Friday, July 6, 2012

Project 3: Animation

Sunset Chapel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaF0vSXKoyQ&feature=youtu.be


WIP

The inspiration for the video came from the word contrast that was emphasized by the architect firm itself. 
To achieve that emotion, the presence to two types of roses were used to show that the same object, but different in colour, can gives such a contrasting impact. A storyline is produced first before the video was started, to give a rough idea for the flow of the story,

To achieve the final video, steps were taken to carefully place the camera to achieve the scenes above.


The story starts with the introduction of the white petal from the rose starts to fall, then focusing the view to the sunset chapel. Materials were bumped to achieve a more realistic effect onto each materials.


Lighting were turned on and the sun was placed near the horizon to obtain the sunset effect, and the camera was placed based on the rules of third.


The details were added to add more impact on the scene itself.



This video focuses on how would one feel when moving through the spaces, therefore the path created was based on the steps of the floor, and pulling the track up to a human eye level.



Details such as a casket, and later a bouquet of flower with a pair of rings, is to further emphasize on the contrast between the experienced space, of how this single space celebrates life and death.



Shadow-play of the building details can be seen as this scene shows he movement of the sun, elongating the shadows onto the opposite walls.



A time laps scene shows how the overall building interacts with the surrounding details, blending this great building to the site context.



The closing scene summarizes the whole story where both the red and white rose interlocks each other, showing that two identical objects can be symbolized at such a contrast in ones' point of view.



The scene was stitched together with windows movie make, and a few transactions were added to enhance the emotions felt when experiencing the Sunset Chapel itself.
Finally, ending the whole process after rendering the movie into a video file.


Programmes used for this assignment was:


Google Sketchup
3d Max
Windows Live Movie Maker

Song used:

Once upon a Time in Mexico - Tommy Montoya