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Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Pics and Words

Some good preliminary drawings Tuesday –
Flower pressed against window, etc.
Storyboard 1 ready for class next T 2/7.
Change to original post: So much to do, don't worry about posting images to blog just yet.

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Raye's Story

The poem inspiring my animation is “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost. I want to emphasize the decision and the religious ideas I take from the poem. I want to have a character that the viewer is watching make the decision and then at the end watch disappear down “the road not taken.”

“The Road Not Taken” By Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth

Then took the other, just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim

Because it was grassy and wanted wear

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black

Oh, I marked the first for another day

Yet knowing how way leads to way

I doubted if I should ever come back

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference

reference images

Michelangelo's "Prisoners"
Matisse figure abstractions/stylization
inspiration for closing scene, Signorelli's "Resurrection of the Flesh"

Monday, January 30, 2012

Cindy's Story

Howdy! Couldn't remember if we were required to post our story or not. But if you wouldn't mind reading it and adding some "Yes ands" it would be greatly appreciated.

You're staring at a dark and grimy tank, when you hear a switch flip. The tank's lights slowly start to flicker on... There's a small stream of thick, dirty water pooling up at the center of the tank. Slowly as the water continues trickling down the wall, clear fresh water soon surges through the crevasses creating a magnificent waterfall. Then, before your eyes, you see green shoots sprouting out from the water's edge and spreading further out. Slowly mosses, bromeliads, vines, and grasses start sprouting up, claiming the tank as their own. Before your eyes, the desolate tank has turned into a lively rainforest. A croak shocks you out of your reverie, with a startled glance you witness a small blue frog shatter the mirror like quality of the water with a hop.