Movie Season: Robots = <3

So i've decided to look at Robot's for my movie season. I've always had an interest in robotics whether they be nuts and bolts or made of more electrical substances.

A list of my favourite robots:

• Warlock (New Mutants) :

Who, unfortunately, he isn't in a movie yet. Though the next five years looks promising. But knowing my luck, they'll mess up the franchise one again.

• Marvin The Paranoid Android (The Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy):

I love both versions from the new film to the old series. (As well as the book.) He's not so much paranoid as depressed.

• Roy Batty (Blade Runner):

Who doesn't like murderous blonde robots with the mental age of a toddler?

• Officer Alex J Murphy (Robocop):

I was obsessed with these films when I was little, I think that's what started my fondness for robots.

Movie Season Ideas

I've had several Idea's for the Christmas brief, mostly revolving around the 5 ten second idents rather than the 50 second clip. I think overall this will be easier for me.

Ideas:

• Stop Motion such as 'Dougal and the blue cat' from 1970 - to Coraline from last year.
• Straight to DVD films that where actually good. (Which as of this moment, off the top of my head I can't think of any)
• Horror Movies...Hmmm blood and gore.
• Robots/cybernetics/artificial intelligence
• Books to Film. There are tones of really decent and really bad adaptation of films.

Story Boards: Bio Shock Style

So I've been looking into different types of story boards for this module. The great thing about story boards is that they have a really strong link with comic books. These are some from upcoming bio shock 2K games. ...It's already been pre ordered and I can't wait to get the Deco Devolution Art Book for it.

Story Boards~

Gorillaz El Manana:



Hello Kitty:


I think I prefer the story boards to the actual 3d rendered animation. There's just something about that style of animation that I find a little "tacky". If you're going to 3d animate, make sure it looks right. But then again, it's Hello Kitty.

Kinetic Type

Some of my favourite Kinetic Typography animations from across the internet.



(The Dexter Tribute we used for the group work just before christmas: Am I Good, Am I Evil? )





You can see with the progression with this one. As stated, the student spent a long time on the animation, learning the program as they went much like we're doing. Unfortunately I don't think I have enough patience to spend this long on After Effects.



I like the textured feel of this one and the way the camera isn't stationary or controlled.