Looking into trails for the inky female (2D)

Here are some research images to help myself and the other 2D animators get a feel and understanding as to the inky-ness i would like in the female character in the beginning. Looking into 'Fantasia 2000' (Firebird) aswell as 'Paranorman' and looking at the movements that Glen Kean brought across for the 'little Mermaid' What with her hair in water and how it moves around according to the body.

LOOM (HD) By Polynoid - particle research for I.A

This video is to show the particles i wish for the male character in Infinitus Artificium, who is going to be a dusty black shadow created through crumbling charcoal.

the scene which shows this is in 2:56 - 3:37

Norman McLaren Pas de Deux 1968 (infinitus artificium research)

This short film really inspired me, After a long discussion with others with how to make this project even better Norman McLaren was mentioned and after i researched his work i found this and beleive that it could be incredibly usefull to my project.

With this video i love the time lapse that is displayed by both female and male characters. I beleive this could go really well with the hope section as i was a bit stuck with it when i was creating the last animatic. I think that the time lapse idea could go really well with the movement and the emotion. It would be a nice change from the ink and charcoal trail.

The hope section will be done it 3d so we will have to do a few tests to see how the time lapse idea looks!

Norman McLaren - A Phantasy in Colors ( Infinitus artificium research)

Researching into how art and music can go well together i looked into Norman McLaren who is a well known artist of his time and looking through his work i can understand why.

This particular video caught my eye when i was amazed with the use of colours and artistic matterials. I found the dry cracked ink effect incredible and how it all moved and played with and like the music, Its amazingly put together and i really want this to show through my project. the ink swirls to flow with the use of the violins etc. It could be really fun to animate but it will be hard work.

Quayola and Memo Akten - Forms (excerpt)

LUNG CANCER FOUNDATION OF AMERICA - THE HAZE

CADBURY - ENJOY THE MOMENT

Art and animation research - Diablo III All Cinematics

With this video from 1:05 -2:00

Shows some incredible animation of both 3D and 2D.

i want to use that section as a reference to my animation with the inky smokey effects on the 2D work

Ink research

Noise Ink setup from Trent Brooks on Vimeo.

back ground research

PRESS + from ducroz on Vimeo.

This video is looking into different variations of backgrounds for this prject as i dont know what i want my dancers to be displayed on. id quite like the plain background with textured paper

RESEARCH for 3D

Phantom Under Water from BlueSandStudio on Vimeo.

Research I.A

The Storm from Benjamin Zadig on Vimeo.

Looking into particles for the 3D side of I.A

particle burst from Matt Chandler on Vimeo.

RESEARCH - chinese ink

Research for ink animation

Research into INK Animation

sound sculpture

unnamed soundsculpture from Daniel Franke on Vimeo.

Infinitus artificium - research

le ballet vimeo from louis thomas on Vimeo.

Infinitus Artifcium research

Wasted- Matthew Bryan by Raymond Prado from Raymond Prado on Vimeo.

Looking into the hand drawn concept. and how he moves around and experiments with the use of line work and imagery.

Infinitus Artificium - research

FRICTIONS from BURAYAN on Vimeo.

Here is another example of the power of the animator when in comes to animating with the human figure in both live action and editing.

This is a beautiful use of stop motion and live action! How the character interacts with the animation and work with it as one whole piece.