The idea of this hole project was making two short animation films that could be usefull for the advertising campaign for the Under The Radar ACTLab Film & Video Festie. To see the videos just click bellow.
Pong_flash animation (for this video you'll need the quicktime player).
Under the radar_flash animation (you'll need the quicktime player too).
Both animations were cultural and aesthetic hacking. The first one called "Pong" was a hacking for the classic Atari video game, changed into a political ironic piece.
Using Macromedia Flash 8, I recreated the "Pong" environment just drawing sticks, and then I changed the pong ball into different celebreties and political figures. Cutting and pasting in the Photoshop to make the "mouths" to be animated in the flash. And finally, I downloaded some sounds of the characters to make the lip sync. And the rest is history.
The second one, called "Under the radar", is an aesthetic hacking animation. I found a very intersting image at the Mr. Bungle booklet from the album called Disco Volante. This image comes from the italian drawings from the XV century. I took this image from the cd booklet and scanned, to have it into the computer. On the Macromdeia Flash, I took the image and trace it with the Wacom Table, and separate every arm and leg from the body to animate it. So I have this two characters animated and talking in this fake and nonsense languaje. The idea of the hole piece was doing something nonsense in every aspect, when it comes to the story and from the formal aspects of the languaje. Nothing makes sense, and that's the most complicated part. So there you go. Hope you enjoy it. Cheers. |
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