Tuesday, February 13, 2007

1b_progress


3 comments:

cgove said...

its even better when played with kiwi's music!

jimena amaral said...

Nice!!!!! Good job with the way it is framed! did u use form z to animate it?
the lines from form z that show the lights is very nice, it creates a nice composition when overlapped with the neutral colors of the object and the background.
PS: the kiwi video is the cutest thing ever!!!!!

bdickson said...

I've been thinking about the use of flashing and overlaying wireframes onto the rendered animations, and while not having yet come to any definitive conclusions (if any exist), I think there are moments in your animation when it is very successful, and some when it is less so.

The camera's and paths provide an interesting view of where you're going / where you've been (its sort of like a roller coaster, when you get to fly by the tracks you haven't yet ridden on). The wireframe also accentuates the surfaces, which, due to their curviness and transparency, can at time can become ambiguous (which, again, can be good and bad).

On the other had, sometimes it seems like an arbirtrary "flashy" addition to an otherwise elegant animation. When it isn't needed or it is used too often, it can become a distraction.

I guess the moral to the story is to emply the wireframe rigorously in our animations, using it only where it reinforces our intent / makes the image even sexier (which is no different than the way we should approach any form of representation).