Ok guys throughout the day I think we came up with a really cool idea between all of us.
We can combine the 3 ideas that we had started out with. Here would be our process.
1) We would do some marbling - http://marbleart.us/
2) We record smoke telling a story - http://sensitivelight.com/smoke2/
3) We mask the smoke on top of the marbled background, as in the animation would be the movement of the smoke, but the shading would be the marbling. Heres an example of animating the mask while the background is different- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GgJ8w3TvY4
So for the animatic. The 3 of us will make 3 different animatics trying to communicate something with abstract smoke-like shapes.
Denise- Does that kindof make sense? Let us know if you like the idea and if you got any concerns about anything. The only thing is that it's not going to be straight swirly like you were saying. It'll be smokey and stuff :) But if we go with this then that means you have a starting point
Oh and the flowing team might do something similar with water and food coloring, so they would be like wind and us water
ReplyDeleteokay i like that idea. my only question would be how the smoke would encompass the background like your video example. but either way, im sure you guys would make it turn out great. So ive been brainstorming more and i think the best material i could use would be rubber. even if i made some sort of grid (see image at top) it could still be flexible to move freely like smoke. but then it couldnt be clear. so opinions: would a clear, translucent, black or white material work best with the scheme you're imagining?
ReplyDeletealso im giving a initial presentation monday, and im thinking about the sort of lighting and stage arrangement that we want. any suggestions? maybe the lights could be off if we had white smoke and a dark background, and a spotlight on the model or something. we probably cant burn candles along the "walkway" to make a series of smoke towers but something that might be cool. (extending the animation into the audience without distracting from the arch design)
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