Pre production: bit more research

Have been looking into Boccioni a bit more. He's a useful point of reference because he used to paint portraits of people, and that's the bit i've been struggling with. I've got a bit of an idea together now though, will update this post in a bit with some drawings.

I really like this one of his. Although - not for this project. I wont be using this style. What's interesting with this is this is how he would paint before he really got into Futurism. It's a pretty intense style, I love how he has different strokes of colours to make up a shade or tone. Really really nice.

And here he is at the other end of the scale. This is him deep in futurism.

I like this for how deep the background is, and how the person is intergrated into it. It's kinda like they 'fit' within the symmetry of the world. In my opinion that's kind of what he was trying to show with his futurist portraits, the symmetry and relation of humans within the world

UPDATE:

So anywho here's a few I did meself. Note - there just sketches so ignore the crapness.

I've found it really helpful doing a few of these. Basically i've been sketching out pencil-imitations of some of the futurist artists work. I find it helps you to look more closely at it. The last one I especially like. It's a portrait by Boccioni, which I tried turning around a little. To be honest, I actually prefer my sketch of it to his original, I think it's got quite a nice line style to it. I'm thinking this sums up the look  of my characters:

They'll be very futurist when they're in motion, but as they come to a pause, they become more drawn and accurate - like the painters have time to catch up with them. I'm thinking this because one of the characters, the narrator, will be very quick, animated, fast paced (futurist essentially). He'll look very animated & articulated in this style. Wheras the other character, the fishmonger, will be much slower moving, and only when he has that brief influx of strength in rowing his gondola or catching fish will he begin to look more 'futurist'.

So the drawn style will have another ideal behind it, its there to relate the motives of the characters. Capiche?

Here's a few other sketches. The first is a sketch of what the narrator will look like. Although, I want his dress sense to be a little less comical. The second one is just a few sketches inspired by Marinetti's original manifesto, and the final one is a sketch of a futurist city-scape, inspired by Metropolis (the film).

And here's a train, inspired by the quote to the left.

Right that'll do for now. Work night ahead!

Todays research...

...until the football kicks off.

I'm just listening to this recording of someone reading Marinetti's manifesto out at a poetry reading, and putting my own music to it. Some of it really goes well, give it a go yourself...

This is the manifesto:


And check out these songs with it, picked randomly (but with great effervescence) from my iTunes:

(Obviously make sure you turn the music down so the speech is at an audible level)













Then, while listening, i'm drawing what I see. It's interesting the different slants the music gives the words, some uplifting, some rebellious, forthright, some pro-active, some a downer.

Will post me drawings later.

Swing Heil sketches

Last post of the night. For Kat & Gaz's Swing Heil project. Just a few sketches to get into the swing of things...

UPDATE 

Did a few head sketches in the style we were doing with Kathy in class the other day. Idea being either Kat or Gaz can go through and tick the ones they like (and cross the ones they deteste!)

(For Sian)

Here is Jim Morrison who I was telling you about. A good reference for your Satiyr character maybe.








Hope this helps.

Kathy will hate this...

Digital painters who use the stylistics of the medium as there forte!... par example.. =

Stanley Donwood's Radiohead album covers. You can very clearly see the photoshop strokes and tell the images have been spliced together digitally.

&

This guy (who did backgrounds for the excellent Beatles Rockband intro movie):

Love this one. Reminds me very much of Cornwall (to the left side atleast)

LINK TO HIS BLOG

If anyone has any other examples please post them below

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PS - had a go at digital colouring the other day. Bit of a 'meh' result. This was in Corel, first time ive used it.

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It's a wrap!

The animated Exeter introduction is all finito. Hurrah!



Enjoy, hope to see you there.

PS - Enter the one minute pitch.
http://animatedexeter.co.uk/calendar/38/careers-day-one-minute-pitch

panorama & life drawings

Check out this picture I took. This was in Australia, on Fraser Island. Tis basically a big island where you go off in a 4x4 for three days and camp/live with aboriginis. This was from the top of a rock where you can whale watch, didnt see any though unfortunatley.

Click to make it bigger

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life drawings from last night:

I call this one - "Man asleep infront of telly, naked"

"Man takes a break from watching telly for a moment of thought, naked."

This was one of the 30 second ones. I really like it, reminds me a bit of this book i've got of michelangelo's quick sketches.

That's all for now. We should be wrapping up our animated exeter work today, hurrah!

PS - Everyone should enter this. Sussanah told us about it yesterday, the Animated Exeter one minute pitch. You sit in the audience while a panel of pro's sit and watch one minute of your work, then give you feedback on it.

http://animatedexeter.co.uk/calendar/38/careers-day-one-minute-pitch

Pre production inspiration

Here's a few images I really like & have inspired my pre production planning:

These are by Umberto Boccioni. He was one of the pioneering artists in futurism. The final image called 'The street enters the house' is a really nice image. There's alot going on within it, but it does capture a certain Italian feeling of the life of the street. Each house is a part of the street & the street is a part of each house. Also the portrait of the man offers insight into there feeling of drawing humans... humans are just as important in the picture as every other element, and every other element is as important as the humans. Also, that humans move, faces are constantly moving - that's why the face is all skewed and irregular. There trying to capture the essence of the person rather than the 'falseness' of someone sitting for there picture to be drawn. Which is false, as it captures only the person sitting - like a corpse. It doesnt cover them from every angle I suppose.

These above are all works by the artist Balla. The nuns one is quite drastically different to the other too, but it contains simillar drawing styles in the aesthetics with the continuing line style & vivid colours. The dynamism of a dog on a leash is one of my faves (ta Alice) and you could even say it's almost a scientific study.

Russolo had quite a distinctive style, with the arrows pointing the way forward.

These are by the artist Depero. They offer a good graphic style for the design of the pages of my bible, plus the projects title will probably be done in this style.

These are Gerardo Dettori. I believe he was part of the second wave of futurism. The first image is of Venice, so offers good inspiration, although I think i'll go for a less 'illustrated' style when I draw the city. I actually saw the second one of Jesus on the cross in the Vatican. Again, shared theme here being vivid colours & continuing lines.

And finally my favorite of the futurist artists. This is the work of Tullio Crali. He worked in a branch of futurism called 'Aeropittura' that specifically drew aeroplanes. This was part of the second wave of futurism. I think the futurist style really pays off when you see the earths representation from the sky, like in the first one.