BAJA'S BLOG

As for the story of the drunken stapler I am thinking of ending the stapler's chaotic scene by stapling a forehead of the worker in the office. Just to show how painful stapling a forehead can be I have provided a video.

If you don't like blood, please don't play the video.

this post is in progress...

As part of the animators research for the essay I have chosen to do my research of Ray Harryhausen. In my opinion I believe he is a genius who revolutionized the art of Stop-Motion animation.

I grew up watching some of his movies and I totally adore his work, although at the time I used to get scared by the monsters.

Nevertheless I believe he has contributed a lot in the animation industry and therefore he is an important person to talk about.

I seriously can't sleep these days and it is affecting my concentration level when I arrive at my lectures. I am going to use this opportunity to do some more research for my project and perhaps try to refine my story.

I have been looking up on YouTube for movements of drunk people and I would try to study their motion to my best ability and apply the drunk motion on to my stapler.

Here are some footages taken from YouTube









The last one is the most hilarious one, I just couldn't stop laughing all the way.

So as to designing my stapler I have looked up on some funky Staplers and here are my findings:

• The Stapler who gets drunk everytime when it staples
• The stapler perhaps feels dizzy when he is manhandled and is forced to staple papers

• The Stapler that loves to staple anything it sees

Homeless Category

• Rusty old Stapler

Broken Category

• Broken Stapler left in the darkness (somewhere inside a house)

I can't quite get a story into my head at the moment but I think if I put them in categories I guess could come up with a good conditional story later in the evening or by friday at the latest.

Just got back from my lecture and I have acquired my two components and they are

• The Inebriated
• Stapler

Now the only task left to do is research and development. My purpose is to research in depth for the above components and elaborate it into a 1minute original 2D hand drawn Animation within 5weeks - starting from today.

I looked up the word 'inebriated' in the dictionary and here is the definition

• Exhilarated or stupefied by or as if alcohol; intoxicated

The real purpose is to give life to the objects that we have randomly been given to us. Our quest is to find out how to make it look alive. How can a stapler look alive? - What are the key ingredients to a successful animated Stapler? and most importantly ... How can I make a stapler become drunk?

To answer those questions I must research back into the History of Animation and widen my research.

I have just looked at the brief for Unit 5 and I am over the moon. I think it's finally going to be our first original animation based purely in 2D. I am quite excited about the experiences and knowledges that we are going to acquire during this project.

I have still got to get my two components to start with my project and I feel I can finally produce some quality work for this project.

One of the reasons I am excited about our next project is the fact that we are going to animate with a pencil and we would have the opportunity to learn from the best to succeed.

Let us begin our next quest!

Now I gotta go to my lecture

Red-Bull with Pro-Plus caffeine tablets is the worst combination to digest when you are in need of help. But I have come to realize that these two do not work quite well and it has made me feel sick for the last 2hours. I have been working on the project all night and yesterday and the last 3 days almost non-stop... perhaps maybe that could be causing me the trouble or maybe I just consumed a lot of Red-Bull or Caffeine tablets :-(

I am still currently working on my Pre-Vis on Maya and having some trouble wit the animation even tho it might be simple, it is time consuming.

I blame myself for all the red-bull and I don't think I should risk going Uni for today.

La Jetee was very influential juxtaposition film, there was no action footage involved but it carried a very strong sense of mood and story. It is a compilation of pictures put in certain order to tell a story, and it was done beautifully. I started to feel that some part of the idea was taken from the methods of Matrix the manga. However, it served clean narrative throughout the whole duration. It is the exact influence for our project of how it should be done to deliver a story in exact 1min.

After watching the film, I didn't understand the full context of the film, so I researched online for more in-depth details as to the story. After some extensive research I came to realize, how important La Jetee served in the history of film-making. After I had done my research I started to adore and respect the story it delivered with only pictures. Of course, sound, was the driving force behind the story, especially with the heart beating sound makes the audiences feel quite uneasy and instantly draws their attention even more. 

I tried redesigning couple of different shoe types for my final scene, however for each attempts, the shoe or the trainers, never appeared better than my first version. So I think it is better for me to stick with this version of my trainer to be put as my final.

My aim was to create a cartoonish theme into my Uncanny project, my influence was brought forward from a student made short animation "The Cricket".

A constructive feedback about my final project from myself would be that I don't like the way my trainer looks. It is just ridiculas, and my mum thought it was a mobile phone. LoL. Hopefully soon enough I would learn to make anything I want.