Creative Studio - Transdisciplinary Animation Project

15/9/2016

Animation Project

I have decided I want the project to be about Seasonal Cycles in Fashion combined with 2D animated Time-lapse animation. Confusing? Probably. 

When I say time-lapse I want to show the changing of seasons and at the same time use a similar technique displayed in Satoshi Kon's animation "Ohayo" where the character leaves an after image of themselves. I want to use something similar to distort time. 

This idea came to me when I was researching seasonal fashion. In my findings I discovered that fashion items for specific seasons are put on show weeks before the actual season. But also that specific seasons stay in stores for longer than others. This is mainly because the seasons in between the main Spring/Summer and Fall/Winter are trans-seasonal and work well when mixed with other clothing from other seasons.

The brief I'm writing up seems a bit everywhere as I'm still figuring out the scope of the project. 

Production schedule, I hope to spread out the work as evenly as possible so I don't end up cluttered with work all at once.

Creative Studio - Exquisite Corpse Animation

Exquisite Corpse Animation

My contribution to the Corpse animation sequence. 

It goes from a simple blue bunny that breaks off into pieces to create Michelle C's Teru Teru Bozus.

For those who did not know:

Teru Teru Bozu is a japanese doll made of white paper or cloth. It is said to bring sunshine and prevent rainfall.

Ultimately hanging it upside down is said to bring rain.

Creative Studio - Transdisciplinary Animation Project

13/9/16

Trans-disciplinary Animation Project

I'm still partially confused about the project but I think I 'm understanding it better.

Since I haven't been updating about this project at all I'm going to go through my research process and my thought process along the way.

The secondary discipline I've chosen to integrate into the animation process is fashion, more specifically Seasonal Design.

I wanted to look into the way a designer looks at shape and colour when designs focus on a season.

The fashion Seasons are Spring/Summer, Resort, Pre-fall and Fall/Winter. 

In a design process for a Fashion Designer the first thing that is done is a Fashion Forecast.
The images here was grabbed from https://fuel4fashion.wordpress.com/2013/10/11/the-fashion-design-process/ to show what a part of the design process would look like.

(This is what the research stage in animation would be.)


Image from http://goo.gl/CQFZNJ

Then they begin making mood boards and conceptualising ideas. It then leads to making mock ups of the garment; which is where 2D ideas are being transformed into 3D soon to be wearable pieces. A lot of adjusting is done at this stage until the designer is satisfied they begin selecting fabrics and trims then goes into production.
A designers colour palette selected in sync with the fashion forecast.
It is then matched to the closest Pantone colours (which is a system for matching colours).


 Image from http://goo.gl/NV77Ox
When the garment has been pieced together its final details added it can be sent off to a show and or store.

Prior I was still researching to make sure I understood the discipline better.
There was lots of reading articles about a designers process and how they try to predict new trends.

I guess at this stage I'm wondering about how I would integrate Seasonal Design into the Animation Process.

References:
https://www.businessoffashion.com/articles/intelligence/secret-journey-fashion-piece-part-1-creativity-design
https://fuel4fashion.wordpress.com/2013/10/11/the-fashion-design-process/

http://www.teonline.com/knowledge-centre/textile-designing.html

http://www.colormepretty.co/categories-2/4-season-color-analysis/

http://www.colormepretty.co/my-blog/
http://www.rochelehirsch.com/coloredgesuzannestheory.htm
https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/08/17/goethe-theory-of-colours/
http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0767755.html
http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/t/fashion-design-process/
https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2013/jan/01/fashion-global-market-seasonal-collections


14/9/16

Trans-disciplinary Animation Project

After more thought and research I decided to integrate seasonal design with layering and possibly looping. It's related to the common factor that as the seasons cycle through the year you find that the amount of layers of clothing worn changes too. For instance in winter lots of layers are worn to keep warm and as it changes to spring them summer less and less layers are worn but then autumn follows so the layers start coming back until it loops back to winter.
I felt that this could be integrated with animation loops and layering.

I'm not sure if this is what its meant to integrate into animation but I will run this by the lecturer just to make sure I'm on track.

Another Idea was if I looked at different animation styles that evoked a seasonal feeling and 'stitched' them together into an animation.

This is hard because I'm worried I'll end up animating about my chosen discipline instead of integrating an aspect of it into the animation.

Creative Studio - Abstracting

Abstracting

To take an idea/process/feature and boil it down to its essence and or to find the similarities between things that seem very separate. 

Task:

To create a visual analogy of your chosen discipline as a creature or character design.

I haven't mentioned what my second discipline is so I'll explain it a bit here.

My chosen second discipline is Fashion; more specifically I'm looking into fashion seasons and how to integrate it into the animation process. I'll go more into detail in my next post.

Currently, for this task I have created a fabric roll creature as a visual analogy of my discipline.

It is called Fabrilette and its special ability is Illusion Weave. With it's ability it can unroll its fabric to create a stylish illusion over a person. 

It can change its colour to suit the person but it starts off as a blank white roll.