Final project synopsis

Oghab is a working title for a short film based on Parviz Khanlari’s poem, which is a metaphorical story recited by animal characters. In the story the main character Oghab (the eagle), the symbol (or archetype) of dignity, splendour and bravery in the animal kingdom, whose fast approaching death urges him to quest for a remedy to avoid the inevitable, ironically through an eye opening dialogue with his antagonist (the crow) realises that the key to the lengthy life of his adversary is cowardice, over-conservatism and a not-so-dignified life style, the qualities that are in contrary with his values and finally decides to continue his short but dignified life.

Painting/Animation interdisciplinarity

As a painter who has come to do animation, I have been recently asking questions about the inter-disciplinarity of the two practices.

Here I have imported two of my paintings into XSI and have textured a grid and a sphere with them and then juxtaposited the sphere on the flat painting, added light and animated the sphere on the 2d surface. As it is evident in the images, the 3rd dimension, lighting, navigation around the textured objects (or paintings) and of course animation have added extra qualities to the work, while they might have detached us from the physicality of the paintings.

I suppose a lot could be explored with regards to similarities/ dissimilarities of the two practices and their overlappings and(possible) converging points, which might be an interesting area for future research... Any comments? please feel free to contribute.

MA DGD/A programmes' strength

Jon Weinbren has a profound understanding of film, screenwriting and character development ,which is helpful to all MA DGD/Animation students. For a good understanding of character development and screenwriting helps improve the narrative of the digital game or the animated piece.