Friday, January 30, 2009

Mechanical storytelling - Proposal

I will create a moving (animated) object, which is representing a narrative. There are mainly two big concepts; a moving object and a storytelling. Initially the Idea of mechanical storytelling is from automata.

According to the book named “Automata and Mechanical toys”, it says automata are programmed to execute a series of complicated movements within a time span.
A common way to generate the automata is turning a handle and this action creates the energy to trigger all mechanisms move the automata. All mechanisms make everything so magical. That is one of things that I like about automata also I want to explore for making a moving object.

Also as long as the object is moving, it has a timeline as the quote said which means the moving object has a big possibility to be able to represent a narrative.

I am planning to make a scene with several moving objects. To do that, I need to focus on how to represent the situation that I want by characterizing objects and their movements. I will focus on figuring out a good combination of mechanisms and a story and develop my own style from the established automata.

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