ma major project
experiments in digital puppetry
main sequence shots with commentary
Title with Iris.
The text is dynamic and can be changed programmatically or by simply editing the patch. No rendering necessary.
Full Title
The movie title blurs and is designed to look like poor tele-cined old film. The picture frame is lifted from the old cartoon. The smoke effect (hard to see in the still) is applied in real-time.
Easel with Video Composite
This is an example of the live video mouth and pre-recorded eyes being composited into the graphical image.
With Iris
The iris can be used for transitions, or, as illustrated here to aesthetically crop and frame the content
“Minnie” is Red Hot with iris
Real-time animated smoke and flame. Colour of the flame is MIDI controllable. Iris is MIDI controllable.
Minnie’s silhouette can blur, again MIDI controllable.
Flame colour fading in. The saturation is MIDI controllable.
Same. At full saturation.
Live Video Eyes and Mouth - these are a dynamic element and can appear whenever.
A Town House / Palace
The Ballroom (Minnie in Focus)
This scene is ‘3D’ - or 2 and a half D - made of four flat layers.
King of Sweden (in Focus)
Each layer has a midi controllable blur factor.
The scene rotating. This will be controllable.
Theatre with Piano
Apparition sings. Like above, the scene elements are on separate layers and are ‘blurrable’.
And rotatable in 3D space.
End Credits
the end credits are technically different from the other scene elements. There are played in sequence (once only) using a simple ‘scene transition’ patch I created. This is to experiment with other forms of transition. Here the two screens ‘cross-fade’ over a duration of 2 seconds.
The text is dynamic - and can be changed on the fly. The blur is animated and attempts to simulate imperfect tele-cining of film to video.
Ian Grant January 2007