Project overview
Pre-Production-Concept Art
Case Study -German Expressionism
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This project challenges to use my design knowledge and skills to produce a piece of animated work based on the theme of German Expressionism.
Many contemporary directors, artists and games developers have been inspired by German Expressionism in recent years.
I will gain an understanding of their reasons for reinvigorating this genre. I will research both German Expressionist origins and explore its connotations and design rules. Here I will use this to influence your own concept environment piece.
During the completion of this project there will be the following opportunities to develop the literacy and numeracy:
Literacy:
Numeracy:
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1/12/2017
Art style of German Expressionism
Expressionism was a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it radically for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas. Expressionist artists sought to express the meaning of emotional experience rather than physical reality.
Expressionism was developed as an avant-garde style before the First World War. It remained popular during the Weimar Republic, particularly in Berlin. The style extended to a wide range of the arts, including expressionist architecture, painting, literature, theatre, dance, film and music.
Expressionist art tried to convey emotion and meaning rather than reality. Each artist had their own unique way of "expressing" their emotions in their art. In order to express emotion, the subjects are often distorted or exaggerated. At the same time colors are often vivid and shocking.
The term is sometimes suggestive of angst. In a general sense, painters such as Matthias Grünewald and El Greco are sometimes termed expressionist, though in practice the term is applied mainly to 20th-century works. The Expressionist emphasis on individual perspective has been characterized as a reaction to positivism and other artistic styles such
as Naturalism and Impressionism.The classic phase of the Expressionist movement lasted from approximately 1905 to 1920 and spread throughout Europe. Its example would later inform Abstract Expressionism, and its influence would be felt throughout the remainder of the century in German art. Expressionism was a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it radically for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas.
The German Expressionist movement was initially confined to Germany due to the isolation the country experienced during World War I. In 1916, the government had banned foreign films. The demand from theaters to generate films led to an increase in domestic film production from 24 films in 1914 to 130 films in 1918. With inflation also on the rise, Germans were attending films more freely because they knew that their money's value was constantly diminishing.
Besides the films' popularity within Germany, by 1922 the international audience had begun to appreciate German cinema, in part due to a decreasing anti-German sentiment following the end of World War I. By the time the 1916 ban on imports was lifted, Germany had become a part of the international film industry.
Various European cultures of the 1920s embraced an ethic of change and a willingness to look to the future by experimenting with bold, new ideas and artistic styles. The first Expressionist films made up for a lack of lavish budgets by using set designs with wildly non-realistic, geometrically absurd angles, along with designs painted on walls and floors to represent lights, shadows, and objects. The plots and stories of the Expressionist films often dealt with madness, insanity, betrayal and other "intellectual" topics triggered by the experiences of World War I (as opposed to standard action-adventure and romantic films). Later films often categorized as part of the brief history of German Expressionism include Metropolis (1927) and M (1931), both directed by Fritz Lang. This trend was a direct reaction against realism. Its practitioners used extreme distortions in expression to show an inner emotional reality rather than what was on the surface.
I was trying to draw German expressionism character
films which ware inspired by German expressionism
the films Nosferatu
the film Metropolis
the film The cabinet of Dr Caligari
Modern cultural examples influenced by German Expressionism.
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| this images follow some of German expressionism rules like dark and spiky shape of building . Monochromatic |
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| That a photograph wired angel of background shadows |
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| sad expression in face and dark shadow |
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| Expression of fight with dark and shadow |
(Timothy Walter Burton was born August 25, 1958) is an American film director, producer, artist, writer, and animator. He is known for his dark, Gothic, and eccentric horror and fantasy films such as Beetlejuice (1988), The Nightmare Before Christmas(1993), Sleepy Hollow (1999), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007), Dark Shadows(2012), and Frankenweenie (2012). He is also known for blockbusters such as the adventure comedy Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985), the superhero films Batman (1989) and its first sequel Batman Returns (1992), the sci-fi film Planet of the Apes (2001), the musical adventure film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), and the fantasy film Alice in Wonderland (2010). and his recent release film is 2016 Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.
His art work his mostly look like German expressionism atmospheric. I choice him cause we have same project like German expressionism environment. here is his website http://timburton.com/
His art work are all most similar most of them are wired angels and shapes.
he use dark colour hunted place in most his art work.
His art work his mostly look like German expressionism atmospheric. I choice him cause we have same project like German expressionism environment. here is his website http://timburton.com/
His art work are all most similar most of them are wired angels and shapes.
he use dark colour hunted place in most his art work.
6/12/17
Experimental drawing for German expressionism
I tried to draw space station
Mind Map
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| I have came up with 10 different idea for my environment drawing with German expressionism |
8/12/17
Then i have started making silihutes of my ideas
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| That one is building from city centre |
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| Library with German expressionism |
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| Normal House |
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| Shop |
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| Stares and passage |
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| Mountain and hill |
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| Gallery of a boxing stage |
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| Tried to make a forest place with German expressionism |
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| Tried to make river and bank |
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| tried to make a space station |
8/1/2018
Developing of my 4 silhouettes of my 10 ides of German expressionism environment
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| Shop I have add some more effect so that it looks like German expressionism style here i add glass effect and some pillars. |
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| I just started painted over that |
12/01/2018
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| I add some spiky shape and add some more darkness |
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| I add some more shades and different shape of tiles and some shadows |
Finally I found my German expressionism library is gonna be perfect to draw.
I chose that one because I got some nice ideas of making animation.
19/01/2018
Research on animation timeline
Mind Map
Background
Problem Solving |
| Here you can see the first one i had some problem that might not seen properly but that's that problem for me, the first problem was the colour that was to bright and light and its feels like so happy colour that's way It don't match with the German expressionism. When I Made that colour bit darkie it's making sense. even there was floor tiles and stares and books selves does not match with there sizes. in the first one I put all the selves in a row with the same size in different position . but they meant to be large, medium and small size. cause there is three different floor . they all have different distant from each other. that's why I made like them as 3 different sizes the top ones are bit smallest then medium ones and medium one bit smaller from the bottoms selves. and some stares did not have making sense that's why I change a bit to make them sense. and hear i used a pattern in my all the floor Rather than using the tiles. that pattern i made it for different purpose. I use pattern because my floor has got nearest or closest view and very far view as well that's way i have to put something that easily can easily fit in to my floor with different distances view. |
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| background for my animation 09/02/2018   After finished my background I started working with my animation frame. it was take time to decide that how i should start work. I was thinking that i should draw individual frame of the books but then i realise that there is 3D option that we can rotate any object in any angle. Then i just draw a one sided view of cover of book. then i select that cover layer then i click new 3D extrusion from selected layer from 3D option of top of the menu bar. then it's turn into a 3d object. I copied that several times then i started taking single of them then just simple rotate that in different angle and resteraize that layer. I did same thing again and again for my 12 single frame and i had to edit some of them as well because of i did not know that much about 3D option in Photoshop because I did some mistake and I had to fixed them . Then i copied all of them single frame and started put different colours on them.   
16/02/18
Animation final presentation
I put all of mine animation frame. I have 12 individual frame for my animation
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First of all I have come up with 10 different ideas for my environment drawing with German expressionism and I made a mind map for them the ideas were making a library, a mountain or hill with cave, a house, shop, a gallery of boxing stage, a stares, a river with banks, a space station, building of a city and forest place. I made silhouette for all of them. Then I choose stares, cave, shop and library to further develop. I used all most similar technique for all of my silhouette of environment the technique were golden spiral and rule of third this are very useful things that you can easily find a shape for your environment. I could not use the other helpful methods because that project has got his own requirement. Such as environment object needs to be in spiky shape, monochromatic, shape dynamics, abstract and inner turmoil. I can not use the leading lines and perspectives view here. If I used them in here then it could be so hard to get perfect view of German expressionism art style.
From that 4 environment I had chosen the library as my final product. I chose that because I feel that my library fit in to German expressionism art style perfectly.
I designed my library by rule of third as you can see that here three parts of vertical and horizontal both side. One of that part I made it as totally matched with German expressionism. That was not easy to make senses of that walk ways. So that’s way the rest of the parts I made very sample.
I learn a very sample technique that are quit useful to animate anything. We know that for that animation we have to show the object in 3D then we have to draw frames to make it feel that object is moving. Here I found that using 3D option in Photoshop is very useful if your object is very sample. For this project I had to do the books fallen from top and for that I might had to draw that all frames individually because of 3D option I had not done that way. I just draw a one sided view of cover of book Then I select that cover layer then I click (new 3D extrusion from selected layer) from 3D option of top of the menu bar. Then it's turn into a 3D object. After that I just sample rotate that books in different angle then rasterize that 3D layer and edit some of his parts to make it more realistic.
I research on an artist called Tim Burton because he has got lots of work which he was influenced by German expressionism and I research about animation timeline and I did a little experiment of my animation before I began my work on animation the experiment was bit simple quit hard. I had just draw a small part of my animation to know that how it would be look like after I animated all. After that experiment I found that it’s going to quit easy to make t
hat animation happen if I just change the colours of books and copied them again and again. First I thought I have to draw all the books falls in different angle but I did not I just observe a book from different angel how it is going to be look like when it is falling and I watched some videos from YouTube how the books look like when they falls even I watched some different style of falling videos in YouTube from a movie called Ghostbusters even I found a game of Ghostbusters movie they have used books as a monster in that game.
  I wish I could do that for my animation as well but I did not go that far. I am satisfied with my work and I am satisfied with my animation. Because I have learn some different technique that can help me later. I have learn some technique from YouTube. |
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