Onderzoek en ontwikkeling (4)
I tried lip sync of one sentence in after effects (with photoshop). The conclusion is: it is workable, but difficult. Must find a balance between nice forms and fluent animation. Below is the animated one sentence. He said: No, my work for Spain is in Spain.
Here I put down the content of the whole conversation, recorded during a visit of friends couple (see my previous article). Abreviationa are: Jose(the husband) - J; Bing(the wife) - B; me - Y.
Y:Why did you come back this time for one week? Is it about your work from Spain, or...?
J:No, my work from Spain is in Spain.
Y:...Okay, so...
J:I came back because of them, you know.
B:Because of what?
J:Because of them. Because of my wife and my daughter. Because of the 'can you come? we don't have dinner?'
Y:Ha! That's why. They need you...
B:To cut the meat!
Y:You are so important.
B:The man who cut the meat!
Y:To cut the meat and get the bread.
B:He, for us, is the man who cut the meat. You know? Otherwise we don't have meat to eat.
Y:Ah, really tough.
B:Ja.
J:No you have some meat but not cut.
B:we don't like. I like small pieces of meat.
Y:How do you like your new job in Spain?
J:Well, the new job is just writing the thesis. Ja, I do like, and not only that, I feel... why so many?
B:We only have the cheapest onion for our guest. We have no money. No money, no food. And I am tearing.
Y:I am so disappointed. I am eating the cheapest onion.
J:Not only the cheapest onion...
Y:Thanks to you. I have never tasted it.
J:Did you notice? The population of ducks has decreased dramatically this week.
Y:The population of what?
J:Ducks.
Y:Oh ja, I didn't see any ducks. Because of the financial crisis?
J:No, no no. Because I came on Sunday. I came this week.
B:Don't joke with the poor ducks....Oh, my eyes!
Y:And the sheeps?
J:The sheeps still there.
Y:Ducks first.
J:They have owners.
B:Do you agree people are onions...people are like onions.
Y:I like onions.
B:ah?
Y:Onions?
B:has many layers.
Y:How are you going to cook it?
In the film I will put in subtitles to make it easier to follow.
The dialogue, as most of the talks we held in daily life, is rather random and obscure by the first sight. Therefore I will put into images and movements that kind of annotate the dialogue. So everything will make sense to the audeince in an absurd and exagerated way. Pseudo south park or the simpsons.
Not trying too hard to be funny, the design of the characters will have a simple, matter-of-facts style, as show in below.
I plan to settle the design of the characters and the backdrops by this week. I will start animation and work further on the sound by the next week. The animation will take about at least 4 weeks, I think. With rendering , postprocessing it will be about another 1 or 2 weeks.
ON THE WATER just won Best Animation award of I've Seen Films Int'l film festival!
Best Student Animation, animation festival Zwolle, 2011, the Netherlands
Best Int'l Student Animation, Animarte festival, 2011, Brazil
SICAF 2011, South Korea
Corti da Sogni – Antonio Ricci - Int'l Short Film Festival 2011, Italy
Since April ON THE WATER is being distributed by Marvin&Wayne short film distribution
Everyone is entitled to a boat, and is bond to that boat. There are all kinds of boats - row boats, race boats, cruisers.... (somebody is born to be rich or powerful...)
The sea can be beautiful. Sun shine in your face, wind is with you, future is rosary. You yell :"I love my life!"
Exciting news came:"With the latest developments, soon no one will be rowing boat anymore - we are all gonna arrive 'there' on highways in no time!"
Dis-illusion is unavoidable. Sooner or later. At certain point of your life.
And there are for sure moments, that you have to fight, just to keep your head above water.
Life must go on. Before you know it, you start to have your own family, bringing new lifes onto this sea of time.
Burden and responsibility become the main part of your life. You are not just for yourself anymore. You begin to believe there is no other meaning of life except.
Never give up.
