Abstract Animations

Abstract Interprations

Below are some abstract line interpretations of my (bloody complicated) song, to get an idea of the tempo, motion and characteristics of my song, using line weight, length and texture to translate my song into lines.

This was mainly an exercise to just get the song clearly into my head and understand how motion could work for my animation to try and relate the moving picture to my song in a clearly understood manner.

More Animation Research

My song has a really fast tempo so I want to animate according to that, to make my animation harmonic throughout and not play like a bad record, below are some animations I found on the internet that I think are something to aim towards with pace and some qualities to match my song.

First is a gif animation, I was listening to the song at the same time as watching it and it made a really good connection, it's only around 8 seconds long but I don't believe the frame rate is too high so I believe I could produce a 20-30 second animation like this, an important thing to note from this is it's looping quality, I could watch it for minutes.

Below isn't a fast paced animation at all but I think it has some neat ideas about how to interpret musical elements into motion graphics, and it's Pokemon, I know.


Another animation I found below has a distorted sound track but incorporates this quality into the animation, flashing shapes and is really well executed, I like the digital vector art style it has too, using isometric grids to give a structural quality (and probably make it easier to animate).

Ideas Sketches

Awesome Animations

I can't imagine how much effort was put into this but I think it's one of the best animations/videos I've ever seen, it's like everything is synced with some part of the music, really great stuff.


 
The above animation is like an interactive comic book, it has a really unique way of telling the narrative to the audience, it's very enticing and makes you want to watch the rest.

Here is a great example of something like a zoetrope, done using a camera attached to a bicycle wheel.

I almost forgot about Jamie Hewlett and the Gorillaz, a fictitious band who have animations running throughout their music videos, recently these have become 3d model animations but here is a classic example of their 2d animation/illustrations.