds the cell shading like in Sin City when its black and white with a comic book inc feel. i liked the way he used the colours red and yellow to show key parts of the narrative its self like a blood trail or a charchters peice of defind clothing. I also love anderew kramer who is the co-founder of videocopilot.net which shows you some amazing techniques on special effects. For more information on videocopilot.net look at my older posts.
- AV/Film
- Animation
- Games
- Web/Interactive
The last air bender is a highly anticipated movie in the film world. I am hoping that it won’t completely suck as it’s been inspired by the anime the legend of Anng which is highly popular all over the world. Looking at the trailer I highly doubt that it will do badly at all because M. Night Shymalan has kept to the same style as the cartoon but has added a traditional Hollywood twist to it which should look/feel quite nice, But what I’m really excited about is the way the special effects have been done, since the trailer only shows us the use of air bending at the moment I can’t really say much about how the other elements will be portrayed but at the moment they look well done and should look spectacular on the big screen.
A great look at another videogame influenced movie; Prince of Persia Sands of Time. I was a bit hesitant at first to say that it would be a great movie because as we all know movies of great videogames don't always translate well, and how were they going to create the sands of time effect, i wasnt very confident. I was happly proven wrong when i saw the trailer, the way they kept true to the character designs and the special effects look out of this world. the sand particals that emerge out of the princes tribal markings look unreal, so good in fact it looks far better than the videogame cutsceans.
I love the work of Quentin Tarantino, the way he shoots his movies give off a comic book style espeshally when he adds the cell shading like in Sin City when its black and white with a comic book inc feel. i liked the way he used the colours red and yellow to show key parts of the narrative its self like a blood trail or a charchters peice of defind clothing. I also love anderew kramer who is the co-founder of videocopilot.net which shows you some amazing techniques on special effects. For more information on videocopilot.net look at my older posts.
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