Submission

First Assignment (Audio) from Jack Vanes on Vimeo.
Second Assignment (Animation) from Jack Vanes on Vimeo.

Story Synopsis and Treatment

Synopsis

A crime-based art film animation featuring a mysterious illuminating figure. The film is proposed on the concept of visualisation. It will be set in a black and white environment with the mysterious figure lurking into a dark clock store. The dark scenery suddenly changes after an accident that occurs in the store. 

Treatment

The film will be created in a graphical vector-based style using semi-figurative visualizations for the animation process. In terms of lighting, the scenery would be solely black and white to fit the intended mysterious noir theme. The camera angle stays mostly on the side view of the character to take the audience through the journey of the character.

This independent film will be short, therefore the timeline will go at a rather fast past. The idea of the film is to show art in a form of animation, which instates an animation film between figurative and non-figurative. Multiple sound effects have been used in the process with the animation visually generating shape correspondence to the background audio. Examples of sound effects being used include car screeching, glass breaking, doors opening, footsteps and ticking. These sounds would be generally mixed in a rhythm and in line with the animation flow.

The inspiration for this animation is with thoughts that a conceptual appearance of a mysterious anonymous figure changing colour, which is conflicting to its background would deem as high visualisation presenting in animation.  It would also make the figurative character extremely clear. The meaning of the film will be the separation between dark and light, with the idea of switching moods. The story was originally planned to be literal to the soundtrack but the idea was later changed to make the animation a bit more intriguing. 

Submission

Delicious Peace Edit


Delicious Peace from Jack Vanes on Vimeo.

Group Project Edit

Group Project from Jack Vanes on Vimeo.

Fairly Legal Edit
Fairly Legal from Jack Vanes on Vimeo.

Bingo the Clown

Bingo The Clown is an early animated short film that won 4 awards. It is known for bringing in photo-realistic detailed rendering as opposed to Toy Story, which was limited to the cel-shaded rendering at the time. The film is also known for the dynamic movement and the mood defining effects.


References:
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/chris-landreth-expands-creative-and-technological-boundaries-with-bingo-75860272.html
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0193771/awards

Additional documentary

To further add to the essay subject, here is another documentary that explains how computer generated imagery evolved from a computer line drawing technique called vector graphics in the 1960s.

Finalizing

I have included a fade out to the Delicious Peace edit to flow well with the fade in from the beginning. The two last projects have been colour corrected.

Delicious Peace


Delicious Peace from Jack Vanes on Vimeo.

Group Project



Group Project from Jack Vanes on Vimeo.

Fairly Legal


Fairly Legal from Jack Vanes on Vimeo.