Author Archives: Matt

To choose an Animation – clever, favorite, best, most inspiring ?

Although I love many forms of animation I don’t think I’ll be choosing any of my favorite animations, there not actually they type of thing I’m interested in creating. I don’t really want to be an oo lip modeler for … Continue reading

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Temporal Imaging begins

Semester 2 see the commencement of Temporal Imaging. We have a couple of tasks to look at, a short stop motion piece, we have to choose and discuss a piece of animation. I’ve had many thoughts about the stop motion … Continue reading

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From e-media blog to general art school blog.

Looks like I’ll continue this blog on. I need a journal and am far to disorganised to keep a book. I do tend to scribble ideas / take notes but they tend to be on what ever is close I … Continue reading

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Assignment 3 – Reflective statement & Loop

Reflecting Loop I was pretty happy with this project, mainly because I was very close to giving up on it, for something I was more comfortable with. I tend to try to be too cleaver with thing , but in … Continue reading

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The Slow loop

Here is the slow version of the loop. I tried youtube and then embedding and adding a loop property to the video but it kept buffering even when fully loaded. So I have gone with a flv. As mentioned in … Continue reading

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Sound. What ? not more last minute audio.

I actually though about audio from the outset of this project, options were feet running, breathing , bush noises, simple repetitive strum of guitar etc. But when I cut the footage together I liked the on camera audio, you could … Continue reading

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Critique

I think the loop went down pretty well, most people thought the fast version was better, Fuel up on anxiety and coffee I would have to agree with them. But its not quite that simple the slow version also works … Continue reading

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to slow-mo or not slow-mo

It took a lot of messing around but finally I found a setting where the slowed footage works at about 1 third speed. I was up very late playing around with the slowed version tying it with and without dissolves. … Continue reading

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Adventures of cutting in iMovie 09

I imported all the footage from my camera and out of interest fired up iMovie 09, I heard it’s actually meant to be a useful piece of software as apposed to previous versions. Its actually fantastic for making a rough … Continue reading

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Looking for a way out

I was very tempted to drop this idea, was worried that i was trying to force something out of a flawed idea that was already compromised before even really starting. The lecture on the loop spawned many ideas, of all … Continue reading

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