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PASSWORD IS: ual2023
Audio visual presentation covers the same topic as the critical report, the presentation does not contain text from the report.
After conducting deeper research more relevant books and sources have been found for my critical report.
Real-Time Rendering. A book about the technology real-time rendering co written by Tomas Akenine Möller former Nvidia researcher and professor in computer science at Lunds university in Sweden, Nvidia software engineer Eric Haines, principal engineer and architect at Lucasfilms Naty Hoffman.
Möller Tomas, Haines, E. and Hoffman, N. (2019) Real-time rendering. Boca Raton: CRC Press.
Game Anim: Video Game Animation Explained by Jonathan Cooper.
COOPER, J.O.N.A.T.H.A.N. (2019) Game Anim: Video game animation explained. S.l.: CRC PRESS.
The focus of this week’s session was paraphrasing, specifically in an academic setting. Paraphrasing to put it simply is articulating the meaning of a passage without replicating its content. To demonstrate that we understand this Nigel tasked the class with paraphrasing the following parapgraph.
’The authenticity of a documentary is ‘deeply linked to notions of realism and the idea that documentary images are linked to notions of realism and the idea that documentary images bear evidence of events that actually happened, by virtue of the indexical relationship between image and reality’
The authenticity of a documentary is grounded in realism and documentary images depict real events (Roe, Animated documentary 2013)
This week Nigel discussed the characteristics and formalities of academic writing and the process of literature review.
The three books below have been chosen as research material for the critical report. Depending on the relevance of their content in relation to the topic of the report the appropriate book(s) will be chosen for literature review.
Ivory, J.D. (2015) A Brief History of Video Games. Routledge.
Kent, S.L. (2002) The ultimate history of video games: From pong to pokémon and beyond ; the story behind the craze that touched our lives and changed the world. Roseville, CA: Prima Publ.
Menache, A. (2011) Understanding motion capture for computer animation. Burlington, MA: Morgan Kaufmann.
Recap of academic writing:
Do’s
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In recent years animation in video games have become sophisticated and more ‘realistic’. There has been a visible difference between the quality of animation in films/tv compared to video games. This is evident by observing the first 3D animated movie Toy Story (1996) and comparing it to the biggest game released in the same year in terms of production budget and sales, Super Mario 64. In both visuals, and practice of animation principles Toy Story is superior to Super Mario 64, the same goes for most AAA games and big production movies. However, in recent years animation in video games have enjoyed an exponential increase in quality, my critical report explores how this happened and what are the main reasons for this upgrade in animation quality. When comparing video game animation to animation in film/tv this report will focus mainly on the post Toy Story era. Below are the main questions I will aim to answer in the report.
Paul Bush is a British experimental film maker and animator, some of his films resembles some of Jan Švankmajer’s work, the piece that this blog post focuses on ‘While Darwin Sleeps’ shares visual and technical similarities with Švankmajer’s ‘Historia Naturae, Suita’ (1967). Bush uses various conventional experimental film techniques, but he also uses unconventional methods. One of the more unique techniques Bush uses when making his films is scratching directly onto coloured filmstock layered over live action footage.
Bush made this film using over 3500 insects from the collection of Walter Linsenmaier in the natural history museum in Luzern, each insect used appears for only one frame. The film has a hypnotic element to it, making it at times feel ethereal and for a brief moment convey the illusion that these dead animals are alive.