Exam Project Initial Idea

Initial Idea

After reading Joseph Addison's quote over and over again, I finally devised a full idea I wanted to work on, which consists in animating with music.
I'm calling my project 'Imagine Music', and this is somewhat going to be an animated music video to a short 1 min and 30 seconds long track.
This idea took me a while to come up with since I was having trouble trying to understand the quote and making something big out of it, but then decided to use certain words from the quote as a starting point, and relating them to something which hasn't been thought of before.
My plan is to create an animation using very simple shapes and different colours to visually show someone creating music in their mind. It will be shown in a first person view where the viewers will see basic movement from the characters imaginative hands, which will be doing different animated actions that change or take effect on the music.
I will be animating the hands by rotoscoping my own in a first person shot, and giving them very basic outlines, so the viewers can still see what is happening behind the hand, when it covers certain parts of the animation.

Inspirations

These Music video's inspired me a lot to come up with my animation idea, especially the ones made by Cornelius.

Cornelius - Smoke

This is one of the first music videos by Cornelius, and the thing I like most about this video is the play of words and how the animation is very well synced with the music, even though it is a very basic looking animation.



Cornelius - Coloris

The animation and the music in this video is very well made, and fits perfectly with the sound and style it is used in. This is originally the ending credits to a Japanese Gameboy Advanced game called Coloris, who Cornelius created all the sounds and animations for.



Cornelius - Fit Song

This is somewhat a stop motion animation which looks very realistic and it was fantastically make, showing every object in perfect sync with the music. There isn't a great deal I can say about this video other than the fact that it is amazing, and I cant quite understand how or what it was even made with.



Bonsajo - Vanishing Point

A very unique looking music video which is also very random, but shows a great blend between 2D and 3D animation, and synchronized very nicely with the music.