West Hollywood International Film Festival 2008

Vitruvius was a roman architect scholar whose ideas about proprtion and design influenced the visual style of the Renaissance. I took his idea of the golden section proportions and applied them to computer graphics and animation. This film was done as part of a class project for both an animation workshop and an electronic musical composition class that I attended. The film is experimental in nature. It explores the relationship between motion graphic techniques, electronic music and the use of traditional graphic design ideas as a way of visually organizing an animated film. The film is non-narrative in structure. My intention was to start with the notion of the Golden Section proportions as a starting point for initially organizing the visual look for a given scene within the film and then improvised the following visual images as far as I could before they started to become uninteresting and overly predictable.The style of the film combines both traditional card stock animation with animation done exclusively in the computer using commercially available software packages such as After Effects, Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator, the Flaming Pear Plug-in and Painter. The music was initially composed in Finale and then re-orchestrated in Pro Tools to create the final soundtrack. Most importantly, the animation is intended to be fun.