Heidi's M.Island

welcome to the rice fields

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Here I've referenced Rodin's Thinker for the pose and annotated it accordingly, the similarities are quite obvious and the two have almost an identical stature; the only difference being the one hand raised to support the thinker's head.

In my work I can also see inspiration taken from characters like the tellietubbies for the antenna in a weird shape:

But then yet again, a more sinister turn took to it with the blood on the claws. The ripped face on the base of my character was just a generic one at first, but then I found this image and decided to try and model it to look like the referenced picture to the best of my ability.

I think this picture perfectly sums up the outcome.

In my work, I also recognise Evil Edna from Willow the Wasp as the TV head with a face and crazy expression.

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Frames for the animation made on krita animate!

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The first layer is the song, which I cut to make it shorter but had to align with the same words in later part so it ran smoothly. This was all done with the scissors tool. I also added the 'dip to black' transitions between all videos except the quick time ones. I chose this transition as it looked the smoothest between all videos.

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Inspiration

For my video, I took inspiration from many things such as the lyrics from the song itself. “They’re buried under the snow” and “The trees don’t need to know” are the two lyrics that inspired meet create the entire video, and the two lyrics that stuck out to me the most. Another video is the girl with the dragon tattoo, I love how the choppy video gives the extra edge and insight to what’s going on in it. 

https://youtu.be/DqQe3OrsMKI

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Finished!

I added a title sequence and end credits, but added them a layer over the effects so you can see the static over the top of the titles. 

I used GPF and Adobe Rush as well as Audio converter to edit this! Putting the effects on was very simple, in the app GVE you play the video of choice and just hold down the effect over a time period and then export everything at the end. 

I’m really happy with how it turned out! Although I would’ve like the credits to roll from bottom to top at the end, didn’t have enough time to complete this objective. I’ll add screenshots of the apps used when I can.

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juST INCASE I LOSE IT SOMEHOW

(not finished)

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I created the entirety of the audio and video in Adobe Rush and used GVE (an app) to add glitch effects and tv static. I didn’t use the computer to edit any of my video as I prefer using a phone- it’s a lot less complicated and I had trouble exporting videos off my hone to the PC. To create the animation at the start, I drew and exported each frame onto my camera roll and imported them into the app and then the video, in order. Each frame has a different screen time as I wanted it to play as if on an old broken camera, janky and rustic. 

The next thing i need to do is layer up effects, add a title sequence and animate credits at the end.

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For my game piece model, I took heavy inspiration for the body from multiple sources. Some from a character in a video game called the last guardian: Trico.

I used the posture and stance as a reference for how I wanted my sculpture to sit and move. The size reference came from several sources such as this game, Shadow of the colossus and Tomislav Jagnjic.

Size contrast inspirations for my model and how I want the human to ‘monster’ ratio.

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These are two (unfinished) tiles!!

When the player lands on them, the player rolls a dice between 1-6 and takes the number of damage that was rolled on the dice. I have still yet to make the card that goes with the tiles and type write the information to go on it.

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This is the finished product! There’s ten frames in total and I really like the outcome. Something that I wish I could change was how smoothly it ran and how jolty it looks. Also, if the opportunity of more time was given, I would add colour and also a little character popping out the middle of the ‘donut’. I love the stipling effect on the middle building. The process of creating it is down below.

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Creating a Frame Animation

To create this little animation, I first set the frame rate to 0.2, as no delay was too fast and bumpy, though maybe 0.1 seconds would have made it more smooth. 

Then, after arranging the frames to how you want them to look and play, you change the image size to 72.

Export it so it can be viewed on the web! (your Tumblr!)

This is so you can see the playbak. 

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Finally finished ((:

I added some shine with pva glue but would have preferred to do it with varnish, I also added glitter with highlighter to dust and finish it off. One thing ive noticed that I'd like to change would be the ribs- i'd indent them instead of scratch them in, so that they painted over more evenly.

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juST INCASE I LOSE IT SOMEHOW

(not finished)

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As you can see I brushed up on my sculpture quite a bit, I used a dry brushing technique and added pieces of wire with hot glue, as well as some accessories to go with my character. This is the  almost finished product! I left it’s feet unpainted but dirtied the bottom, and attempted to paint the base as if it was part of a grimy sewer. a lot of effort and detail went into this and I’m proud of how it came out! I wish there was a little more detail on the face (screen) but I can edit it in the future. 

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This is painting pt.1! 

Just some test colours for the body and base colours for the head before adding much more detail. One thing I wish I could change about my model is the scratches in the arms as they didn’t paint over too well, as well as the little details of cuts in the shoulders. 

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Nick Park

As an English animator and director, Park is also a writer. Though he’s better  known as the creator of Wallace and Gromit, Creature Comforts, and Shaun the Sheep, his style widely varies from that of Tim Burton’s as it’s much more colourful and child-friendly, whereas Burton’s style and storyline is meant for more darker-minded audiences. I feel like the animation of Park’s is a lot more simple, as shaun the sheep doesn’t have any fingers or parts of him that move much, aswell as Wallace, it’s just a much more simple character to animate. 

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Vincent Price

“An American actor best known for his performances in horror films, although his career spanned other genres, including film noir, drama, mystery, thriller, and comedy. He appeared on stage, television, and radio, and in more than 100 films.”

Some of the film’s he’s starred in include; Edward scissor hands, House of wax, and House on Haunted Hill. 

His role in Edward Scissorhands was that of Edward’s father, his inventor. The inventor’s untimely death left him with scissors for hands instead of being fully complete- Vincent was the inventor. 

Another movie is House of wax; 

 “A 1953 American horror thriller film, about a disfigured sculptor who repopulates his destroyed wax museum by murdering people and using their wax-coated corpses as displays. Directed by Andre DeToth and starring Vincent Price, it is a remake of Warner Bros. ' Mystery of the Wax Museum” 

And the last;

“Price plays an eccentric millionaire, Frederick Loren, who, along with his wife Annabelle, has invited five people to the house for a "haunted house" party. Whoever stays in the house for one night will earn $10,000.”