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2 comments:
Dear, Ramzy
These thoughts pertain to your questions.
1. I think that keeping the uniqueness to the actual object such as the eraser shavings is crucial to your animation. Producing another level of digital form making might restrict you from the literal aspect of using lead. There was your first animation where you did use a digital tool in a hand rendered style. So Im sure it could make an improvement but its how you want to subvert or imply a certain irony. I personally like the simplicity of the pencil though.
2. The only real hand generated difference is in scale where I can make out the detail of a stroke and imagine many strokes filling an object. The way you zoom in and out makes the transitions almost seamless. There are some point in the 3 lines traveling upward that seem to actually stop. I think this is evident because of the detail in the stroke weight and needs special considerations to its movement.
3. Again I think the characteristics of a pencil adds something to this animation, There is one odd smudge that appears right before the P goes off the page on the sharpen verb that seems awkward.
4. Putting the metaphor of sharpening before writing and erasing help the viewer understand the sequence of verbs and I believe evokes that interest at the beginning to understand what is going on. Its a great balance to the other two literal transitions.
I thinking the size of the eraser used seems really tiny.. compared to the size of the final pencil being erased. Do you think widening the erasing marks would be interesting?
I also think there is a little bit too much shifting on the zoom out of writing..
ok im done
seeya!
ramsisco!
Excellent work on your animation! I can definitely see the improvements you made to the lighting problem you were having between photographs- it's a lot more minimal now. But I do enjoy that we still get a hint of it, along with the obvious pencil hand rendering of all your actions, as well as the smudges and imperfections that come with it. Which brings me to one of your questions! The irregularities really emphasize the fact that you are animating what a pencil can do. It's a pencil. It smudges and smears and can get pretty messy. So I think it was a smart move to leave all of those imperfections alone, and just let them illuminate the quaintness of what you are working with. As far as it being more specific, I'm glad you didn't go that route, because it could have easily become cheesy if you over-emphasized those points. It works just as much as it needs to in all of the eraser shavings being purposefully built up at the end, so I think anymore of that kind of language could be too much. Because if you look at the actual forms of what is really being drawn, it is really modern and clean, with the linear sans-serif font you were using, and the thin strokes forming a set of letters, etc. That modernity could have easily been drowned out.
I'm actually not quite catching the two hand-generated methods... I know they are there, but they are just so well integrated that it's not noticeable. So it's obviously not distracting.
The transition from metaphorical to literal actions is not distracting either. I think it's nice looking at it from a larger perspective in the metaphorical realm at first, and then closing in on something more specific, something more literal. It's an elegant transition. They compliment each other very well, and the flow from one to the next is really well though out. Well done.
Digital usage? I'm glad you stayed away from it. Although your font choice may have benefitted from something cleaner, like a vector, I still don't think it would have outweighed the hand quality that really makes this animation memorable.
One thing I think might improve it though- just lighten up the whole thing a little bit- the yellow seems a bit muddy in general, and I can remember how bright and cheery your original yellow was, like in your storyboard. I miss that! But, minor details. Overall, I think you put a lot of time into this, and it really shows! awesome!
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