Level 6: Creative Studio: Draft & Journal Notes

Level 6: Creative Studio: Abstracting

For this we were tasked with creating a creature from our chosen discipline. My discipline is cosplay. The shell on the creature represents how most cosplayers start out very shy when they first cosplay. The wonky hair represents the beginners stage of wig styling and its little body represents the beginners stage of creating their first costume however its determined face shows the determination of the cosplayers and how they wont give up. Once transformed the creature becomes bigger and stronger. The hair is now looking sharp which represents the cosplayer has 'upped' their wig styling. Their body is stronger and bigger which represents the cosplayer has improved their costume making.

The creature's abilities are staying cool, great confidence and stealth. They may look strange but they are friendly and kind to others and though it still has great confidence it still remains a shy turtle.

Transdisciplinary thinking

So I've been really confused about this project for a while but I feel I have a better idea about it. 

As I've said my secondary discipline I've chosen is Cosplay and more specifically about breaking the cosplay stereotype. 

In some cases cosplay is displayed in a negative light and even suggested as a sign of mental illness. I wanted to that cosplay is just a hobby some people are passionate about and enjoy and in the end it does not matter whether a man is cosplaying as a woman or vice versa, everyone is the same.

As for the people who enjoy the hobby, I want to show that every time they cosplay they do feel like they become a different person a different person but again in the end they are still the same as everyone else.

Level 6 Creative Studio: Water Animation

This is my water animation I was supposed to finish ages ago. It is a little creature falling into the water and its freaking out but as it continues floating through it just gives up and doesn't care. I tried to use the squash and stretch to make the animation look more appealing. I did have other ideas for this animation but I felt like this idea would be cute and entertaining. My first idea was to make really simple and quite boring- a fish swimming through the water. Second idea was quite similar- a mermaid......so in the end I thought a weird small creature would be better.

Level 6: Creative Studio : Synthesizing

For this task we had to combine to transdisciplinary thinking activities together. I chose to put the creature exercise and the memory exercise together. The point of this task was to show how society works well together.

In this drawing is a child tree creature. i chose to combine these two exercises together for a personal reason. As a child I remember fun times playing outside with my friends, family members and even by myself. These days you don't see much kids outdoors. I think society works well together when everyone is outdoors playing around, being active or interacting with new people instead of being glued to their mobile devices or technology, yes there are social media websites that do the same thing but hey thats just me.

Level 6: Creative Studio - Exquisite Corpse UPDATE

Ok so screw the rest of my old ideas, I did a last minute idea and I think it really captures my animations creepy theme. Special thanks to Ethan for motivating and helping me. I kept trying to make everything perfect but I had to keep reminding myself that it does not have to be. My new idea is that my character looks around and because I wanted to stick to my creepy theme, their eyeball floats off their face and while it expands, my character starts to melt and becomes the water while the eyeball becomes the lantern.

Level 6: Creative Studio: Modelling

For this task we were supposed to try and draw the concept of time? And apply it with history...I didn't really know what to do so I decided to something about toys or how children's entertainment definitely has changed.....if that makes sense.....I'm sure heaps of people have done this already but this is what I did. I feel like kids standards in toys throughout history and especially in today's society have definitely gotten very high. It seems like children these days would want to spend their time cooped up at home on their brand new iPhone or smartphone instead of going outside and playing hopscotch or simply going out to play tag. 

In my drawing I'm trying to show how all these fun and joyful things have pretty much faded away because of these new and advance technology. Don't get me wrong I do happen to be too lazy to go outside and go for a walk but hey if my friends asked me to go outside and play hopscotch or tag hells yeah I'll join along XD.

Level 6 Creative Studio - Exquisite Corpse

We have been given the task of animating a Exquisite Corpse animation. Phoenix has given me her drawing for me to animate.

I'm a bit worried cause mine is the complete opposite of hers..........

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However this will be interesting to see what the transition will be. I have jotted down some ideas for what could happen. Because mine is a bit spooky I was thinking perhaps the animation will show my character opening its mouth and it will zoom in and there could something glowing inside. The closer it zooms in the entire screen will turn black and now its focused on the glow ball. It will then float around a bit and then.........and then I'm kinda lost from there....but I have gotten ideas from classmates. For example the camera will pan down to my characters hands and they will throw the lantern in the air, then it will transition into Phoenix's drawing. 

Another one is that my character will look to the side and they will get hit by a wave and then it will transition into the drawing. But we will see what happens.

Level 6: Creative Studio

I'm still having a hard time figuring out what I want to do for my discipline however me and other students went to see a Japanese animator Mirai Mizue. He creates abstract animation. I really enjoyed his work and it has really inspired me and I think I would like to create an abstract type animation for my work. I don't have a clear idea of what I would like to do but Mizue definitely has inspired me.

Trans-disciplinary

Last week my tutor went around the whole class to discuss what topic we chose for our creative brief/animation. I have decided that my topic would be about Cosplay because it is something I'm really passionate about. At first I thought I'd look like a mega weaboo but my tutor was surprisingly chill about it. The main problem with this topic though is trying to find the middle between animation and cosplay. I am a bit stuck on what to animate for the topic because I don't want it to be really obvious (does that make sense? Are you understanding what I'm saying??). Though we did talk about the how cosplay effects people -it makes them happy, they feel awesome because they've made something that they've been working on for ages, they can be whoever the want.-This led to identity with cosplay, I'm kinda leading a lot towards that mainly because I can't think of anything right now........But I need to do A LOT  more research on it.

Friend Animaton

For this task we had to pair up with another classmate and write down a quick brief of our memorable childhood memory. We then swapped our briefs with each other and then we had to animate their memory. My friend explained in her brief that she loved taking nightly strolls through the cemetery with her family. She felt calm and relaxed there so i tried to animate it through her youthful and childlike eyes. I know that she likes spooky things so I made everything kinda grey scale and just tried to capture the spookyness. I hope she likes it XD.

Comic Remix

For this task we had to create a comic remix. For mine I tried to make a parody out of the serious situation that is happening in this scene. In the scene a class is being held hostage by a group of evil henchman. In my scene even though there is something serious happening I tried to make it really lighthearted in a way, and tried to make it funny and entertaining. I cut out a character and added my own text.

Trans-disciplinary Exercise- Perceiving

Today Dane gave us the task of eating "unusual" foods and then to animate that taste. But not just taste it. We had to really think about it like how does it feel? What do you immediately think when it hits your tongue.....or something like that. This was a very funny and interesting exercise and I tried to get my brain and taste buds going. I tried a dried up Mandarin skin. In my animation, it starts off with a blob spinning around. I'm trying to show that the smell already is very strong and kinda had my head buzzing because of its overwhelming aroma. Once it touched my tongue immediately a powerful taste just bursted out like.......POW!!! I tried to make it kinda abstract.......did I succeed in that? 

I do think I should have added more colours to this but all I could think of at the moment was orange. Maybe I even could have some swirls or waves going around the blob so it was a bit more interesting but oh well I'll try and do a better job for the next one.

Anyways I hope this makes sense. XD