Abstract Animation Reference

clips of Shinya Ohira's Wanwa the Puppy from Genius Party Beyond:

clip of Koji Morimoto's Dimension Bomb from Genius Party Beyond:

Richard Reeves' Linear Dreams:

Barbel Neubauer's Moonlight:

MORE OLDER ABSTRACT ANIMATIONS:

Norman McLaren-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3-vsKwQ0Cg&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjl0i_p_pow&feature=related

Lye Len-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_9kk59t-tU&feature=related

Harry Smith-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wYJ51nSXRQ

Walter Ruttmann-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9V8DjVBqHBA

Hans Richter-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhv2KpQGMqY

Viking Eggeling-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzQfzBUWHTc

Oskar Fischinger-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrZxw1Jb9vA&feature=PlayList&p=4CD0A710D9801329&playnext_from=PL&playnext=1&index=9

Abstract film: is a subgenre of experimental film. Its history often overlaps with the concerns and history of visual music.

Visual music: sometimes called "colour music," refers to the use of musical structures in visual imagery, which can also include silent films or silent Lumia work. It also refers to methods or devices which can translate sounds or music into a related visual presentation. An expanded definition may include the translation of music to painting; this was the original definition of the term, as coined by Roger Fry in 1912 to describe the work of Kandinsky.

Contemplating Story

I've been really trying to figure out the overall story. I feel like my first story may be too difficult to pull off in the amount of time I have. So far I haven't felt like I have a final one thought of and written down.

shorter story ideas:

-A space man lands on a planet and explores it, but slowly becomes infected by the planet's environment and slowly turns into a predator himself after being chased by so many. He is then killed by another space man that has just crash landed on the planet. So then it makes you wonder if all the predators on the planet used to be space men as well.

-After landing on a planet filled with predators, the space man becomes lonely and eventually gives up on defending himself against them, but just before the greatest predator he faces tries to kill him, a rescue team arrives.

I think some of these would be a little more typical and less story driven, but it may be needed...

Here's another intro sequence storyboard:

"Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story." -Margaret Thatcher

"We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax." -Samuel Goldwyn