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playmesumch00ns
04-02-2003, 09:32 AM
This was my segment of a group collaboration recently completed for the Random Dance Company. The brief was to explore themes related to species and extinction and our work was projected as a backdrop/environment to the contemporary dance show.

Premiere was on March 6th and the show, entitled "Project: Alpha" is now touring the UK. Further details can be found at www.alphadance.org

I chose to explore man's innate destructive instinct, and this is what I came up with. The entire thing was modelled, shaded, animated (fire dance is mocapped) and rendered in around 4 weeks. As such I think it's a bit rough around the edges in some places. I did produce an additional sequence of about 45 seconds, but the quality of those shots didn't stand up due to the rush and had to be dropped.

In the end the company chose not to include the fire dancer in the production: it's a children's show and they felt a burning dancer would be a little too much. A guy having his skin peeled off is fine tho. Go figure:shrug: :)

Anyways, here's the links to the movie files, Right-click/save-as as always (PAL, ~2 mins):

http://www.hotboxstudios.co.uk/misc/anders/firedance.avi
(DivX 5.0.2 - 26MB)
http://www.hotboxstudios.co.uk/misc/anders/firedance_qt.avi
(Motion JPEG A - 170MB)
http://www.hotboxstudios.co.uk/misc/anders/firedance_mpeg4-v2.avi
(MPEG4 - 15MB)
playmesumch00ns
04-02-2003, 11:11 AM
cmon guys! 50 views and no replies?
Mythigo
04-02-2003, 03:13 PM
Overall I think it's great; cool visuals. To make it acceptable for children the skin should peel off to reveal a fuzzy creature underneath to represent man's inner...uh...fuzziness. Add some burp and farts and you've got a hit. At least that what I gather from Nickelodian.
playmesumch00ns
04-02-2003, 06:30 PM
Hehe! I can just imagine, fur to add to it too! I like the burp and farts idea tho, I may have to add some sound effects!
stephen2002
04-02-2003, 07:35 PM
the flames were pretty good, however the camera angle changes were not really necessary and they didn't even have fades.

The skin might have worked better if it were more "ripped" instead of "cut and peeled" off of the body, if you know what I mean.

I can imagine this might be really interesting played to some background music.
playmesumch00ns
04-02-2003, 08:08 PM
Thanks stephen!

The camera angles were chosen to make sure that the form of the dancer was apparent - it's quite easy to lose a strong silhouette otherwise. I agree about the need for fades--didn't have time to edit it it as much as I would have liked!

I agree it would be nicer if the skin ripped off, but it was hard enough to do the cutting and peeling!!

I definitely agree about the need for some background music, that's something I'll have to add in the future:)
stephen2002
04-03-2003, 01:20 AM
I didn't mean hold the camera still, I was just thinking more sweeping motion instead of cutting to new angles. Just a thought :shrug:
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