Sunday, 1 November 2009

Photographers Rights

People and Privacy
UK laws are fairly vague when it comes to defining what constitutes an invasion of privacy, but while street shots should cause no problem, you might get in hot water if you're strapping on colossal telephoto lens and zooming in on folks stripping off in their bathrooms - even if you are snapping from a public place.
The key seems to be whether the subject would have a reasonable expectation of privacy - a statement that seems vague enough to keep a team of lawyers gainfully employed for some time.
With some countries having stronger privacy laws, UK snappers looking to commercially exploit images of recognisable people snapped without their consent may find international clients unenthusiastic unless a model release has been obtained.
There's also a remote chance that photographs of people in public places may be subject to the Data Protection Act, but that's pretty unlikely if there's no other identifying information accompanying the image.

Tuesday, 13 October 2009

Animation

Book Animations


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNX43grZSZs&feature=PlayList&p=BC5A8D7E56A489FB&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=4

I like the idea of using an actual book and having it like a larger scale flip book, although if i were to do something similar to this I would probaly have to start off with a simpler design as the flow of the animation is very smooth there arent any scattered or jumpy parts that can be seen.
Although I really like this animation I don't really see a meaning behind the animation unless it was trying to portray the violence in everything.

'Magic Moving Images'


Magic Moving Images - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5W5JJXtqhw

I love the idea it reminds me of when I was younger when I had an optical illusion book and I was fasinated with the idea of such things. I tried to create one of these but I couldnt get the dimensions of the plastic sheet with the straight lines so it didn't work properly.
But I like the idea of using something in my animation which turns out to be more than it appears.

Animatic


Birds of a feather- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0b1deL7nA4&feature=related



Pandora's book - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp4h6gSmxRg&feature=related



Animatic 'number three' - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DU_BT-41_NY&feature=related

I must say first of all I love this style of drawing I think its very quirky and cute, the animatics are quite detailed in the pictures to get a clear sense and direction for the scene to conclude whether it will work well and fit in with the next frame.
I have watched the final animations for all three of these and could tel straight away that these were the animatics as the movements shown in arrows and the facial details.

Monday, 12 October 2009

Artist Research





Artist: Woody (For Topshop)

I love the style of the illustration I like the large eyes and the simple but imaginative details like with these two examples with the stars and the kite which draws your attention.
I like the idea of using this style of drawing in my animation as I feel it looks quite surreal but quirky at the same time which I like the idea of having that style in my animation.
I first saw the illustrators work about a year ago when browsing the internet and it was a new clothing design it was only a few weeks that I realised that it was an actual designer Zara Wood.

Sunday, 11 October 2009

Harvie Krumpet



Harvie Krumpet is a short animation about the life of Harvie Krumpet. The characters used in this animation were created using clay, which I think gives a really nice effect, I especially like how clear the emotions are very clear which really brings across the feelings which are being displayed. I also like the transitions through out his life, it doesn't drag on in parts that aren't nessecery.
However I think that the sound effect and background music should have been more apparent throughout the film as music can build up scenes and I felt it didnt build up the emotions/scene as much as it could have if more audio was included.

Thursday, 1 October 2009

Unit 39 - Research

https://www.redvelvetart.com/


I really like this design! I love the bright colours used as well as the small doodle like drawings for the buttons - I may use something like this in my own design. I also like the text which looks like it could be her actual writing I also like this idea perhaps I could use this in my design also.

I also like the extra details over the images when hovered over them like the small lines and squiggles, it makes exploring the website much more interesting!

However one fault for this website is that the images took a while to load but the images that loaded up were bright and attractive so it wasn't uninteresting so it improved it by it being bright and interesting to look at.