Sturm_experimental animation inspiration

Three Scenes of the End - Jeff Bloomer
 If Bird of Devil - Jeff Bloomer

Sturm AE Assignments

big bro. from sarah. on Vimeo.
AE Experiment

AE Intro Assignment

Sturm_Sand Experiment

Sand Version Sturm

Chang_Struggling Windmill

windmill from David Chang on Vimeo.
the prompt was Windmill, Struggling, Disney

Strand_Experiment 3: Sand Stop Motion

For our experiment, we worked with both paper cutouts and sand.  We used simple shapes, with an emphasis on learning the most basic advantages and disadvantages to the media.  We created a basic impression of creatures interacting in a watery environment.  A positive consequence of keeping the material so simple was that we were able to shoot more frames - thus, we were fairly successful at creating smooth movement within the composition.  However, we might benefit in the future from doing such an experiment with more complicated forms.

* I added some weird sound to this; I was just experimenting with vast, watery noises.  I'm not really sure if it works with this piece, though.  -Sarah

Rogers_Sand Art Experiment

This animation was an experiment in forms that lend themselves best to the sand art medium. We found that continuous line forms and circular gestures are the easiest to make and animate, but in order to create visual interest we had to manipulate the sand in more complex ways. In the future, I would like to create more elaborate forms over a longer period of time, because I feel like sand is a good medium for complex designs to emerge.

For my sound experiment, I used a number of different rhythms I found appealing in order to create an ambience that lends itself to the piece, both backwards and forwards.

Argiroff_sand experiment

Stop-Motion Animation Sand Experiment from Emma Argiroff on Vimeo.

In this experimental animation, Duncan, Beiatrix, Alexa and I tried to capture the reproductive nature of bacteria, essence of plant growth and humor of a public bathroom. We did not follow a specific storyline and instead explored how we could continuously transform the sand to achieve the overall effects we wanted. There are some spots where the animation jumps a little because there was to much of a transformation between frames. With practice, we will get better at judging the amount of transition that should be made. The sound effects are meant to provide additional interest and a quirky twist. They are done by layering final cut pro and apple foley sound effects. If we were to do another animation we would explore using our own sound effects. Overall, we are happy with our creation.