Test with Null Objects and 3D layers from Michael Shaw on Vimeo.
For this test, I wanted to experiment with one of the other stories I wanted to work with, "The Boy Who Cried Wolf." In its current iteration, the boy dials 911, calling the police to his area. As he hides in delight from those he pranked, a burglar appears, and shoots the boy.
It's a working idea, and I plan to revise it a bit, making things seem more logical as they happen.
I wanted to use the 3D layers and null parents to slowly reveal parts of the environment and the setting. Some shadow puppetry artists play with the distance of the characters to the light they use to project sihlouettes to give the viewer a sense of depth. I tried to simulate that here.
The null layers are used to move specific parts of the environment, almost like a working camera.
wow! I really like this one. I think your depictions of the characters is working really well, especially the police. My only criticism would be about the opening screen. I think it is a good way of presenting the story, yet I'm kind of confused at what I'm looking at. at first, i didn't know what it was, then I assumed maybe it was the police station's call log to try and figure out where the call came from which I got by the question mark? at the bottom. But noticing later that it is supposed to mimic a cell phone maybe, I guess you meant it to be the child's phone, which is unclear. If it is the child's phone, I don't know why medic and f.d. is listed. It kind of just complicates things. He should only be contacting the police and maybe not even numerous times. I want to be seeing this as if its the first or second time he's called, even if that seems illogical because already it is illogical since he's calling the police even though they are already there.
ReplyDeleteThis was an interesting animation. I like where you are going with just using the silhouettes for the figures. My only thing is wondering how you could have maybe pushed the background a little more because the buildings seemed too light when it was suppose to be night time.
ReplyDeleteNice job on this! The color scheme is nice and the characters are done well. The texture in your pieces are great also, gives it a good feel. Only thing i'm not sure about is the cell phone in the beginning, at first it kind of looked more like a list till I watched it again, Perhaps just scale it down a little to show more of the phone.
ReplyDeletethe animation is extremely well done. i agree with Kassey that I want to see the cellphone with only "police" written on it because it looks like he's calling a million emergency services at the same time. and maybe you might want to consider not even having the cellphone because is it really necessary? the police are already on his tail.
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