Skunk Fu! Animation Style

I like the bright solid colours and minimalist animation style when it comes to textures and detail, to emphasize the characters and actions in the episodes.

Concept 1: Synopsis and Storyboard

The animation is the beginning of a much broader story, introducing the main character and setting to continue the story in depth. The animation opens with the daily life of the main character in approximately 1-2 second long extreme closeups snapshotting her life, emphasising our dependence on technology in our day to day lives and the mundane routine of daily life. Here it is revealed that she works for a security company monitoring phone conversations, she is currently looking for her sister who has been missing for some months, and is one in a lone line of people who have recently gone missing. On an international level, there is the very real threat of war between America and China, and in preparation for war, America has started a controversial army breeding program which is rumoured to be in crisis. That night she is abducted and wakes up inside the underground breeding program with a small group of people who have rescued her from the breeding facility, which is now overrun by awol soldiers. She has 48 hours to try and find her sister and reach the other side of the facility to escape.

Editing Style

I like the editing style in Shaun of the Dead, where mundane parts of the movie are sped up by quickly showing closeups of what they are doing. In this video the extreme close ups are shown in the first few seconds.

Dollhouse

The TV series Dollhouse, is set in the present, where people have their minds wiped and replaced with new personalities and personal histories for hire for the rich. The idea of using machinery to permanently alter someone's mind and then wipe it for a new assignment and artificially constructing personalities and histories to create completely new people for a few hours or a few days fascinating.

People in Machines

I started by looking at other Sci-Fi takes on the idea of The Post Human in Dr. Who. The episodes, The Long Game, Bad Wolf and The Parting of the Ways, are set on Satellite 5, which broadcasts all of the universe's news and entertainment to earth. The journalists in satellite 5 have implants in their brains, which are holes in the foreheads opened when you click your fingers, to connect with the satellite and gather and share information for broadcast, Using peoples brains as part of the computer. The season ends with The Doctor discovering that there is a girl permanently wired into the computer from the age of six.

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The season 2 episode, The Girl in the Fireplace, is a case of AI gone wrong, where a ship suffers so much damage that there are not enough parts to fix the ship, so the repair droids start using body parts from the crew as parts of machinery.

More Kinetic Type

This first animation is funny.



I like the idea of using type to create images.

MMD2306 - Margan Marganski Web Review

This website is specifically for sound. This website uses a minimal layout focusing only on words and sound. Sounds flow easily from one page to the other with very little loading time. Created in Flash, the website features words slowly appearing from a jumble of out of focus letters and a soundwave across the center which seems to react to the sounds played on the site. It is easy to browse different sounds in the site and you can enter a full screen mode for a more emersive experience. I thnk the useability and memorablitly of the site is very high but there are few options for flexability.

http://marganmarganski.pl/