Flash Animation Mocks

February 7th, 2010

For the assignment, I think I’m going to focus on the first part of my storyboard. I’ll animate Mr. Bread right up until the Bakerators show up.

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Flash Animation Storyboard

February 6th, 2010

I wanted to make an animated series about a team of bakery evangelists, who save baked goods from distress. Types of things they would rectify: burnt bottoms, burnt tops, moldy bread, stale bread, caved in cakes or muffins, vulnerability to being attacked by ants or mice.

Storyboard

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Hungry Octopus

January 27th, 2010

Here’s a video of my flipbook. Apologies for the dim video– I used a light table thinking it was the documentation station in its entirety.

Hungry Octopus from Mindy Tchieu on Vimeo.

In one of my earlier versions, I realized I had too much going on. I had the octopus pop-up from the bottom, and several fish come from both sides spewing bubbles, and then clouds, sun, and a rainbow coming from above. It was really hard for the eye to focus. So I started over and drew just the octopus head popping up, and then went back to add arms and a fish.

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Scents of Time

January 27th, 2010

Here’s our mockup for how our scent clock will work: Scent Clock

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Theory of Relativity

January 27th, 2010

According to the Theory of Relativity, time is not universal and does not flow at a fixed rate. No matter how many computers have their time set automatically by Apple, it’s always different for each one.

Time and speed are coupled– when a person goes fast, time goes slow and vice versa. In Radiolab, they demonstrated this by going to Central Park together, syncing their watches, and having one person strap on a turbo-charged jet-pack and blasting off into space, while the other person stayed stationary. After the rocketman returned, they compared watches and they were not in sync as we would normally expect. The rocketman’s watch was seven minutes slower than the stationary man.

I found a website (probably meant for kids, but everyone’s a kid in their own way) that does a nice job demonstrating time and speed’s affect on what we perceive.

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