Friday, December 12, 2008
Flying Ratman
This is just what I have animated so far. I have a looot more drawings separated into layers in photoshop. I've just been spending a long time on fine detail.
This is going to be a continuing effort. I really love flying rat man. I hope to get a finished product by November 2009. So that's the very very very tentative release date.
Monday, December 1, 2008
Sunday, November 16, 2008
New Treatment
Batman kills the joker. This violates his most important tenent of justice. Batman must not kill, he brings villains to justice. Now the jokers point comes into play. Now that chaos has prevailed even if the foe was vanquished materially, the Joker actually won and Batmans psyche is ruined, corrupted. He is now flying rat man, a scummy, farty, mutant beast that is all that is bad about batman. He invokes fear in the city. He still preys on villains, but now he eats them, and now there are innocent bystanders who get blown away. This is the world my animation takes place in, but the back story will not be explained.
Animation will be a combination of hand drawing, after effects motion, and cut out found footage. The found footage will be the victims and some backgrounds. I've found The Birds to have a lot of good people running away, and I might be able to turn the birds into bats, but I might not have to.
The animation is going to be a dark scary moody depiction of batman/flying rat man in his daily life. This is composed of him sitting munching chips in his moldy apartment. It is a dingy life replete with flashbacks of the horrors of each night before. He eats a gnarly pickle from the fridge and it reminds him of a woman's finger from the previous evening. He terrorizes the city. He has claws.
Animation will be a combination of hand drawing, after effects motion, and cut out found footage. The found footage will be the victims and some backgrounds. I've found The Birds to have a lot of good people running away, and I might be able to turn the birds into bats, but I might not have to.
The animation is going to be a dark scary moody depiction of batman/flying rat man in his daily life. This is composed of him sitting munching chips in his moldy apartment. It is a dingy life replete with flashbacks of the horrors of each night before. He eats a gnarly pickle from the fridge and it reminds him of a woman's finger from the previous evening. He terrorizes the city. He has claws.
Monday, November 3, 2008
Treatment
My general idea is to illustrate (animate) metaphorical observations I have about the world I live in. These metaphors will concern science, philosophy and the government and will flow into each other. I was inspired by this photoshop artwork by Chad Pugh: http://vimeo.com/927062. I like how different subjects and concepts are concisely illustrated without a specific educational/didactic purpose, but instead their juxtapositions evoke the pleasure of knowlede or observation.
I have a lot of very short episodes in mind for this, but can't decide on how each will fit together or what will be cut or included. The primary sequence/motif will be different metaphorical, perhaps caricatured observations about government, ours in particular. The government is this great stinking leviathan with millions of limbs yet it can barely move itself, it can only reach out it's tentacles and eat people. It also has many faces with myriad motives. The CIA is the surgeon, with tiny sharp scalpels sticking out on long robotic arms for instance.
Along with that interpretation of our government as a being, I'd like to show it over time. I have an idea in mind about various 20th century wars being the crests of waves, with smaller conflicts being ripples and wakes. I was thinking of teasing peoples messianic view of obama, even though i voted for him. (Obamanation).
The conclusion of this will move past critiques of the status quo and suggest a radically synergistic way of being. I'd like to incorporate hindu imagery because it would be very, very fun to animate. I imagine.
I have a lot of very short episodes in mind for this, but can't decide on how each will fit together or what will be cut or included. The primary sequence/motif will be different metaphorical, perhaps caricatured observations about government, ours in particular. The government is this great stinking leviathan with millions of limbs yet it can barely move itself, it can only reach out it's tentacles and eat people. It also has many faces with myriad motives. The CIA is the surgeon, with tiny sharp scalpels sticking out on long robotic arms for instance.
Along with that interpretation of our government as a being, I'd like to show it over time. I have an idea in mind about various 20th century wars being the crests of waves, with smaller conflicts being ripples and wakes. I was thinking of teasing peoples messianic view of obama, even though i voted for him. (Obamanation).
The conclusion of this will move past critiques of the status quo and suggest a radically synergistic way of being. I'd like to incorporate hindu imagery because it would be very, very fun to animate. I imagine.
Monday, October 13, 2008
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