Name Animation
Be yourself.
The GoaL: REPRESENT YOURSELF IN AN ANIMATION.
The Details
Create a 10-15 second square animation that explores your personality and shows your name. The animation should have typical story structure of introduction, rising action, and denouement.
Project time: 5 weeks
The Process
RESEARCH
Concept
A few descriptive words to describe myself were chosen in an effort to focus in on a possible theme for the animated piece.
NEUTRAL
HYPERFOCUSED
SATIRIC
ERRATIC
RETROSPECTIVE
A concept direction was decided upon based on these descriptors:
My concept visualizes my tunnel vision of design on typography and letterforms, while acknowledging my unmodern (dated) design preferences, fragile thought process, and showing my struggles with focus, humor, and design.
And a visual design strategy was chosen as well:
The goal of the combined elements is to show contrast: retrofurist elements versus aged elements, tunnel vision versus a fragile focus, concentration versus distraction; to accentuate contrasting design preferences, and to blur viewer focus between points of interest, narrating my unfocused inner dialogue.
Gathering Inspiration
Inspiration was gathered from aesthetics I personally connected to, based on the aesthetic and design goals I had in mind.
More specific inspirations were found specifically to reference palette, type, composition, and style.
