Tuesday 5 May 2009

STUNT HERO

Stunt Hero -


Stunt hero is the opener for a stuntman casting show series on Swiss national TV SF. designed and animated by LE MOB.

i came across this piece while researching into projects that have used the time freeze technique on way or another for my final major project.

I like the style of the over all animation. The camera movement and jump cut between the scenes are very typical of action films though is was presented in a more graphical way.

The scenes where the subject freezes in time and immediately changes in visual style to become grungier worked well with the sound, pace and the follow on scene as soon as the freeze continues in real time.

the style of the animation is reminds me of Ronin’s Black day to Freedom piece.


BLACK DAY TO FREEDOM




Since having done stuff on the green screen recently, I have become more interested in animations that involve a lot of compositing. It makes me appreciate the amount of effort, skill and attention to details given to a project at a storyboard level.




The details given to the project at the storyboard level cannot be compromised as shooting on green screen before compositing the final elements will require the shots of every character been worked out carefully. The position of the subject and the camera angle and more as how the scene will lead to the next characters angle. These were some of the subject that was discussed on our visit to Double Negative. As mentioned there some mistakes made at the shooting stage cannot be corrected e.g. issues like camera angle on the subject etc.




A lot of the footage from the animation was shott on green screen then later compositied in after effect. A lot of mask revel technique has been applied and used a lot within this animation and it works out well as transitions between scenes.


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