Friday, April 27, 2007
Final Project
My final project is done and was quite contraversal. Most agreed wanting equality, but the means to get there was the debate. Some believe in programs that elevate specific groups, but these same people refuse to see how these programs keep others from succeeding. My goal was to show how people are ingrained with many different identities, but most were stuck on one observation of a small group among a larger group. This is the most valuable thing about this project, I learned that people are not as interested in the merit of what they believe, as they are in holding on to that belief. This project has always been about Identity, however, I was illustrating how identities are forced on us and we should question those. What I learned was that questioning your identity makes people extrememly scared. I think the thought of having to decide what is right and wrong, rather than having it told to them is uncomprehendable to most. If they question their beliefs and discover those beliefs are wrong, then they will no longer fit into a popular comfy group. This could mean losing friends and re-assessing their own values, and this scares the shit out of people, and that is what I learned during classroom discussion of this piece. This complacent attitude is what made genocides and opression possible. If a person can sway enough of a group then the rest will fall into line, as to avoid being different and disliked. Heavy lesson to learn from creating an animation, but there it is. Powerful groups in our society exert economical and social forces on us before we are even born, and if at all, most stumble upon it to late in life, or are tho freightened of the consequences of their discover. Those who "Rock the Boat" by pointing these out, only spotlight the illusions that many have built their life and identiy apon. It is fascinating that people can live their lives in illusion. This is what this piece is trying to convey.
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Blue Man Machine-Final Project Proposal
Final Rounder Scene
The animation begins with the mechanical bird swooping down and gulping up the blue rounder. There will be two shots of this, the first, from the point of view of the bird, and the second, a landscape shot so that the swoop of the bird and the swallowing are visible. The blue rounder is swallowed and falls into the belly of the bird. The belly of the bird is unexpectedly large, about the size of a small bedroom. Inside the belly is an old blue man standing behind an oddly shaped gun that is pointed at the blue rounder. The old blue guy fires the gun at the blue rounder and to both their surprise, nothing happened to the blue rounder. Since the gun has no effect on the blue rounder, it means that the blue rounder is not like the others. The old blue guy, turns the duty of zapping people with his gun to the new blue rounder.. and gives him instructions on how to reactivate the gun using the old blue guys eyes and head. Dismantling the top of the gun, the old blue guy shoves cables from the ray gun into his own eyes and hangs himself to decapitate his head. The blue rounder places the old guys head into the canopic jar of the ray gun and recharges it. The gun reveals what is inside the person it shoots. The gun has two settings,
1. Pauperize – it strips the subject from all there money
2. De-Colorize- it drains the color out of the subject.
The user can set the dial to either pauperize or De-Colorize, and the bird goes and gulps up the respective person and swallows him/her and the user pulls the trigger on the gun.
When the pauperize zaps a green rounder, the rounder dissolves and monetary objects, (cars, money, houses, electronics, jewelry, and other valuables), smoke out of the corpse.
When the De-Colorize zaps a red rounder, the rounder dissolves and images and sounds of modern day racist subject matter, (BET, black scholarship, NAACP, miss black America, black colleges, and other references to racist images) will dissolve to the ceiling and float around.
Eric Breedlove
The animation begins with the mechanical bird swooping down and gulping up the blue rounder. There will be two shots of this, the first, from the point of view of the bird, and the second, a landscape shot so that the swoop of the bird and the swallowing are visible. The blue rounder is swallowed and falls into the belly of the bird. The belly of the bird is unexpectedly large, about the size of a small bedroom. Inside the belly is an old blue man standing behind an oddly shaped gun that is pointed at the blue rounder. The old blue guy fires the gun at the blue rounder and to both their surprise, nothing happened to the blue rounder. Since the gun has no effect on the blue rounder, it means that the blue rounder is not like the others. The old blue guy, turns the duty of zapping people with his gun to the new blue rounder.. and gives him instructions on how to reactivate the gun using the old blue guys eyes and head. Dismantling the top of the gun, the old blue guy shoves cables from the ray gun into his own eyes and hangs himself to decapitate his head. The blue rounder places the old guys head into the canopic jar of the ray gun and recharges it. The gun reveals what is inside the person it shoots. The gun has two settings,
1. Pauperize – it strips the subject from all there money
2. De-Colorize- it drains the color out of the subject.
The user can set the dial to either pauperize or De-Colorize, and the bird goes and gulps up the respective person and swallows him/her and the user pulls the trigger on the gun.
When the pauperize zaps a green rounder, the rounder dissolves and monetary objects, (cars, money, houses, electronics, jewelry, and other valuables), smoke out of the corpse.
When the De-Colorize zaps a red rounder, the rounder dissolves and images and sounds of modern day racist subject matter, (BET, black scholarship, NAACP, miss black America, black colleges, and other references to racist images) will dissolve to the ceiling and float around.
Eric Breedlove
Blue Man Machine
Final Rounder Scene
The animation begins with the mechanical bird swooping down and gulping up the blue rounder. There will be two shots of this, the first from the point of view of the bird, and the second a landscape shot so that the swoop of the bird and the swallowing are visible. The blue rounder is swallowed and falls into the belly of the bird. The belly of the bird is unexpectedly large, about the size of a small bedroom. Inside the belly is an old blue man standing behind an oddly shaped gun that the old blue guy is pointing at the blue rounder. The old blue guy fires the gun at the blue rounder and to both of their surprise, nothing happened to the blue rounder. Since the gun has no effect on the blue rounder, it means that the blue rounder is not like the others. The old blue guy, turns the duty of zapping people with his gun to the new blue rounder.. and gives him instructions on how to reactivate the gun using the old blue guys eyes and head. Dismantling the top of the gun, the old blue guy shoves cables from the ray gun into his own eyes and hangs himself to decapitate his head. The blue rounder places the old guys head into the canopic jar of the ray gun and recharges it. The gun reveals what is inside the person it shoots. The gun has two settings,
1. Pauperize – it strips the subject from all there money
2. De-Colorize- it drains the color out of the subject.
The user can set the dial to either pauperize or De-Colorize, and the bird goes and gulps up the respective person and swallows him/her and the user pulls the trigger on the gun.
When the pauperize zaps a green rounder, the rounder dissolves and monetary objects, (cars, money, houses, electronics, jewelry, and other valuables), smoke out of the corpse.
When the De-Colorize zaps a red rounder, the rounder dissolves and images and sounds of modern day racist subject matter, (BET, black scholarship, NAACP, miss black America, black colleges, and other references to racist images) will dissolve to the ceiling and float around.
Eric Breedlove
The animation begins with the mechanical bird swooping down and gulping up the blue rounder. There will be two shots of this, the first from the point of view of the bird, and the second a landscape shot so that the swoop of the bird and the swallowing are visible. The blue rounder is swallowed and falls into the belly of the bird. The belly of the bird is unexpectedly large, about the size of a small bedroom. Inside the belly is an old blue man standing behind an oddly shaped gun that the old blue guy is pointing at the blue rounder. The old blue guy fires the gun at the blue rounder and to both of their surprise, nothing happened to the blue rounder. Since the gun has no effect on the blue rounder, it means that the blue rounder is not like the others. The old blue guy, turns the duty of zapping people with his gun to the new blue rounder.. and gives him instructions on how to reactivate the gun using the old blue guys eyes and head. Dismantling the top of the gun, the old blue guy shoves cables from the ray gun into his own eyes and hangs himself to decapitate his head. The blue rounder places the old guys head into the canopic jar of the ray gun and recharges it. The gun reveals what is inside the person it shoots. The gun has two settings,
1. Pauperize – it strips the subject from all there money
2. De-Colorize- it drains the color out of the subject.
The user can set the dial to either pauperize or De-Colorize, and the bird goes and gulps up the respective person and swallows him/her and the user pulls the trigger on the gun.
When the pauperize zaps a green rounder, the rounder dissolves and monetary objects, (cars, money, houses, electronics, jewelry, and other valuables), smoke out of the corpse.
When the De-Colorize zaps a red rounder, the rounder dissolves and images and sounds of modern day racist subject matter, (BET, black scholarship, NAACP, miss black America, black colleges, and other references to racist images) will dissolve to the ceiling and float around.
Eric Breedlove
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
March 27, 2007
Downloaded some sound bites, having problems with the school computer playing real time clips.
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
20Mar2007 What I learned
The most successful thing about this piece is that I finally figured out how to take my drawings from sketchbook to Flash, without to much lag. In the past, with Flash, this has been a problem for me. I am noticing that I am developing a tendency to clump alot of images together, I use to fight it, but I am thinking it is a evolution of my style, so I am not fighting it or paring down the amount of images in the work anymore. There is alot of meaning behind this, but again I ran short of time, so I had to cut down the narrative. The pieces are symbolic, and though I like them to be vague or elusive, I feel I did not give the viewer enough to piece them together due to running out of time. It is fine to make things with out any point or message, I really the message to be the main theme, and really that is what I am good at, is layering messages and symbolism, not really animation or aesthetic.
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