Rouge: An abstract journey of what we give blood for
Overview:
This sounds like a very heavy subject, but I am not interested in making a political statement. Blood is the means that takes the audience on a journey from point A to point B. It is vehicle that remains constant while its surroundings and settings change around it.
I was really inspired by a music video called 'La Terre Ferme' by Luke.
In this video, the main 2-D figure is falling through an endless and boundless space. The idea for my animation holds the same kind of aesthetics as well as theme. I plan on using a combination of photos and 3-D animation in order to achieve a 2 1/2-D look but with very fluid movements.
A major focus of this project is the smooth and precise flow of the camera's motion. The music video below called 'Only You' by Portishead and I was inspired by the beautiful movements and transistions from slow motion to sped up and reverse to normal playback.
- A man holding a gun to another mans head fires the gun. Blood sprays and the camera tracks a drop of blood falling down a open stairwell. As it falls, the stairs slowing transform into DNA strands. The camera pans out to a scientist looking at the blood sample on a petri dish.
- There are tons of flashing lights and, in slow motion, a boxers face appears. He is getting hit and blood and sweat are spraying with his heads movement. The camera follows a drop of blood which falls up to a nose bleeding. There is a quick reverse shot of the blood going back into someones nose and then the woman doing a line of coke, also in reverse.
Timeline:
04.14 - Complete story and storyboards
05.26 - Complete animation and test stereo
