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| Oliver Looks Nervous |
In the beginning of this week I finished fixing my TFG
animation shot. I struggled a bit with Oliver’s arms. I had to make him look
worried and make him shrink his shoulders and pull his hands towards his chest
and for that Oliver’s back arm needed to go on top of his torso. That was a
puzzle for me. In the end I learnt the trick from my awesome mentors and now I
know how this problem can be solved.
I need to practice more character animation to polish my new skills.
The
big wow of the week was the size of the monitor I got for my working place. I
am so get used to my laptop monitor size and already forgot how it feels when
you are working on a big screen, especially on design projects.Thank you Julie
and everyone!
This
week I started working on mandala design for First Hand Climate Change Stories, directed by Alex Hawley and which is currently in development.
It’s about how native people of Yukon, in particular Gwich'in Nation or Old
Crow people, were affected by the environmental change.
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| Mandala Feather |
My task is to come up with Caribou
Mandala design that will be used in the film at least in three scenes and it
should match Alex’s initial Wolf bead artwork. I researched Native American
Art, symbols and design patterns, studied Gui’chin bead art and read about their
culture and history.
It is an amazing experience
for me to have a chance to work on this project because I myself have a
profound interest in environmental activism and sustainability. Another
coincidence is that I love everything about mandala design and sacred geometry
and I actually have been planning to come up with Sun Mandala design for my 4th
year film that will be called Dance of Life. And now I have a chance to
practice my mandala skills and figure out how to animate the rotation as well.
ha what were the chances to work on a Mandala project during my summer internship:)
For
those who are wondering what mandala is I found some info about
various types of Mandala:
- http://www.whats-your-sign.com/mandala.html
- About Native American Mandala Art Meanings: http://www.whats-your-sign.com/Native-American-mandala.html#myspot
And
here are some great sites that I bumped into while doing my research :
- Awesome Native Canadian & Inuit Graphic Art collection on Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/muffy2s/native-canadian-inuit-graphic-art/
On
history of Old Crow (Gwich'in Nation):
- http://www.oldcrow.ca/history.htm,
- http://www.yukonmuseums.ca/treasures/olc/02.html, http://arcticcircle.uconn.edu/ANWR/anwrgwichin.html
- http://www.ourworldlanguage.com/p/old-crow-yukon.html
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