Animation 3

With this piece, I wanted to create it like it was at the top of a mountain with the view of the landscape. The sheet ghost looking around before making a decision to enter the mirror. Similar to the last one. With this render I had a couple of issues with the landscape, I used another translucent to create the illusion of depth but I couldn't really get it right. It looks very white washed but then I remembered that air also has a colour, the atmosphere would give things a kind of white density over the landscape depending on the distance it is away from the viewer. With all these animations I am creating I am going to be adding a soundscape/track to the which can hopefully resonate to the animation and atmosphere I am going for. I am not too sure if I do like this one because of the way the sun falls upon the objects in the scene, but I do like how the sheet ghost moves with the wind and bushes moves with them.

Animation 2

In this animation you can see another change in my work. I added greater depth to the background by finding translucent images of trees and foliage without putting too much strain on my laptop creating fully rendered trees. It helped me make my image look more sophisticated and realistic as in the past I have just ignored the depth aspect without adding a background that you would see in everyday life.

I also added a mirror to piece, I did ask permission from a classmate if I could do this because I didn't want to step on anyone's toes. The reason I added this is because I was thinking about liminal spaces and how to create a larger environment and Michael Foucault came up in my mind and I remembered reading about how he talks about the use of a mirror as a heterotopia.

In Foucault' lecture "Of Other Spaces," he describes mirrors as both utopian and heterotopias because they are places without a place. A mirror reflects an image that is virtual, yet it exists and has a sort of reality, it allows you to see yourself where you are not. So I added a mirror to the environment, the sheet approaches the mirror and walks into it, then the mirror turns into a rough surface, like it has absorbed the sheet.

There is one frame that I completely love from this render, its where the can see the full detail of the sheet ghosts front in the reflection of the mirror. I think its the most realistic piece I have created to this date.

Animation 1

Above is the first animation I have created. You can see in this one it is different to the ones I have created before. The grass sways in the wind and so do the trees. This one was quite challenging because I was still struggling to create a immersive environment but I feel that I have successfully accomplished that. While I was creating this piece, I was playing around with keyframes (keyframes are directions that happen along the timeline which impacts a part of the scene. Colour, movement, etc)

I used the keyframes to make the sheet go from a solid to a translucent along the way.

This gave it a whole new aspect to this piece. I will be adding a soundscape to this piece, for when I upload it to YouTube and the NFC tags.