tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5929150461646356892.post6811857235758656420..comments2024-02-16T14:53:20.404+00:00Comments on The Spectacular Science Blog: Lifecycle of a Mushroom: Animatic 1tutorphilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11842833126210822641noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5929150461646356892.post-8764051259700406202011-09-01T09:29:48.027+01:002011-09-01T09:29:48.027+01:00Hi Tom,
I just had a look at your pitch and.... a...Hi Tom,<br /><br />I just had a look at your pitch and.... at first I thought that combining your jazz-theme with the growth of a mushroom - this cannot possibly work. No way!!! but then I watched your animatic, I was very surprised to find that it DOES work. It shouldn't, but it does. I agree that the karyogamy and meiosis scenes are far too long (in meiosis you only have two divisions, which produces 4 cells), however, the text scenes are far too short. Maybe you can adjust the timing and then you have a fantastic animation. One thing you might wan to experiment with (and I don't know, whether this is technically possible) is to make the animation look 'old', with some specs and a bit more flickering in it. At the moment, you have a beautiful 'old' style of scenery, which matches perfectly the soundtrack. But the film looks too modern. I am not sure, if I can express myself correctly here, but when you look at the haunted house it indeed looks like an 'old' film. <br />Whatever you did with this project - it just works (and it shouldn't), so great job. Show me more!!!!!!!!!Peterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09302800688830650690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5929150461646356892.post-81683624634864560932011-08-29T11:03:39.574+01:002011-08-29T11:03:39.574+01:00Hey Tom,
Great to see thing and in broad terms it...Hey Tom,<br /><br />Great to see thing and in broad terms it's working charmingly; I love the nods to early animation with the repeated movement cycles and 'bounce, bounce, bounce' - and similarly, some of the prolonged sequences just feel part of this tradition and I'm confident anyway that you'll find suitable and engaging ways by which to keep your audience from drifting. Obviously, in terms of the rules of the pastiche, that front-on style is perfect, but it just seemed to me when you told the audience about the 'rings of mushrooms' that somehow this scene could show the ring itself - maybe as an ariel view of the bouncing mushrooms or, maybe even with a nod to the routines of celebrated choreographer Busby Berkeley? Indeed, 'a touch of Busby' maybe what you need to enliven some of those reproduction scenes - a sense of bringing 'patterns' out of the organic and also showing the scale of the process?<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIO9y1xMPIA<br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akET7aP01_8&feature=related<br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1B3z2ImFH4&feature=related<br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNW-AzZdBRU&feature=related<br /><br />Disney pastiched Berkeley's style in the wonderful 'Be Our Guest' number from Beauty & The Beast - wherein it segues nicely from three-dimensional animation to 2d graphical style:<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_h3Cvs1caeA<br /><br />You might want to look at the big musical sequences from swimming superstar Esther Williams too - though I've struggled to find anything that's not a lame fanboy tribute...<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riJPHfQJ6r0&feature=relatedtutorphilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11842833126210822641noreply@blogger.com