Amalgamated Segments Finale

After some assembling and editing of the obtained images in Adobe Premiere, this is the final result.

The author is thankful to the instructor Martin Rose for instigating his interest and aiding in using painted animation as a method.

Amalgamated Segments Production II

Using the key frames of the pencil test of the sequence as a skeleton, a pane of glass was set up in a camera stand, to be painted and shot with the use of the animation software Dragon.  The scene was elaborated by painting each frame on top of the glass, using glycerine and two types of paint. The set up for the scene came to be very important, not so much the surface of the glass, but the lighting conditions provided the sought illumination in the image, as it enhanced the range of tones made possible by the paint. A couple of key details were important here, the focus of the light from underneath the glass, the other dimly lighting the superior right corner; and the other being the density of the paint and the brush strokes.
Following are some images of the painting process.

 

Amalgamated Segments Production Process

After some researching reference videos of people falling from chairs and planning the scene, a rough line test of penciled key frames was done. The purpose of it being their use as reference for the painted scene. Here it is. The crows were intuitively added during the painted animation phase.

Amalgamated SegmentsPre and Production

This assignment, for the course of Experimental Animation, required to explore a chosen animation technique. My instructor, Martin Rose, informed me on the use of glycerine and poster paint ( among many) and also gave me examples of how the techinique had been employed. One of them being Caroline Leaf's short film "The Street", available by the following link here:

http://www.nfb.ca/film/The_Street


After review of my past attempts with the medium another work was started to sketch a more elaborate test, the result being the second version of the so called "Amalgamated Segments" assignment. The firts part of the process consisted on sketching an scene from which to animate, in this case the story of a man who unexpectedly transforms into a flock of birds.
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Canada Line X

Versions ready to be composed along the final piece, a layer of the cityscape after being worked on digitally:

As also the completed footage for the color palette transition, from the city into the countryside.

Canada Line IX

Asides from the minor collaboration on the rotoscoping process, the focus of my production  also included the color palette whirlwind here are some stills from the process, this half corresponding to my own work. The final result being completed in collaboration with Rockey Chen.

Canada Line VIII

Additionally, the rotoscoping of the puppet into paint was done by Janice, previously counting with 12 frames from the puppet, in order to transit from one medium to another. A sample of this process can be seen as follows, the stills are taking from the capture station from which the final versions were done, the green background corresponds to the post production step of keying out the painted silhouette only.