BALLE – 3d animation

This post is related to Animation course by Nicolò Ceccarelli and Andrea Brogi at Architecture University in Alghero. The project has been developed together with Federica Carta, Francesco Fogu and Luna Gasparini.

During the last four month of this accademic year we worked on 3d animations with professors Nicolò Ceccarelli and Andrea Brogi.

Me and my group worked on a simple but funny story that had the aim of answering a critique question: what happens to a ball once it falls in the hole?

We started with the storyboard to get a clear idea of how the story should developed; we focused on the most interesting and chatching parts eliminating other extras.

Then we proceded to the aniamtic in with we started placing the cameras and moving the “characters” and setting up the music.

Here below you can see the final animatic.

To realise the video we used Maya 2009, After Effect, Photoshop and Illustrator.

Personally i cared mostly about the animations, the editing and a little bit of lighting in the pinball scene.

DISCLAIMER: The musics are not ours: Buonasera – Fred Buscaglione;  Sing Sing Sign – Benny Goodman; 1,2,3, go! – dj rave vs dj traxx

Around the World – Fortunato Depero

I realized this video as a multimedial features of a stage performance of the theater company “La corte dei Miracoli“. The performance included lectures of futuristic plays by different authors and the prizegiving to winning competitors in a poetical competition about futurism.

The concept behind the video come to me while watching the  video of the popular dance song “Around the World” by Daft Punk. I thought that combining the paintings and advertisements by futuristc artist Fortunato Depero with this song could be a effective and nice way to explain a little bit of the artist to today people rather that making a boring video with pictures fading staticly into one another.

The video has been projected during the performance on the 18th of June 2009 in the Teatro Civico in Sassari.

Disclaimer: obviously neither the music (Daft Punk) nor the pictures (Fortunato Depero) are mine.

Con-Tact…Workshop Interaction Design 2009

Last week, in the Alghero Faculty of Architecture, within the Design Course there was a workshop about Interaction and Sevice Design.

Professor Konrad Baumann and professor Gerrit Van der Veer made two parallels workshops on the subjects and both student from second and first year participated.

I followed the workshop led by prof Baumann and, together with my group (Barbara Carcangiu, Francesco Fogu, Eria Floris, Maria Chiara Sotgiu, Nicola Vargiu) we concentrated on kids and what kind of product should we develop for them.

We made interviews, developed personas and scenarios to understand what kind of product could benefit this type of user.

We found out that rather that using commercial games like LEGO or computers, young kinds prefer to play with rough material, common things. In addiction to that, interviews revealed that kind from different ages like to play together, helping each other.

This is very good from a social side, but if you think about the mess kids will make playing with paper, paint and sand, you will feel a little sad for the parents. Also for work like those is very difficult to make an archive of the child works, whitch is someting that parents and teachers are very interested in.

What we end up thinking about was a kind of digital interactive paper, that you can fold, carry out, attach with other and use as a high tech canvas. We didn’t bother about the tecnology that should be behind it, but on the experience you would like to provide to the user. Even if now such technology is not aviable, in 20 year it might be possible.

To develop the interface we realized different proposal for icons, colors and structure. Since the device would be very technological, we preferred to stay simple with the grafics. We started from emoticons-like icons and arrived to single-stroke images.

Disclaimer: the music (Nina Wall) is not our.