FMP|Test_screens

My initial idea of how these paths could look against photography or a moving image. I'll be adding brief descriptions to each of the arrows. I think the more paths there are, the more intense and detailed the image will look. Can't wait to aminate footage... once I start filming!

A rough test of how the animation could pan out. Need to get angles and rotations spot on throughout though.

FMP|Initial_proposal

Reform|final_poster/animation...

Maybe a few tweaks, here and there...

Reform|sneak_preview

A sneaky preview as to where I'm up to with my animation and poster for this brief. Don't want to give too much away at the moment as designs may change in these last few days, although the snippet of the poster on the right wouldn't look too bad as a banner...

Reform|fragile_nucleus

Reform|the_science_behind_After_Effects

I've started to animate projectile lilies, which head towards a circle - the circle being the casing of the conker. Taking this almost violent movement towards the conker, I thought about what would happen after impact. Then thinking about impact, I thought about what reactions, forces and explosions would be involved once the lilies join with the conker.

Going down this path of impacts and reactions, I started to treat the conker as an atom, rather than a conker. Using inspiration from the 'origami cranes' legend (Fold 1000 origami cranes and your hearts desires will come true - Hiroshima survivor folds 1000 cranes in the hope to heal her radiation poisoning, notices everyone around her is dying, so instead wishes for world peace) I had a look at Imi's images of conkers, and noticed how when bundled together, they formed the basis of an atomic nucleus.

I now plan to pair this idea with noises around the theme of 'war'. Watch this space...

Reform|horse_chestnut/折り紙

Spent some time sticking cutouts of my lily to a printout of Imi's conker. Below is the end result. Not bad if you look at it from a distance. Was a bit of a pain to get the perspective right as I didn't have enough photos so, I had to duplicate, flip and rotate half of them. Looked a bit too bland so I thought I'd have a play around in Photoshop to give it some depth.

THEN, I thought I'd run it through a scanner at the lowest quality setting then have a play with it in InDesign. I'm happy with the results...