Besi Filem · 2020
Preludes Fungsi Utama: Animasi Media Campuran
- A' Design Award Besi 2020 in Filem
- CLIENT: Matthew Rankin
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 12,675
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About Preludes Fungsi Utama: Animasi Media Campuran
Teks Buku: Preludes ialah animasi media campuran pendek berdasarkan puisi berjudul sama karya T.S. Eliot. Filem ini berdurasi satu minit lapan saat dan menggandingkan imejan Eliot dengan komposisi muzik asli. Adegan-adegan dihubungkan melalui tema dan bunyi, bukan melalui satu gaya visual tunggal. Karya ini menggabungkan animasi 2D dan 3D, dimodelkan dalam Cinema 4D, dirender dengan Redshift dan dikomposit dalam After Effects. Pandangan udara beralih ke tahap jalanan, di mana watak-watak saling melintasi di sebalik skrin. Animasi ini merenungi kehidupan moden melalui teks yang lebih lama usianya.
About the A' Design Award Besi
Preludes Fungsi Utama: Animasi Media Campuran ialah pemenang A' Design Award Besi, pengiktirafan yang berprestij yang dianugerahkan kepada reka bentuk yang baik yang memenuhi keperluan profesional dan industri yang dijangka daripada ciptaan yang direka dengan baik. Pemenang Besi menunjukkan kemahiran yang besar, kepakaran yang tinggi, kefahaman pakar dan keupayaan kreatif penciptanya. Preludes Fungsi Utama: Animasi Media Campuran diharapkan menjadi ciptaan yang sangat dihargai, dikagumi dan disayangi yang praktikal dan inovatif. Reka bentuk pemenang A' Design Award Besi ini menyepadukan amalan terbaik industri dan mempunyai ciri teknikal yang kompeten yang dikaitkan dengan kepakaran dan bakat. Preludes Fungsi Utama: Animasi Media Campuran dihormati kerana ketelitiannya dan direka untuk memberikan peningkatan kualiti hidup yang membantu menjadikan dunia tempat yang lebih baik.
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.
