Reference

Sepultura – Ratamahtta

I like the textures and materiality throughout the animation and the jungle scenes could be useful reference for the ‘Walking’ scene, ‘Felix Panic’ scene and maybe the ‘Cabin’ scene.

Alaska Stop – motion

Sorry Hayley it wasn’t me, not sure who posted this animation. To be honest I’m not too keen on the way its shot in real environments; it really highlights its faults. From this I think we need to make sure the dirt/soil/ground is mostly, if not all, stuck down. So as to prevent it moving unintentionally.

Moooooomins!

I really like the semi 2d aesthetic and it could work well to mix in propped up cut out pictures with the model trees and other backgrounds. This could help give the shots more depth and maybe even to force perspective at points.

Armatures

http://www.squidoo.com/armatures

As we will be making our armatures now, here’s one site I found on building armatures, although there not for animation, I thought we could pick up some pointers on the structure and adapt it to what we need.



Here's some reference I’ve been looking at for some of the scenes (I think we’ve talked about most of these):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEZK7mJoPLY
The opening titles of Se7en, although a lot more creepy than we’re going for, uses a lot of interesting shots that could be adapted for our opening scene.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eq4GxS8Rzg8
I love the use of light and shadow in Caroline Leaf’s ‘Two Sisters’ and the way in which there’s a green tint to the lines reminded me of the colour palette we were talking about. And again the shots used at the start and the way they are obscured, slowly revealing the environment reminded me of our opening scene.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9p5IVPr784&feature=related
James mentioned this one and also the opening of the first Jurassic park would be good reference for the kidnap scene

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz3KQgqJgPE
Reference for ‘Felix panic’ scene

http://www.vimeo.com/1309452
This video for the fleet foxes is awesome, if you haven’t seen it already, and it just so happens to be stop – mo and include water and many other woodland reference. Also the character design, I didn’t think plastercine would work for our characters but watching this again I’m not so sure, what does everyone think?

http://www.vimeo.com/5484969
Oh and there’s a making of video as well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1AQsuO_zqE
I really liked the composition of the woods in this.

Well that’s about it for now, I will be uploading some photos of our work we’ve done in uni, at some point (sorry James) most likely tomorrow. Let me know what you think of some of the references, if we haven’t already talked about them already.


~Dave