Order and Chaos

Through this project, I am going to illustrate the words order and chaos. I want to create a story board for a title sequence to a cartoon. The cartoon is going to be about two friends with very different personalities. Throughout the series, they learn how both order and chaos have functional contributions that can add to a very ordered life in Wendy's situation and an extremely chaotic life in Jenny's situation.

Artistically speaking, I want to add both elements of Tim Burton, Henry Selick, and Adam Elliot's gothic styles with the brightly colored styles of Ray Caesar and Yoko D’holbachie. I want to combine opposing styles into one to show the extreme differences of the characters. These are two styles I am really drawn to and am delighted to combine into one cartoon. I think it will have an interesting and unique result. Pictured below are inspirational images of the artists mentioned above.

Cake Stop Motion

For this piece, I want to create a short stop motion to show the flow of movement and create visual illusions. I want to go through the process of making and baking a cake using a Lego man as an assistant to the baker. The whole idea of stop motion for me is to create the illusion that inanimate objects can in fact actually move. I will mix pieces of live action with pieces of stop motion to get things like eggs and the box to move by themselves. The Lego man will be getting the ingredients put into the bowl. I will use transitions to show the Lego man putting in an ingredient that is not needed and then reversing the images to make it appear as if he is taking the ingredient back out. I will also use transitions to help with repetition of certain parts of the film. For example, when the Lego man has to dump several cups of mix into the bowl. I am going to have the Lego man seem to fall into the cake and get baked. Then when the cake is done, the figure will emerge from the cake and frost it. I plan to use both camera photos and video stills to create this short video. I will also use the natural light from my kitchen to complete the project.

Here is a youtube link to my project: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppE85HB8tl4