Thinking about movements and a tone of voice for my animated sting, and these came to mind. Im a big fan of the end credits of the first Captain America films, which is probably he nerdiest thing anyones ever said. But i am! Visually they look very different but as far as the transitions and movements between frames goes they're very similar. I read up about how they were made here: The First Avenger - Making of & here Winter Soldier - Making of
Captain America: The first Avenger by Method Design, 2010.
With the first film, as the majority of it is set in around of WW2 timscale, it incorporates lots of war propaganda poster imagery and sort of merges them in to one long moving image,using often only small object movements, but big camera zooms, spins and pans. They use Maya and more 3D, Film industry based technology to make it all, but hopefully i should be able to achieve a similar kind of effect with After Effects, especially when it comes to smooth panning from one part of my imagery to another. The big fanfare music by Alan Silversti (a big film score hero of mine) also really gives the whole thing an amazingly nostalgic,victorious, uplifting, war-time feel,well as uplifting as War time could be?! Makes my hair stand on end a bit, which is weird,and a bit soppy.Watching and hearing it make me feels like I've overcome a massive obstacle (a bit like a war) and I've come out of the other side alive and well,and as a winner, and all's well with the world. A similar feeling i got when i handed in my essay last year.
Captain America: The Winter Soldier by Sarofsky Corp, 2014.
The credits of the second film are much more clinical, graphic and somewhat influenced by classic film credit animations by Saul Bass (below), in movement and the fact that black,white & red are the only colours used for the whole thing. Which is the same stipulation with our brief.Watching this sequence over and over, and studying the transitions between scenes and how they're all linked together has given me lots to think about and possibly try out with my ouwn sting, although I'm assure its a lot more complicated to achieve than it looks. But the slick graphical shapes would definite suit my style of work.The Henry Jackaman score is also also hugely complimentary with the animation - making the big swoop, zoom, spin movements seem even larger and more powerful. The cracking screen screen part would transfer really well in to my sting also, as I'm thing of incorporating some sort of crumbling/cracking earth imagery to symbolise the end of the world in my prints & animation. Again, something I'm sure will take far more working out than i can fathom.
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This third animation is so far removed from the previous examples, but i also really like the mood set in this one by the wobbly drawings, simple movements, cute litre sound effects for each motion, and the way the the narrator's real, pissed-up voice has been synced up over the top of the animation to turn the initial joke into a small story. It's the little uncomplicated things that i enjoy with this one; the little 'pop' noises that the scenery makes when it appears, the flag constantly flapping gin the background, and the after credits scene, showing the further dimise of the nice nacho guy.
"Two Chips" / An Animated Short from Adam Patch on Vimeo.
I maybe won't be looking to make anything quite as 'twee' as this (although twee works in this instance) but i'll be looking to incorporate little, simple movements and sound fx to enhance the whole thing. Great concept though,still makes me chuckle every time i watch it - i must remember to record more drunk convos with my mates, i'd get some 'intersting' material for animations.
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This short 10 second sting fits in an amazing amount of narrative in the short space of time. It's been made using some pretty advanced After Effects techniques by the looks of it, but only using quite simple shape based characters and sea surroundings. The island, sky and plane bursting into flames looks super realistic, so haven't a clue how he managed to make those bits? Also the rain drops falling onto the camera lens is a great touch.
Sting 12 - Dharma from Anthony Hibbert
The friendly looking shark character pops up from the paper-cut looking waves, but the minimal facial movements turn him from cute to sinister as he dives back under water to get 'something to eat'. The camera movements do a lot of the work here - bobbing in the water, bringing the shark into the frame and them moving beneath the waves for instance. It's all very slick and at the level i'd ideally like to reach, if not by the end this module then somewhere not too far down the line (a bit ambitious maybe?). The additional sound effects help create set the mood aswell, and bring everything together to make a tiny 10second film, and left me wanting to see lots more! I'm just really looking forward to sourcing loads of sound fx to chop up an lay over my animated drawings. My Music Technology Diploma could finally pay the dividends.
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