20.01.2014
9:00 - 11:00 am ( 3D Animation, Soft Image )
Media Lab, Aalto Univeristy
Lecturer: Kai Lappalainen
Lecturer: Kai Lappalainen
The observation of the 3D Animation lecture at Aalto Media lab was also very interesting. The session started with the lecturer showing some early animation films from the Russian animator Fyodor Khitruk, ‘Man In The Frame’, which wittily satirized the stultifying two-dimensional life of a bureaucrat.
The lecturer asked students to analyse the animation form the conceptual point of view. For example there were many metaphors that were used, the frame as a boundary that protects the bureaucrat. The frame gets thicker and more ornamental as the bureaucrat progresses in his career, symbolically saying that the more one creates an image around them the more their life becomes constrained. This animation was made in the seventies and is a critique of the Soviet time in Russia. It is graphically inventive and uses stop motion effect, with a neat visual style.
This was an interesting lead into the technical aspect of creating a 3D motion effect where students had to create a movement of hitting someone. They had to use key frames and animate a series of poses: Starting pose, anticipation, stronger anticipation, hit contact.
The lecturer used quite of lot of body movement to show many small details that need to be taken into consideration, lowering the arms, elbows pointing a bit outwards in 90 degrees. Then how to start building the anticipation of the hit. Rotating the right shoulder backwards, rotating the chest backwards whilst keeping the eyes on the victim.
The lecturer asked students to analyse the animation form the conceptual point of view. For example there were many metaphors that were used, the frame as a boundary that protects the bureaucrat. The frame gets thicker and more ornamental as the bureaucrat progresses in his career, symbolically saying that the more one creates an image around them the more their life becomes constrained. This animation was made in the seventies and is a critique of the Soviet time in Russia. It is graphically inventive and uses stop motion effect, with a neat visual style.
This was an interesting lead into the technical aspect of creating a 3D motion effect where students had to create a movement of hitting someone. They had to use key frames and animate a series of poses: Starting pose, anticipation, stronger anticipation, hit contact.
The lecturer used quite of lot of body movement to show many small details that need to be taken into consideration, lowering the arms, elbows pointing a bit outwards in 90 degrees. Then how to start building the anticipation of the hit. Rotating the right shoulder backwards, rotating the chest backwards whilst keeping the eyes on the victim.
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