Armature Testing - iStopMotion
Whilst applying the structure of my Armature, I was doing a few rough tests to see how flexible the wire was for movement. I found that it was able to stay up for the movements that weren't complicated, however, the movement that involved a lot of strength didn't keep the armature in place.
This caused me problems when I was attempting to complete the walk cycle, as I didn't put the milliput on the model for the feet, I struggled with actually making sure the foot positions were correct for the walk. If i were to do this again, I would make sure the feet were secure and strong enough to hold the model in place.
Furthermore, I was testing the speed of movement, I realised that my timing in general is an element within Animation that needs to be worked on. To rectify this, I will plan out future frames to make sure there is a sense of continuity within my work, although this was a test it would stand me in good practice to make sure timing is correct throughout all my Animations and tests.
Any environment or setting you develop has to be based upon those themes of Fairytales that are twisted.
Most twisted fairytales adopt a post-modernist style and concept which is usually found within Performance Arts, Film, TV, Theatre and Animation with the intent to make the audience distrust the theories and ideologies that are usually associated with the conventions of fairytales.
The most prominent theorists behind this work are Jean Leotard, Jacques Derrida, Jean Buadrillard and Karl Barth. Many post modernist narratives reject linear order and stable notions of chronology to abandon traditional concepts of historical development as a series of determinate causes and effects. Therefore, a running theme within these 'Twisted Fairytales' are to undermine cause and effect whilst attempting to integrate art and life.
Although there is mainly non-linear and fragmented illusions of continuity, there is also a dissolving of borders between fiction and non-fiction, between genres and high/low cultures.
By attempting to Animate a 'Twisted Fairytale' character OR even create an Animation based off one of these stories would include the presence of personal symbols and metaphors that are driven from the artists fragmented personal experiences. This then becomes a dramatisation of a world in which there are no depths and nothing under the surface. This allows the sense of life that is lived in a world with no transcendent meaning which leads to a nihilistic view.
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