Preludes Mosebetsi wa Mantlha: Animeishene ea Mokhoa o Kopantsoeng by Matthew Rankin

Preludes Mosebetsi wa Mantlha: Animeishene ea Mokhoa o Kopantsoeng by Matthew Rankin is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 Moputso oa Tšepe oa A' Design Award in Moralo wa Filimi, Vidio le Anime Competition Category.

TšepeFilimi· 2020

Preludes Mosebetsi wa Mantlha: Animeishene ea Mokhoa o Kopantsoeng

by Matthew Rankin

Client: Matthew Rankin

Moputso oa Tšepe oa A' Design Award Winner in Filimi Category

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The Design

About Preludes Mosebetsi wa Mantlha: Animeishene ea Mokhoa o Kopantsoeng

Sengoloa sa Buka: Preludes ke animeishene e khutšoanyane ea mokhoa o kopantsoeng e thehiloeng ho thothokiso e nang le lebitso le tšoanang ea T.S. Eliot. Filimi ena e nka motsotso o le mong le metsotsoana e robeli mme e kopanya litšoantšo tsa Eliot le tlhophiso ea 'mino e ncha. Liketsahalo li kopantsoe ka sehlooho le ka molumo ho e-na le ka mokhoa o le mong oa pono. Mosebetsi ona o kopanya animeishene ea 2D le 3D, e entsoeng ka Cinema 4D, ea hlophisoa ka Redshift le ho kopanngoa ka After Effects. Maponto a tlase ho ea holimo a fetohela boemong ba seterata, moo batho ba fetang ba bang ka morao ho lisirisi. Animeishene ena e fana ka mehopolo ka bophelo ba kajeno ka sengoloa se seholo sa boholo-holo.

The Recognition

About the Moputso oa Tšepe oa A' Design Award

Preludes Mosebetsi wa Mantlha: Animeishene ea Mokhoa o Kopantsoeng ke mohapi oa Moputso oa Tšepe oa A' Design Award, kananelo e hlomphehang e fuoang meralo e metle e finyellang litlhoko tsa porofeshenale le tsa indasteri tse lebelletsoeng ho lintho tse hlahisitsoeng tse entsoeng hantle. Bahapi ba Tšepe ba bontša bokhoni bo boholo, bokhethehi bo phahameng, kutloisiso ea litsebi le bokhoni ba boqapi ba baqapi ba bona. Preludes Mosebetsi wa Mantlha: Animeishene ea Mokhoa o Kopantsoeng e lebelletsoe ho ba ntho e hlahisitsoeng e hlomphuoang haholo, e ratoang le e ratehang, e sebetsang le e nang le mehopolo e mecha. Moralo ona o hapileng Moputso oa Tšepe oa A' Design Award o kenyelletsa mekhoa e metle ka ho fetesisa ea indasteri mme o na le litšobotsi tsa theknoloji tse nang le bokhoni tse amanang le tsebo le talenta. Ka lebaka la botlalo ba eona, Preludes Mosebetsi wa Mantlha: Animeishene ea Mokhoa o Kopantsoeng e tšoanelehela tlhompho mme e entsoe ho fana ka ntlafatso ea bophelo e thusang ho etsa hore lefatše le be sebaka se molemo.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

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.
Team Members: Director/Animator: Matthew Rankin
Producer: Max Rothman
Music/Sound: Angus Macrae