STUDIO PROJECTS 2015 PRESENTATION KOMAL AHMED U1471806 BA HONS ANIMATION & MOTION GRAPHICS ART DESIGN ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL, UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD
A CONVERSATION PROJECT
CONVERSATION BRIEF Taken from Conversation Assignment Brief on Unilearn: https://unilearn.hud.ac.uk/bbcswebdav/pid-1362807-dt-content-rid-2074884_1/xid-2074884_1 “ A Conversation: capture of “ A Conversation” and apply explore could include: the most appropriate medium. Take time to develop ideas and experiment with difgerent media, — Visualising a conversation between Print materials and technologies. two people. Tiis could be spoken or Play with instructions, take turns, possibly a more creative Poster, Fanzine, Book, Fashion, participate and interact. conversation acted out through Ephemera, Manifesto, Magazine, — studiomoniker.com workshop activity or creative play. Direct Mail, Campaign Posters, Advertisement, Script, Photograph. What’s the most important conversa- — A conversation between yourself tion for today? and technology (Sofuware) iPhone Screen What’s the most important conversa- Apps. tion for the future? Web, App, Film, Animation, Info Who will you speak to? — An external, political or social graphics, Motion Graphics, Gener- conversation that you may support or ative Design, Game, 30-second TV Tirough the application of your contest. spot, Social Media, Twitter, chosen practice you are asked to Instagram, Facebook, Flash Mob, research a develop a visual outcome — Interrogating the movement of a Behance, Blogcentres around the idea that centres around the idea of ‘A physical activity. A football match. A of ‘A Conversation’ . Conversation’ . Basic examples or walk in the park. A bike ride. starting points you may want to We also want you to consider the
initial brainstorming Social Networking Virus My fjrst initial idea was Linkedin , By talking with many people at as it is a professional use, virtual University, I got the second idea, employment, post in discussions, i.e. virus Ebola, which is a technical expertise and many today conversation. more. Scotland Issue Facebook is one of the Tiird idea is Scotland issue, communication methods, where whether Scotland wanted to be a most people use it. part of England or not. Tiis issue had been stretched in the medias, which I thought about to make a conversation out of it.
Chosen topic VIRUS EBOLA Tirough my research I have found It gives an example of a man called a scientist’s newspaper: “Laboratory Mabalo Lokela in West Africa, in the News, Tie Scientists’ Newspaper”/ end of August, 1976, had been taken September 2014 / http://www.lab- ill. Where he started to vomit news.co.uk. Can we Stop Ebola?” uncontrollably, developed acute diarrhoea, headaches and had Tiis newspaper have a lot of good diffjcult to breathe. His nose, eyes and information about virus Ebola. As a gums began bleeding. On september start I needed this as I am making a in 1976 he was dead. Tiis was where conversation about Ebola virus Ebola virus fjrst was introduced. interaction with human body. Moreover, Dr Seth Berkley of the “As the body count continues to rise – GAVI alliance, an organisation do we have any defence against Ebola promoting vaccination in developing Virus?” nations, mentions about that Ebola is a horrible disease but then there Tiis questions to readers whether we are many other bad ones that kill far can stop it. In this case this can be more. I will able to use this formed another conversation whether information for my upcoming we can stop it or not? research.
Microscopic images of animal Tirough my research, I went to Science Building to get some samples from the lab. Tianks to Professor Ibrahim, who permitted me to use the microscope for and human cells both samples of animal cells and human blood cells.
storyboard
clay modelling I was inspired by Shaun the Sheep but at this stage I didn’t complete it as clay modelling. At this point, it was quite complex. I created Ebola and hammer with plasticine as it was easy to use and it gets never dried for my stop-motion animation. Moreover I tried to model a man but unfortunately it didn’t turned out well, so I decided to use wood fjgure manikins as a start then wrapped with plastic so I can put the clay mod- el of it. I was trying to make Shaun the Sheep model technique
COMIC BOOKS FOR INSPIRATION A feedback from Darren Raven was Tiis idea will approach me for to use a real human, it was a sending the message to people about challenge for me as it is not easy to the awareness of Ebola so that they make a stop-motion with using two can prevent themselves before the difgerent objects, i.e. clay model Ebola virus Ebola enters into their body. and the real human. I thought of using a real man model. By seeing one of my colleague’s comic books, which inspired me of making a conversation between the Ebola and the human by using speech bubbles.
ANIMATIC STORYBOARD
DEVELOPMENT I have created cut-outs of the real Here I created cut-outs of my clay model Ebola. Tiis looks more inter- image of an Ebola and added a esting and also a bit grotty look. I have used this for my stop-motion an- string as I wanted to make Ebola imation. But I have added no strings at the back due to I felt it was quite move easily while doing stop-mo- diffjcult to manage to take still images and move around. tion animation.
AVATAR MODEL & cut-outs Tiis avatar model is taken from I have made cut-outs and changed slightly from the original avatar freepik.com . model. To make it a bit difgerent and have my own character. I did use the same clothes style and colour as it looked quite nice. I just changed a bit of her hair but used the same colour as it looks nice and fjts with her shoes.
facial expression Tiis image is taken from Pixeden. My interest is more focused on the facial expression and I slighly changed the colour of the eyes and lips, and added some blush on cheeks. Each facial expression is set up in order for my stop-motion animation, When Ebola introduces himself then she is confused at fjrst then later as in frames by frames you can see at the fjrst she is thinking and when she thinks about whether ebola is the virus where everyone is talking she fjnds out something. To the next when she says thank you afuer when about. Ebola says yes he kills people and she is shocked by it. She is ebola says she is looking cute. scared and starts to cry before ebola kills her with his axe.
EBOLA VS GIRL ANIMATIoN FILM
REFLECTION I am very satisfjed and happy with the outcome for my animation piece. Tiis has been quite while extended as I have used my time to make things like cut-outs I would at least say it’s been ages for me to do cut- outs stop-motion animation. Tie more I understand the concept and theory about the frames, the easier it was for me to do this kind of work. I am very satisfjed with my work.
H U D D E R S F I E L D V E R N A C U L A R P R O J E C T
Huddersfjeld Vernacular Brief: 1. Group Tasks: ‘Tie term vernacular design refers to artistic and - A group of 4-5 people from animation and technical expression broadly characteristic of a locale motion graphics course or historical period; it closely relates to retro design. Vernacular design is the paraphrasing of earlier - Spending time together in the Huddersfjeld Town for commonplace graphic forms, such as baseball cards, observing and documenting of what we see, hear and matchbook covers, and unskilled commercial experience. illustrations and printing from past decades.’ - Capturing as much of vernacular elements, objects, (Qoutation taken from Meggs’ History of Graphic activities, sights, sounds, etc. By these Design by Philip B. Meggs/Alston W. Purvis) factors they make Huddersfjeld what it is. Tiis project will allow me to work with my peers, in - Building a shared group resource of our collected order to explore the nature of vernacular, research. collaboratively assemble, share and analyse research and then individually work up with - Developing a number of shared concepts and ideas concepts and outcomes. that each member of the group can individually explore, experiment with and develop into an Tiis project has 2 tasks: individual outcome. 1. Group task: to collaborate and share research 2. Individual Tasks: together. 2. Individual task : to develop and produce my own Developing ideas and producing of a variety of concepts individual outcomes. for a maximum 30 sec of animation or piece of graphic image that uses the theme of Huddersfjeld vernacular from the group research.
G R O U P B R A I N S T O R M I N G
We together collected some ideas of what we each individually want to research about by making a mind-map:
I have created a storyboard of how my animation piece will look like:
In this animation fjlm, you will see the alphabets are moving forward to indicate of people walking and same time the background texture is moving faster, as it shows many difgerent places of Huddersfjeld. My aim is to show designers of how we can perceive objects by looking at it and how we can create them into shapes or forms for typography and also whether they can reckon these patterns in Huddersfjeld.
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