April 17, 2023
Above Image, Computer Animation & Storytelling, UVA, What Time Is This Place Exercise, Kirby Cheng, 2019.
ARCH 423/523: Computer Animation And Storytelling
Due: In-class screening May 3, 2023
Exercise 2: What Time Is This Place? *
Create a 1 to 2 minute animation with human, machine-like and/or anthropomorphic form that incorporates varied rates of time (e.g., time lapse, real-time, frozen moments), and possibly reconstructed passages of time of real or imagined events, or revisited points of view repeating the same period of time on the same event. This exercise is open to liberal interpretation. Optionally, incorporate sound either in terms of captured voices, synchronized sounds or short musical passages. Email a description of your efforts to Earl Mark with you submission of the project in your course server submit folder. The references below contain links short written passages by the Kevin Lynch and Rainer Maria Rilke and a video that may be relevant to your approach.
The interpretation of the exercise should:
1. Use ergoman (a hierchically linked human figure) or similarly hierarchically linked objects.
2. Create one or several separate sequences at the same resolution.
3. Work with one or more objects.
4. Optionally work with object instances via particles.
5. Render your work in medium raytrace quality.
6. Record your work to a jpeg animation sequence(s) and compile the resulting animation in OpenShot, Quicktime, iMovieHD and/or any alternative editor.
7. Place your work in you classes server folder under a subfolder named Exercise2 and submit a short 1 to 2 paragraph written description.
* The title of this exercise is taken from a book of the same name by Kevin Lynch (see below).