Unit 5 - Furtive Cycle

Unit 5 - Revised Bouncing Ball

Unit 5 - Music Choice for Animation

These are the two music that may suit well with my animation. If you got some other suggestions on music, feel free to ask.

Unit 5 - Furtive Blimp Storyboard Animatic

Unit 5 - Storyline Revised

Beginning
-The scene starts by seeing the full view of the city with searchlights before zooming in to where the Blimp is.

Middle
-The blimp is trying to escape the city.
-The blimp hides in several buildings in London.
-The blimp peeks out from behind a building, making sure it's clear before heading up and hiding behind a cloud.
-The blimp goes from cloud to cloud, still avoiding the searchlights.
-The blimp manages to get out of the city and into the open.


End
-A head shot of the blimp as it sighs in relief.
-A shot of the bird as it lands on the blimp.
-The shot shows the bird about to peck it before the whole scene turns black.
-You hear the Blimp burst before hearing the Bird laugh.

Unit 5 - Furtive Blimp Biography Revised

Name: Furtive Blimp
Occupation: An enemy blimp, spying around in London.
Age: 2 weeks
Description: During the Second World War, the Blimp was made by the Germans to spy around in London for information. As the Blimp found out the information it needed, all he needs to do is escape and head back to Germany. But, with all these searchlights around, he has no choice but to be furtive and try not to get spotted.

Unit 5 - Timeline - Ladislaw Starewicz (1882 - 1965)

Ladislaw Starewicz started animating in 1910 and continued until his death in 1965. He was born in Russia but moved to France over the 50 year period. Starewicz maintained a fasination with the strange, almost surreal properties, and exploring the realistic motion and movement in animations. His animation films he creates are mostly joyful but cruel with movement of the characters that are very close to annihilation.




The Mascot, also known as The Devil's Ball or Puppy Love, was created using toys and demonic vegetables. The film was aiming for children in the 1900's but if shown today, it would be thought of as strange and the situation the characters are in. This animated film betrays Starewicz inspiration from his longer work by using live-action techniques using a projection and the attention to details.

This animation I found adorable when the film focuses mostly on the dog character who is trying to get an orange for his owner. The situation starts to happen when the dog wants to go back home with the orange to give to his owner but is trying to get stopped by the other toys and the demonic vegetables. The characters are quite realistic when brought to life by the use of stop-motion animation but can be quite creepy which is why it's not recommended to kids now.


Danks, Adrian. (2004). http://www.sensesofcinema.com/2004/cteq/starewicz_mascot/ (Accessed on 29th March 2011)

Animation World Netwrok. (1999). http://www.awn.com/heaven_and_hell/STARE/stare1.htm (Accessed on 29th March 2011)

Wikipedia. (1910). https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOjgx4SXVOvKBd5dKpE9ymZAWo-Cphsf-C2zkxEw8jxI7cNhwhurJJlfNJVwjgrKdpwqDvO1zn6rlpgVogwKj2EcAWVCSoe604-tBBOJ9huwTP44JkcljkDQdlEgd8PRiiURNS8j_OxO_4/s1600/Picture+25.png (Accessed on 29th March 2011)

Animation World Netwrok. (1999). http://www.awn.com/heaven_and_hell/STARE/stare1.htm (Accessed on 29th March 2011)