Light Night Animation

I'd like to start by saying that i was very glad i was given the opportunity to have some work put up at light night, however the amount of stress that i put myself through in order to make something ready for Light Night was completely unnecessary.

The deadline was set for October 3rd, and then after this we had until the 6th to add additional animations. And I was also sure it was mentioned that we would get our names in the program. Because of the work i was putting in for the music video and beginning my dissertation reading i ended up completely forgetting about this deadline and so ended up not creating anything new, however i felt the end of one of my previous animations fit the project theme, so i cut a shot i liked the best down to a second and submitted that.

This was quite a sneaky manoeuvre, but it got my foot in the door and gave me some extra time to produce some other animations. I then learnt that this sneaky manoeuvre was useless as the deadline had been extended, i assumed this was because our names weren't going to be credited in the printed program but would appear online. 

Regardless i continued, i decided to use some of the assets and footage i had collected for the PNEUMA music video, some of the shots of the gig looks nice a space-y with bokeh and a blue colour scheme, so i recoloured the characters and had them dancing because i thought this would fit in with the music being played at the event. This meant i could make the animation quickly, and looked nice. 

Finally i decided i wanted to make an animation that pushed me a little, i wanted to try something with a lot of perspective and a moving camera. I'm sort of happy with the result, i felt i rushed it a little at the end because by the time i finished it it was 3AM, and was ready to drop. I wished i had added some more frames so it was smoother, and i wish i had put more thought into the colour scheme and i wish i had coloured neater, however i managed to make something look relatively smooth and dynamic so i was happy. I also chose to leave the background black because i thought the animations were going to be projected (since it was light night) thought i was mistaken.

I was incredibly disappointed to find out that our names were infact NOT going to be anywhere at lightnight, in a program, or even online, only the name "Leeds College of Art". However, this was much less upsetting as the actual event space itself, the quick animations didn't fit with the "abstract" music and dancing, as they had a very slow tempo (if a tempo at all). Whatever was playing the animations was an incredibly sloppy program, with a nice jutter at the start and end of every animation, meaning half of the one second animations wasn't seen. Everything was a mess, and i was upset at myself for putting as much effort as i did into the project, when i could have put my efforts elsewhere.

I am however proud of the work i had produced, and can still at least brag about producing work for light night two years in a row, even if i wouldn't ever want to back up these claims with evidence.