2D Animation Style Research

The Duck from Simon Cottee on Vimeo.

A rough art style focusing on simple emotion.


the dewberry empire from christian schlaeffer on Vimeo.

Lush environments and foley / sound on rotoscoped children / animations.




An Object at Rest from Seth Boyden on Vimeo.

A loose style on  a textured medium.



The Waldgeist & Me - Joe Bichard from Joe Bichard on Vimeo.

A flat animation that uses a childish style to make light of the more darker theme.



PLUG & PLAY from Michael Frei on Vimeo.

A striking animiation of black and white, teh message is very.. uneasing? And hard to understand, but definately makes you feel -something-. Simplicity being key.



To Venner / Two Friends from Profile Pictures on Vimeo.

Beautiful landscapes backed up by simple characters, beautiful story. A visual beauty. Mature



Chronemics from Animade on Vimeo.

What if darkness was like water, but light was light. Simplicty in it's strongest form.



Writers' Block from WÖNKY Films on Vimeo.

Very Creative use of the story, integrating the literal script as to whats happening, something i think i may be able to pull off, maybe.



PostHuman from Colliculi Productions on Vimeo.

BAD, ASS. Brad would probably love this, mature.



A silly unpolished animation, The Happiest monster shows how low budget and rapid development is fine. It doesnt take much to show your story and have something to enjoy.



LUCKY DAY FOREVER from Alek Wasilewski on Vimeo.

Using the styles for diferent ideals in the story, simple character design but complex scenery.



Keith Reynolds can't make it tonight from Felix Massie on Vimeo.

An interesting simple style.

Path of Exile, an ARPG with a harsh style and interesting spell effects.

A controversial rant without lip syncing, showing emotion and relative metaphors.

Ori and the blind forest is a BEAUTIFUL game with an art style I wish I could achieve, but I feel i arn't up to the level.

WAKFU, a turn based game that uses a grey line art style and 3 turn shading. Similar beautiful colours and backgrounds to ori, something I wish I could do.





The Terrible Thing of Alpha-9! from jake armstrong on Vimeo.

Beautiful, and doable.
I'm going to be going with the Alpha 9 style, perhaps with a simpler / skinier arm / limb type.

Skinny arms / Rick n Morty style etc

I'd like to do my comic story, where a Boy is in a hospital, he sees the world as weird, and disgusting, the doctor comes in, the boy has his medicine and everything goes to normal, then he walks outside and we see the world really is weird and disgusting as the boy saw.

Boy sees the world in a warped view, after medication he returns to normality, but the weirdness was reality all along.

But i'm aware of the time constraints and i'm unsure if this story would be big enough.

BDM124 - Stop Motion Animation Styles

https://www.shortoftheweek.com/2015/01/15/for-the-love-of-god/

The above is a very viseral and surreal style of stopmotion, it seems to use a wax style. The story itself and the style is very creepy in it's realism and surrealism.

https://www.shortoftheweek.com/2015/06/29/miss-todd/
A stopmotion based on 2d perspective characters and poseable parts, akin to what I think would work for this assessment.

https://www.shortoftheweek.com/2014/07/28/marilyn-myller/
A dramatic series about a sculpter, made totally out of floam, with light to give definition.

https://www.shortoftheweek.com/2014/07/08/retrograde/
A short about two civilians left behind on a station, the captain has set the station in a collision course to prevent an asteroid from destroying a city on Uranus, these two save themselves but not Uranus. Akin to the Miss Todd style of using 2D animation for character faces and hands, but this uses textiles for the bodies of the characters.

3D Stuff!

My passion is 3d geometrical design. Just some greyboxing concept stuff i've been working on.

Reminder Blog post: To Do

Review following animes:

Gargantia

Corpse Princess

Deadman Wonderland

Lagrange: The Flower of Rin-ne

10:04

Ergo Proxy

Super Robot Wars

Vandread

Infinite Stratos

Manga Artists / series to review

Tsutomu Nihei

BDM142 Digital Media - Issue with 3d Element - Gun

Following the theme I chose, which is Military themed poster from WW1/2 (more writeup about that to come) I chose to replicate some guns in maya as my 3d element. I broke up the gun into a few pieces, mainly the complicated and the, atleast what i thought was, the simple. I've run into snags where trying to get an overhang etc to look right just isn't working. So even more so i'm going to have to start again and break it into every visible part so the polygons for each piece is as simple as possible.

Storyboarding goodness!

Getting used to storyboarding, using actual scenes as a reference is VERY helpful, along with understanding my perspective lives.