Baudrillard and Delilo

Another Collaborative work that is a response to Baudrillard's and Delilo's Text. (Read the text here).

This was actually a collaborative work that went a little south. A lot of drama involved in the production and as a result the outcome was not very satisfying. However, I did pull an all-nighter just to create few minutes animation, so I guess it might worth to show (or maybe not). The downfall part was the main idea basically. We slightly misinterpreted the text (as of many of our fellow students) and just followed the general idea that was already out there. This and added with our lack of group work in creating this piece of work, thus this video.

Rotoscoping

A collaborative work with Roger Merzian, a fellow media student in UNSW. This is a response to a text by Toop.

The Idea

Text four speaks of memories spurred from certain sounds and images. It was difficult to find a method in which a memory could be animated and a message could be given clearly. The decision rested on a guy dealing with dishes late at night. The sound of the water running and the pouring rain outside reminds him of walking in the city with his girlfriend. One aspect clearly defined in the text was the fact that these memories were not specific stories or extravagant in any way. Therefore the walking in the rain with a girlfriend was the memory which spurred from the sound and images of water and rain.

The Animation

With the animation, I was using rotoscoping technique to trace the couple in his memories. This was meant to emphasize the ‘imaginary’ or ‘past’ part of it. The water from the tab and the rain are rotoscoped because the sound that came out of those is part of the trigger for the memories. In the beginning part, the man is outlined by a simple rotoscope with a line that has a same colour with the water, with this, I was meant to show that the water (represents by the blue colours) ‘triggers’ the man and similar method was applied for the rain.

Screen Grabs:


Click HERE to watch the full video.
*I tried to upload it in Youtube but it messed up the quality of the animation so I uploaded the .swf file instead.

Scratch Animation

A scratch animation response to A text by Aden Evens.

"It is true that there is always a point at which the signal is masked by noise. variations of a certain subtlety are so small as to be absorbed into the background of fluctuations of pressure, the constant movement of the air, the vibrations of the earth. What is this noise but cosmic vibration, the fused sum of all the vibrations to reach this point in time and space? Vibrations do not disappear, but dissipate, echoing all the while, for energy is conserved. Every vibration, every sound, hangs in the air, in the room, in bodies. Sounds spread out, they become less and less contracted, they fuse, but still they remain, their energy of vibration moving the air and the walls in the room, making a noise that still tickles the strings of a violin playing weeks later. Every sound masks an entire history of sound, a cacophony of silence. Even our bodies hum along with the noise of universe. (At its most disparate limit, noise dissipates eventually into the tiny motions of individual molecules, which is to say, heat.)"

Screen grabs:

Click HERE to watch the Scratch Animation.

Tribe Character

Brief:
Create an animated single character interface that represents a cultural
tribe of your choice.Your character interface needs to include two rollover animations. These rollover animations must express something about your chosen cultural tribe in relation to three out of the following four concepts:
• Hybridity
• Difference
• Gender
• Cyborg

Outcome:
The character is an IT worker who works 24 hours a day because he is part of the IT emergency team in a telecommunication company. This means he is very attached to technologies, which explains the headset, laptop, computer, cell phone, flat screen TV, robotic dog and the multifunction remote in his desk.

Click HERE to see the character
*I uploaded the .swf file because it needs to have an interactive interface to see the whole animation. Point the cursor and click on the lamp for gender, the window for difference and the robotic dog for cyborg.

Here are the screen grabs to get an idea of how it looks like:


Gender (Lamp)
In this scene, the character is given an order by his boss at night but then he passes it over to the woman employee, while he then back to enjoying his day by drinking and listening to music. This scene tries to show that women often get unfair treatment and have lower position in IT work field due to the minority of women’s involvement in IT job and men are the majority in this field, therefore they are considered to be more skilful. So women’s skills are not counted. I think this scene works fine as this situation happen a lot especially where the skill of women are hidden behind the men domination. In addition, the picture of opera house is a painting that tries to stress that he is a Sydneysiders and the robotic cat shows the attachment to technologies.

Differences (Window)
In this scene the character is compared to the regular worker/IT worker who works on regular time. The character uses more high technological gadget (computer, headset, phone) and looks unhappy because all his time is used for work (spend lunch time at the office [smoking and drinking coffee], while still paying attention on the system and must work at night), while the other uses paper and pen on his work and happier as he can have more leisure time (listens to ipod, has lunch with his girlfriend outside the office and sleeps at night). The scanned text is a text from computer system from a magazine, which tries to show the character’s skill identity, which relates to a complex computer system (same thing for same text in the gender scene). I think this scene is a bit weak, as it seems there are other worker that do similar things as the character but are not working in IT area.

Cyborg (Dog)
In this scene, the character’s car is shown to have high technologies system that helps him on doing his job as he might/must work while he travels. The system works as he presses the button on the wheel and as he mentions the key words for the actions (the screens that pops out and the phone that dials automatically) since the system uses a voice censor that is connected through his headset. This also shows his cyborg identity as he technically ‘wears’ and is dependable by those.

Email Advertisement

Screen grabs of an animated poster:

Beginning

Ending

Click HERE to look at the .swf file.

Brief: Create an animated bill poster or flyer that promotes a cultural work or event. It must be suitable for distribution within social network sites and via email.

Outcome:
A bill poster for a music event for an Indonesian newcomer acoustic band called D'Cinnamons.