Visual Language 20: Form, Flow and Force research 3: Rayman Origins

Rayman is a unique character in the sense that he doesnt have arms or legs, he only has hands and feet. This leads to some interesting effects when making him run and punch. This makes the fist movement a lot more emphasised with more blur and secondary movement. Furthermore the world is extremely vibrant and active so everything seems to be very bubbly and bouncy.

Visual Language 19: Form, Flow and Force research 2: Prince of Egypt (Chariot Race)

After watching the prince of Egypt again recently i noticed how good the animation is for its time. I wanted to talk about the chariot race scene because there is a lot going on and the way the characters are animated to react to certain movements of the 3D rendered chariot i found very cool. They move very smoothly when reacting to curves and slight inclines but still react to jolts of the chariots knocking together. Something very else that i found interesting was how smooth the animations for the characters were yet the horses seemed to be a lot choppier, perhaps they needed more reference for the horses animation.

Visual Language 18: Form, Flow and Force research 1: Thought of You

Thought of you is an animation of two people dancing. The two people seem to represent two different elements, the woman who seems to be air flows like a cloud, slowly and lightly and the man seems to move like water, smoothly and with a lot of easing in and out. Together them dancing is very pretty, every movement has some kind of follow through action to emphasise it. At one point the woman becomes a light strand and this emphasises the flowing movement of her without constraining movement to joints.

Visual Language 17: Form Flow and Force

For this study task we had to do some life drawing. I'm quite confident in my life drawing skills so i looked forward to it. 

We started by drawing a few poses of someone as they move through a space, giving each drawing 10 seconds each. This was a lot of fun and i was left with some really interesting figures and shapes.

We then drew people expanding and contracting with 20 seconds per pose this time. Again i think this gave me some really interesting pieces. 

Then we drew 15 minute poses of people pulling and pushing objects, showing a force which though i think my images are a good quality i don't think they show pulling or pushing very well.

Finally we drew a 30 minute pose which was also successful.