Wild Animal Design Prof. Dr. Uta Brandes Lewis Just Pedro Jun KISD | Fachhochschule Kรถln 2012
Idealization Based on the project’s theme “Wild Animal Design� we thought about creating a visualization of wild animals rebelling against the human kind with weapons that would be designed specifically for each of them. The first idea was to create short animation episodes of fights between animals and humans. We then started researching on how revolutions come to existance. Revolutions need mutual knowledge of the repressed group and this is only possible among wild animals of different species if they could communicate to each other. How to make animals realize the humanitarian mistreat of nature and animals? Making the interspecies communication possible. One direction then would be to design a system or service that could realistically depict how animals from different species could communicate. A second one would be to represent this service or system metaphorically so that the project would then focus more on the implications of whether animals would actually rebel against humans by being able to talk to each other and make spectators of the project reflect about how human kind have been developing their own world with no regard of wild animals and nature.
Conceptualization We decided on a concept of an animation that tells a cautionary tale which there would be a service of animals to communicate. The language and style of the animation should have comic effect so that spectators can more easily give their attention to it and still relate to it without a too serious attachment.
Execution The script was developed as the following scenes: - Humans destroying nature and taking the wild space for themselves. - A penguin helpless while the ice melts under it. - Examples of different animals suffering from changes made by humans. - An explanation of the importance of mutual knowledge for a revolution to take part. - A comic visualization of the system later named as “Animals Gone Wild”, a subtle reference of the “Girls Gone Wild” american erotic website, simply for comic effect. - The last scene is an assumtion of what could happen after animals could communicate and potentially organiza themselves: A post apocaliptic background while the camera zoom in the Statue of Liberty’s face and the animals are standing on her head with a “Animals Gone Wild” flag. The scene fades out with a song referenced from the movie Terminator 2. All objects for the animation were drawn as vector in Adobe Illustrator. Most of the characters were created directly in Illustrator without any major prior conceptualization (sketches and such).
Real references of animal images were used for character creation. The animation was the compiled in Adobe After Effects.
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Result The final animation was satisfactory for both of us. Considering it was a short term project, the animation attends our expectations of being funny, dinamic, short and relating to the reflection of how we humans mistreat the wild realm for our own sake. click here for the animation!
KISD | Fachhochschule Kรถln 2012