Vitruvius was a roman architect
scholar whose ideas about proprtion and design
influenced the visual style of the Renaissance.
I took his idea of the golden section proportions
and applied them to computer graphics and
animation.
This film was done as part of a class project for both an animation workshop
and an electronic musical composition class that I attended. The film is experimental
in nature. It explores the relationship between motion graphic techniques, electronic
music and the use of traditional graphic design ideas as a way of visually organizing
an animated film.
The film is non-narrative in structure. My intention was to start with the notion
of the Golden Section proportions as a starting point for initially organizing
the visual look for a given scene within the film and then improvised the following
visual images as far as I could before they started to become uninteresting and
overly predictable.
The style of the film combines both traditional card stock animation with animation
done exclusively in the computer using commercially available software packages
such as After Effects, Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator, the Flaming Pear Plug-in
and Painter. The music was initially composed in Finale and then re-orchestrated
in Pro Tools to create the final soundtrack.
Most importantly, the animation is intended to be fun. |
