철 영화 · 2020
Preludes 혼합 매체 애니메이션
- A' Design Award 철상 2020 in 영화
- CLIENT: Matthew Rankin
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 12,675
- Verification code 64F372FE8A · Verify this award
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About Preludes 혼합 매체 애니메이션
《프렐류드》는 T.S. 엘리엇의 동명 시를 바탕으로 한 혼합 매체 단편 애니메이션이다. 1분 8초 길이의 이 작품은 엘리엇의 이미지를 오리지널 음악과 결합한다. 각 장면은 하나의 통일된 시각적 스타일이 아니라 주제와 사운드를 통해 서로 연결된다. 이 작품은 2D와 3D 애니메이션을 결합했으며, Cinema 4D로 모델링하고 Redshift로 렌더링한 뒤 After Effects에서 합성했다. 항공 시점은 거리 높이의 시점으로 전환되고, 그곳에서 인물들은 화면 너머로 서로를 스쳐 지나간다. 이 애니메이션은 오래된 텍스트를 통해 현대의 삶을 성찰한다.
About the A' Design Award 철상
Preludes 혼합 매체 애니메이션, 이 작품은 A' Design Award 철상 수상작으로, 잘 디자인된 창작물에 기대되는 전문적·산업적 요건을 충족하는 좋은 디자인에 수여되는 권위 있는 인정입니다. 철상 수상작은 창작자의 뛰어난 기술, 높은 전문성, 전문가다운 이해, 창의적 역량을 보여 줍니다. Preludes 혼합 매체 애니메이션, 이 작품은 높이 평가받고 감탄과 사랑을 받는 창작물로서 실용적이고 혁신적일 것으로 기대됩니다. 이 철상 수상 디자인은 업계 모범 사례를 통합하며 노하우와 재능으로 연결된 유능한 기술적 특성을 갖추고 있습니다. Preludes 혼합 매체 애니메이션, 이 작품은 철저함으로 존중받으며 삶의 질을 개선하여 세상을 더 나은 곳으로 만들도록 디자인되었습니다.
Press Kit
- Unique Properties
- Preludes is a mixed media collaborative animation based on a poem by T.S. Eliot. The process involved the poem being chosen by the producer, who then invited a musician to compose a one-minute piece which was handed off to me to provide to create visuals on both the the words of Eliot and the music.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Duration: 1-minute, 08-seconds
- Tags
- poetry, animation, motion graphics, 2D, 3D, after effects
- Production Technology
- Preludes utilizes both 2D and 3D animation all composited in After Effects. The scenes with 3D were done in Cinema 4D and rendered using Redshift. It also uses several After Effects plugins such as Video Copilot's Sabre, Rowbyte's Plexus, and Red Giant's Particular and Form.
- Design Challenge
- The challenge became putting the many ways this manifests into only one-minute and matching those visuals to an already created musical composition. And that's how an aerial view helps to alienate us from the tracking signals on the street and we are suddenly shifted to street level view to see faceless people bumping into one another with screens blocking the vision.
- Research
- For this project the research fairly straightforward. It started with a cursory reading of the poem, Preludes by T.S. Eliot, and listening to the soundtrack created by Angus Macrae. I listened to the audio repeatedly to let it sink into my memory and to help with visualizing general concepts. This was followed by seeking out deeper analysis of the poem so that I better understood the themes, ideas, and symbols. While I could certainly have skipped this step it was profoundly important as I went along and was searching for visual fragments to add to the density of the piece.
- Inspiration
- Preludes is based on T.S. Eliot's poem of the same name and a one-minute musical soundscape provided to me and composed by Angus Macrae. The whole project was organized by a group called Campfire Poetry that uses poetry as away to promote collaborations between musicians and animators.
- Project Duration
- The project was started 20 December 2019 in New York City and completed in February 2020.
- Operation Flow
- I was immediately drawn into Eliot's non-narrative and slightly abstract form, even though he was describing a very defined and concrete world. I took that as an opportunity to create scenes that were thematically, but not necessarily aesthetically, connected. Instead, I chose to let Macra's soundtrack be the connective tissue weaving together Eliot’s view with my own as I explore how our modern world looks and feels in the context of Eliot’s ideas.
