Wed, Dec 1st : Collaboration with Colin

Today is an important day for a BFA student under the wing of BFA advisor, Colin Ives. Today we'll be meeting with Colin in order to discuss our progress, and projected goals. Synchronicity worked in my favor last night, as a flood of interesting and new ideas entered into my sphere of perception. Many of these ideas are in fact due to my expanded sense of animation, that has been cultivated through the excercises of my primary class this term at the U of O; Experimental Animation.

So let's get to it.

There is now access to Motion Capture equipment through my friend Cooper who works here in the Science Dept. of the UO. So that opens up new doors to possibilities, and expands both my understanding of this world, and so i want to talk to Colin about this, in fact, check out this little playblast of my friend Cooper doing the Tai Chi segment called 'Ward Off'.


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I love the idea of using Motion Capture data to add a bit of sauce to the environments of the Zosseous, to be shown in Temptation to Fail. I am thinking it is possible to use this very same Tai Chi data in order to duplicate a number of low-res figures, like a class with an instructor, doing Tai Chi together on some back lawn of the Zosseous.

So imagine people doing Tai Chi in the background of thise frame of Fuhiyo and Margwa walking.


FINAL PROJECT

This directly applies to Colin, and my interaction with the course he is hosting (Experimental Animation) because with any luck, I will be able to use it in my upcoming final project, to revamp Assignment #2.


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This will hopefully not only compliment the growing ending for the Temptation to Fail, but it has also unlocked a whole new outcome for the story. The connection our growth/union/events between the group of characters, leads to their eventual progression as individuals. This was always the hope of the story, and it was to be represented by a change in the characters skin tones and attitudes. That all remains intact, but I am thinking now that instead of the quick-flash ending for the story which was the initial approach, I am now excited about trying to work in a sense of the relapse of time. Now that these characters have resolved their karma, time resets itself to when they first meet, and yet the time which we watched as "the Temptation to Fail" is not unexisting. Which is a way of saying that, although time has relapsed, it retains the progression or evolution that was achieved through their emotional turmoil. There are many implications to this, which may be chewed on at a later time.

the CITAN STORY

Statement Two of the ZoZe epic is one that I am very excited about. It is often the enticer, I use to sweeten the deal, and encourage other people to implement their talents into this little story/world that is being fleshed out in the imagination.
Where Temptation to Fail is trying to be a sturdy, and thoughtful dissertation on the cyclicular nature of depression and relief (or something).
the Citan Story is just good ol' fashioned Character Hero Worship. About an elite Ninja Assassin Hitler Youth named dJaigoroh , who is sent to track and kill the figure head of an ancient nations lead Historical and Medical institution. the man he is sent to hunt, Citan, is a Medical proffessor, as well as an archaelogist and Martial Artist, and the foremost authority of the Worlds history and an expert with the subtle energies of ZoZe. As the assassin pursues the scholar he is drawn into the quest to obtain or safeguard ancient relics of a long-dead institution and the power which is locked inside these relics.
The initial story will involve the search for one of these objects, as the Citan departs his nations capital to visit the outskirts of civilization, to a more back-water, podunk, city that is caught in grips of mob warfare and a hub for an evil nations slave-trade. The Citan must navigate himself carefully through the dangers presented in this city, and weave the two mob bosses into destroying each other, so that Citan may safeguard the relic of the ancient insitution. All the while, the Assassin falls into fascination with the sword that the Citan carries. Seldom unsheathed, the blade breaths a sort of ancient and immutable wisdom.

I would like to use an approach similar to the pictures I have linked to below.




I would like to convey the story through a sort of DVD interface, and enlist my very talented friends, and my own animation abilities into making animated sequences of key moments in the story, i.e. Fight Scenes (!!!)

Well, it is about time for me to meet and talk with my BFA advisor, Colin Ives. I am looking forward to this, because this man has been another great influence on the crafting and exploration of this experiment in story unfolding. Many of the techniques, and ideas that will be integrated into the ZoZe epic are directly related to the challenges and enlightment that Colin has passed on to me through his Class and Person.