final animation

here it is! the final animation. this was such an enjoyable experience. i really liked making this. i think it was because the scene is rather feel good, as is the movie in an all too idealized way. the music in this scene is fabulous and really catches the cadence of the scene. this was brought to my attention at the final review. i think that i had known this music was the secret to the cadence, but did not perceive it analytically in my process. at the end i added the music to my animation, after a musicless process.

a bit about the music itself, which would have been interesting to analyze in tandem with the scene, had i recognized this earlier: the director of the film, Jean-Pierre Jeunet was intrduced to the music of Yann Tiersen through a chance encounter. the music is largely accordion and piano driven. he instantly became a fan and commissioned him to compose pieces for the film. some of the pieces in the film were from his previous three albumns, while others he made for the movie. i could not find whether the film maker was inspired by the music before making this scene, or if the music was made after the scene, but i would guess that the filmmaker was inspired by the music and he made this scene to go with it because of the specific cadence of the scene (the tempo, the way the camera shots are edited together, the position of the camera sometimes up close in their faces and others along side of them etc) and its direct relationship with the music.

making this animation brought me great joy. using final cut was great, i had never used it before and was suprised by how easy it was! the process of making an animation is very similar to making physical models and collages. it is extrememly rewarding. in the end, some of my final comments touched on how this animation is beautiful and happy, makes you feel good. and i definitely got that feeling as i was making it. it was pure fun. i think that architecture needs stuff like this. architects, especially in academia, are always looking for the rigor, the analysis (christine's project for example, was highly rigorous) and this stuff has a particular appeal to architects. but what about all the people that this architectural internetion/ building/ whaterever will be for? will this building make them happy? will they want to keep it around for a long time? feelings are important. this animation process was a combination of analysis and unconsiousness. in the end, there was not a lot of conceptual weight to what i had done. therefoere, the critics were less interested (or so i feel), because they weren't getting the intellectual stimulation that they were hoping for. this dissapoints me. why can't people just let their emotions take over a little bit? why can't they just say "i like it!" it's fun!" and be happy about it. perhaps i could have been more rigorous, but having little to no experience with electric image and final cut prior to this, and discovering a new lens through which to explore archietctural ideas, i got wrapped up in the making. i am thrilled with the final animation and really pleased with this course. i learned so much and look forward to exploring architectural proposals in new ways.