Studio Brief 3 - Life's a Pitch

My collective consists of Myself, Meg and Jay. 

As a group, We wanted to create a small piece of work that would be a collaborative effort across our course. We wanted to use the opportunity of our University exhibition at the end of the year to get our names out there, and create a piece that signifies animation as a whole.

I came across this gif by an illustrator called Mikkel Sommers. I was drawn to the idea of having so many different styles and mediums compacted into a simple gif of a walk cycle. I showed this to both Jay and Meg and they seemed keen to help create something like this for the exhibition. The idea is to create a basic walk cycle template that we would distribute to people on the Animation course, and have them design on top of the template. We hope that the distinctive styles will stand out, but the gif as a whole will flow quite nicely.

(example of a walk cycle template)

Another idea that we had was to have 3 seperate animations that demonstrated a certain aspect of animation. For example, the walk cycle would be one of them, a bouncing ball would be another and a character turn around would be the final one. 

The idea is that each frame would be drawn by a different person, so a different character would be created. 

This was a sketch I created of what the exhibition space could look like. We would project the 3 animations on a wall and have a contact sheet on the walls with the persons name underneath, as well as their contact details so people who were interested could contact them if they wish. I feel as though this concept could be a perfect way for us to demonstrate what animation is, as well as helping our peers to network. 

Another idea was to create our walk cycle into a Zoetrope. I think this could be a cool way to demonstrate a modern approach to animation in an old-fashioned way.

 The roles - I feel as though it would be a collaborative process that would require a lot of organisation on our part due to us having to depend on other people to create what we need. Obviously, we would contribute a frame each, but I feel as though it could be hard work to stay on top of it all when this would require a lot of people.

Our Target Audience - at the end of the presentation, Mike asked if people would part take and everyone in the class put their hand up. this was extremely encouraging as I was worried about putting forward my idea. Because our piece would be part of a large exhibition that includes work from our class as well as illustration and graphic design, we want it to stand out to practitioners that would hopefully be attending the event. We also want to target young creatives like ourselves.