1. In this clip, Mickey steps through a mirror as if it's made of saran-wrap. Of course that's impossible, since mirrors are made of glass and metal. However, the animator uses the motion of Mickey pushing combined with the effects on the mirror looking as though he broke through it to create a convincing visual illusion. The illusion is convincing because it takes another commonly seen phenomena, in this example, saran wrap, and applies it to something with a completely different composition but a similar look, which makes it "plausible".
2. In this clip, the goose eats a lot of corn very fast (a reoccurring conflict in the story, let me tell you). This wouldn't be possible in real life, obviously, so if they had used a early 2000's direct-to-dvd trick and made something that seems possible but sped it up, it would look wrong. Instead, in this clip, he eats the corn with a motion similar to how a typewriter used to be operated, by eating a line, then pushing the cob all the way back, eating another line, etc. This creates plausibility in the same way example 1 does- by using a motion that you can't immediately place to create a more immersive animation.
3. In this excerpt from "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves", all of the dwarves besides Dopey are washing Grumpy. This one's not the best example of the "Plausible Impossible", but it does employ heavy squash-and-stretch to maintain immersion.
4. Here's another one from the animation with the goose. In this scene, he shuffles meat and bread like playing cards then stuffs all of it into his mouth at once. The motion of playing cards combined with the visual of lunchmeat and bread make the animation feel better than if he just made the sandwiches one by one and ate them.
5. Finally, another clip from the mirror. In this one, Mickey's marching around with some card soldiers. He tells them to shuffle, and they do; he shuffles with them, despite not being flat. By applying the same movement the cards use to Mickey, a convincing motion is created for an impossible situation.
I learned about marks, symbols, and other such . A symbol is a graphic without surrounding typography while a logo is both the graphic and the typography surrounding it. I learned three (3) things from this: 1. Visual weight for symbols should be heavy. At the right weight, logos are easier to discern and recognize. Look at the North Face logo; fat text on a fat graphic makes things easier to read. 2. Symbols should be monochrome. This makes them more versatile and allows for broader application. 3. Marks should "flow" so that the eye follows through the logo without disruptions or noise. My favorite thing that I learned was about the visual weights; it really helped confirm something I was already vaguely aware of. In conclusion, this worksheet was useful and I gained valuable knowledge, but it's not something to make a blog out of. A blog's a useful personal networking tool; using it to review a worksheet is a waste and really messes with the consistency of the blog. I decided to write this blog because my teacher assigned this :). I'm not in eCommunications to build a portfolio or play dressup as a """""budding creative"""""; I'm here to learn useful skills.
In my graphic design class, we were tasked to create 5" x 5" typography squares. I made these. Aside from the SMPTE test screen, they were made in Adobe Illustrator on grayscale before being colorized. While we were supposed to use sketches, I ended up changing up all of the quotes besides the fourth one shown, (which I still drastically switched up the layout of) so it wouldn't really be productive to post the sketches. Quotes two and four were originally done in a different color scheme (two in orange and blue and four in garbage).
INFOWARS JOKE HERE I made this one around the SMPTE color test, so it really doesn't have a good monochrome. The quote was BM'd up in ten seconds because it looked good and it sounded good.
DOCTOR SUESS QUOTE This one's a quote from Theodore Guisel, better known as Doctor Seuss, who stole the second part from the guy who made the speech where the term "Cold War" was originally coined. I chose it because I was low on time and I didn't want to use some weird, obscure, out-of-left-field quote. I used purple and yellow because they seemed like good quirky contrasting colors.
PSYCHADELIC ALBUM COVER RIPOFF Warping the text into the circle was a real pain in the butt, but I'm proud of the final product. I used muted orange and blue color scheme with a closed border. (Politics related jokes would go here if I were allowed an opinion as a blog.) The quote's made up, but I'll bet you ten pennies similar sentiments have been expressed before.
PAT THE BUNNY QUOTE Now here's the real thorn in my side. I was kinda aimless originally but the second draft, this one, really worked pretty well. The picture in the background was an image of Beatniks, which the quote definitely reminds me of.
The original version of this one kinda sucks. I was really trying to do that "stop sign" kinda thing and it didn't work. I like all the parts individually, but all together they're cluttered and hard to follow. The quote is from the song "From Here to Utopia (Song for the Desperate)" by the band Ramshackle Glory. Pat "The Bunny" Schneeweis is the lead singer of the band, hence why the quote is attributed to him. This is a wholesome blog for young, impressionable children, so I won't embed the video, but here's a link. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sl_gyMftEqg in case you were wondering, blogger's formatting blows
