DHA 2311: Drawing and Illustration, Fall 2008

In my last year writing intensive English course, we did a project based on the Allegory of the Cave, a fictional dialog between Socrates and Glaucon, in which Socrates starts a parable about people in a cave who are chained since their childhood and how the illusion of fire and light play into their reality and rescue. In our group we had a guy who was well advanced in Flash (I did not even know what Flash was at that time:). And he made this simple animation akin to the video I posted below and it was really fun to see how simple you can be in Flash without really making it too sophisticated. Therefore, I want to do simple lines of shapes that interplay while metaphor some of them into another shapes, objects, values, etc.

Posted by Kaamil Haider at 12:26 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

I didn't post any images for my animation progress so far.

I'm actually having problems with the animation, because my computer is being very slow so it is hard to edit timing. Hopefully it will work out.

Posted by attin002 at 9:28 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

heres a rough story board i'm working on to direct my animation.

In my animation, I'm going to focus on a hippo who finds himself in the heart of a desert without any water and when he reliezes where he is, he starts to cry, until his tears make a new body of water and he isn't so sad anymore. :)

Posted by silva039 at 3:14 PM | Permalink | Comments (6)

Right now, I'm leaning toward a sort of "snaking" animation where different elements arise from a common linear element which travels throughout...whether or not that makes any sense I'm not sure. Anywhoo, I'll have a rough sketch of it ready for class so hopefully that will be more clear. I'm still kinda bouncing around other ideas, some with text perhaps, but I'm still not sure. I'm also a little confused still about how all this works so we'll just see what happens right?

Posted by austi147 at 12:34 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)

Even though none of us probably speak Russian, I think this take on Winnie the Pooh is very entertaining, and the illustrations are pretty neat too.

As for my animation, I am thinking about having a snake that is slithering along and a bird flying in the sky. The snake then jumps up in the air, swallows the bird, and the snakes body take the shape of a bird that is trying to fly away.

Posted by Joann Dzon at 11:33 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)

I've decided to do my animation about two boys playing baseball. One will be the pitcher and the other one the hitter. The pitcher will throw the ball to the hitter, he'll hit the ball and it will hit the pitcher in the face. Then, the pitcher will catch the ball....and repeat. I was thinking after a couple loops of that then maybe the pitcher will throw the ball as hard as he can at the hitter and hit him in the face and then it will end. Anyone have any suggestions?

Posted by evenx016 at 8:34 PM | Permalink | Comments (5)

I haven't been searching for animation sites much this week. The weather was good and I have an acre of leaves to rake. So I raked like a fool. I did, however, settle on my 'moment in time' to animate. The things I wanted to do were gonna end up being something like 500 frames, so I just got really simple. Here is one of the frames. It's basically a moment where a really down person sees a pair of red boots, falls in love with them, and now they're all happy and stuff.

Posted by hicks130 at 7:59 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

For my animation I want to attempt to work with form. I'm worried it might look too choppy, but hopefully it will work. I kind of want to work with timing, and have a minor shock factor at the end. Maybe I will have organic blobs arbitrarily moving in space, creating curiosity, and maybe at the end one of them eats the other. Something simple like that. I'm curious to see how form will work, as it might not...

Yyou may have seen this video.... It is an example of how having the ability to make animations or moving images can be a really useful skill. The moving images in this video are pretty simple, and one can see how erasing and adding lines can create a sense of movement. The arbitrary shapes are relatable to what I want to try with my animation...

also, i feel it is necesary to pay respects. According to my film class last semester, this was the first animator in film. that is a big statement i know, if anyone knows otherwise let m know. i guess i see on a comment that emily cohl may have been the first in 1908. either way herre is Winsor McCay's, 'Little Nemo' from 1911. I think it is interesting the animation is described as a moving comic. Makes sense.

Posted by attin002 at 5:43 PM | Permalink | Comments (3)

I had a few ideas of what I wanted to do for my animation. Originally I planned on making motions or dance scenes to music, so kind of like the music video idea. But now I'm leaning towards my last idea of making an animation of a moment in time. The fall season inspired me to do an animation where leaves are falling from a tree and it shows how the tree also changes through this transition. As the leaves pile up on the ground, a large gust of wind blows through and the leaves blow back up onto the tree. I am doing this so that I can loop the video. It seems simple but could become very difficult. I will need to make my drawings more simple to be able to do this.

Here are some videos that I found that are simple but still interesting.
This one is of falling leaves and is very simple.

This just shows a moment in time using simple drawings.

Here is inspiration for my dance video idea. Love the A Night at the Roxbury/SNL "What is Love" inspiration for the second song.

Posted by ostby014 at 3:04 PM | Permalink | Comments (4)

I was looking at different animations on YouTube to help me get ideas for my animation (and I'm still not sure where I'm going with it). However, I do want to incorporate a few ideas seen below in mine. First, I really like the idea of a continous loop, but I don't want it to be just one thing over and over. Rather, I would just have the end of the animation connect to the beginning. I also like the idea of things morphing into other things. I'm not sure how abstract I want to get with that though.

The only real idea I've come up with is the animation beginning with the sun shining, a flower or plant growing and then turnining into something (not sure what), and that thing then turns into the sun shining and it starts again. It's kind of a typical illustration (how many times have you seen a flower/tree growing) but I want to make it different and intersting, and I will.

Posted by gess0029 at 11:15 AM | Permalink | Comments (3)

I'm having the worst time yet coming up with a concept for this project. I can't seem to think a) in animation, and b) in simple enough terms that my ideas are feasible. Everything I've gravitated towards so far has been something that'll be WAY too complicated for the short amount of time we have.

So I'm still thinking. I've got a couple themes that seem to keep coming back to me, one of them specifically is "rain," so I wouldn't be surprised in what I final settle on incorporates that in some way.

I also, at first, had a hard time finding any sort of inspirational videos, but thats because I didn't start on YouTube. But I found some good ones!

Continue reading "Sketchbook Post #6 - Micah" »

Posted by Micah Spieler at 12:07 AM | Permalink | Comments (7)

This video is slightly graphic, but it shows a simple way of showing motion.

I was inspired by Disney's Fantasia, the skating ice fairies in particular.

Here is something extra, the music video to "Take on Me" by A-ha. Incorporates animation into their video.

Posted by stree073 at 11:01 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

I'm extremely interested in animations. I really enjoy following 'mutations' of animations on youtube or niconico (japanese youtube). Basically, people take an animation from a show in Japan or draw their own, usually pairing it with a hyperfast song, then others create hundreds of different versions of the animation with different characters and scenes. I would really like to make one of my own, but I don't have that kind of time on my hands.

All the animations are after the cut.

This entry is duplicated for reasons unknown to me. I cannot edit the older version, which has broken links.

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Posted by grah0214 at 7:29 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)

So this is a small clip from one of my favorite Christmas movies when I was a little kid. I was watching it while working on my zine, unaware that our next project would be illustration. The entire movie is like 25min long and doesn't have any words. It looks like it was done with colored pencils. Enjoy. (The clip you are about to watch is one of my favorites from the movie. It is when the little boy and his snowman fly to the north pole for a snowman party thing).

Posted by pabic001 at 7:16 PM | Permalink | Comments (3)