Big Bamboo Production

My 1st Animation Entitled FeedBAck :)

Credit to

Director : Dianah
Script Writer : Afifah
Video Editor : Farhan
Sound Editor : Nurul Shuhaila



FeedBAck

Design Aesthetic Debate

Start.

"Ok!.... Assalamualaikum and a very good morning to our lecturer, eh good evening to our lecturer Dr Tan Wee Hoe, fellow judges, my fellow affirmative team member and not forget to the negative team also.

Before I continue, I would to introduce our team member which consist Mohd Nazri bin Idris as the second speaker that will talk about "drawing is an easy way to express idea". The second speaker Book Chang Wei will talk about history of design and last but not least our conclusion will be done by Nur Amira binti Yahya. Before that, I would like to stand out our teamline which is Drawing Skill is Better Than Computer Graphic Skill.

First of all, what is drawing? Drawing is drawing aaa a traditional fine art is something that teach us critical ways of looking at things by understanding their form, shape, perspective, vision and color.

Drawing isn't technical but its all about taking the spark of thought or idea and express it by your hand or gesture your emotion into a piece of paper. This idea usually come anytime, anywhere in just blink of eye. This is when we can see how important is drawing because imagine that the idea come suddenly and you will just remember it for a moment. Thats why by capturing it on a piece of paper, later you can review it, reedit or refine.

The second thing is drawing is very essential because every design start with drawing of sketches. Just lets take example of the Wright brothers that invented the first aircraft. Just think logically if the idea come suddenly, do you think they will on the spot built that aircraft? Of course not right? They must have a references. Thats why drawing is very essential. The drawing when the idea come they will draw the rough idea as a references later they will review it, reedit and refine. This was the first aircraft that was invented even without any computer graphic skill. Thats why drawing is better than computer graphic skill.

Mmm...and i would like to tell you another thing that if we cannot use a real drawing not if we cannot use real pencil there will be no drawing. Real drawing like Monalisa and Scream and so on. By using computer is only creating not drawing.

So the last, I would like to conclude and would like to stand out our teamline whic is Drawing Skill is Better than Computer Graphic Skill. Thank You"

Animation Evaluation Approach Critique

I have chosen animation HUNTED (HD) Horror Animation created by Leoncio Mercado. As we can see, this animation has horror genre thus the audience should feel scared and haunted.

My criterion is Audience should feel haunted while watching the movie to the extent where they imagine horror things when night appear.

Based on the animation created the flows of the story must be attracting especially with its storyline to get the audience into the story. From that I put principle of animation which is one of them is anticipation. Throughout watching the animation there is some overeacting movement and expression where can make the audience anticipating for next scene shown by human character with the corpse. There also connecting character between the human and the trr. It is unique to see when the storyline and characters does not reach the logically and realistic mind but still have its quality and attractiveness.

Now we go through scene by scene. This is the very beginning scene.

                              

As we can see, audience anticipate what the car and the human doing in the middle of the scary night, thus getting the audience to watch more to answer their question. This beginning scene the audience maybe doesn’t feel anything yet.

  

                              

Then, audience’s question answered when they saw the above scene. They know the human kill someone and want to bury the corpse. After that, there will be two situation where audience still attracted or not based on their judgment on the beginning of the scene. Audience that feel attracted will continue to watch while the others maybe quit. Thus, the beginning of every animation is important in order to make sure the audience will stay on watching it. On the 2^nd picture shows where the camera view focus on the corpse as something will happen to it. Again, audience anticipating.

   

The next scene, by watching human expression shows the human hearing something unusual. The human looks around while burying the corpse. This can make the audience again questioning what is it? A ghost? Somebody? And much more. From this, the audience started to feel something scare where maybe some of them imagine they are in the same situation.

Above scene shows where the corpse is moving, this causes audience even more anticipating then even attracted to watch more to answer the question and also even more scarier as unrealistic and illogical things happen where the corpse move by itself.

This scene shows how scary are the human is when seeing the horror tree moving. In this timeline, audience which immerse in the animation will feel the exact same feeling of the human. This what profesional animator is where they can make audience response to their animation. They make the audience feel and immerse into the character. Since this is horror animation, the audience feel haunted.

    

The last scene showing the human swallowed the human can give big impact where this is the time audience finish their judgment and making conclusion. Although the tree character are not that scary but seeing the human been swallowed is already enough especially for kids where they start to imagine things.

   

Thus, my conclusion is Audience should feel haunted while watching the movie to the extent where they imagine horror things when night appear.

The Aesthetic Education of Man

As I read the letter written by Schiller, it talks about beauty and art in term of aesthetic education.  From what I understand, Schiller research about Beauty and Art with its importance of happiness. This research is very important because without it, the world of art will become damage as this research also shows how much Schiller concern about the importance of Beauty and Art in his life. Schiller's importance in the intellectual history of Germany is by no means confined to his poetry and dramas. He did notable work in history and philosophy, and in the department of esthetics especially, he made significant contributions, modifying and developing in important respects the doctrines of Kant. In the letters on "Esthetic Education," which are here printed, he gives the philosophic basis for his doctrine of art, and indicates clearly and persuasively his view of the place of beauty in human life.

In this blog, through letter by letter from 1^st letter to 5^th letter, I will stated my opinion according to my assignment objective. First of all, the objective of this assignment is to:

1.    Describe the aesthetic issues discuss by author of the article given which in this case its Schiller

2.    Demonstrate individual conception of beauty with reference to particular argument

3.    Analyses and juxtapose the aesthetic argument highlighted in the reading material where as my reading material entitled The Aesthetic Education of Man.

It took me about a week to try to understand but until now the book is still mysterious and cannot be understand so I will just give on my opinion based on what I think over the past week.

Now, in the 1^st letter Schiller talks about research and importance of Beauty and Art also the happiness related to it. To him, freedom is a necessity and the ideas are drawn from his worldwide experience in reading. In his letter also mention about the Kantian system and principles about Beauty and Art. According to Kantian, the characteristic of beautiful is the pleasure it produce is free from any interest as beauty also appears to us as an object of general enjoyment without telling us the consciousness of an abstract idea and reasons to which we might refer as our judgement. To Kantian, beauty ought to embrace itself in the relation of conformity but in such a way, this conformity may be grasped without the idea of being offered to our mind. Beauty also not accompanied by an abstract idea as beauty must be acknowledged as the object of necessary enjoyment. Overall, beauty is abstract concerning those ideas is a practical part of Kantian system. Nature is appointed as a people’s protector combined with the purified world of art, thus produce a spontaneous work contains true moral experience. In 2^nd letter, Schiller talks about Fine Art related to freedom. Schiller insists that freedom must be present to have beauty and justify on his principle to solve the political problem in aesthetic way. As for 3^rd letter, it evolves around the human nature  about politics and law. While  4^th letter talks about morale principles in order to build a morale  country that ensure the real power and freedom where all are connected. Last but not least, the 5^th letter about philosopher versus political artist on how different their view is to beauty and art. Human patterns himself through its action. Philosopher said then when art people break the rules they feel guilty but for high class people they debate because of their ego. Therefore, this letter describe what happen in art world when anti-art exist.

The author of the articles discuss the issues about beauty, art, freedom, time and political world where as these items always connected. Schiller’s major focus is on human civilization. Political artist view beauty and art as an abstract idea. They build the country from ideal individu that subdues empirical individu and bringing pressure to him causing his ideas are not recognize.

From what I read, Schiller's aesthetic education was a flight from the political world. He is guilty of aestheticism because he makes beauty into a motive for moral action and a justification of the state. Schiller is also a fatally divided work because it treats the aesthetic as both a means and end. He Schiller attempts to relax the rigour of Kant's moral principles

and defends natural feelings and instincts as motivations for moral action.

In my individual conception of beauty, beauty is not an abstract but have its own worldwide range meaning depends on how people view it. For example, some people view a dry leaves on the street as a rubbish but for art people they view it a 360 degree differently. They take the dry leaves as an idea for the next project. We can see paintings in the exhibition where all the artist’s artwork most of it comes from our daily life which we usually make it as a small matter. Such as, The Soul Of The Nature Painting by Javier Santamaria which shows the important of nature by only painting his artwork with lines and some colour.

Now for the Schiller philosophical argument stated that :

1)    Reasons demands that we should perfect our humanity.

From this statement, Schiller knows that only a individu with good humanity can blend with art because perfect humanity poses a true morale and right mind in order to value the true meaning of art without destroy its nature.

2)    The perfection of humanity consists in the unity of the form and sense of drives.

Schiller talks about two psychic forces or drives which is :

a) Sensuous Drive: Similar to Nietzscheian Dionysian element.
b) Formal Drive: Similar to Apollonian element
c) Play Drive: Combination of both sensuous and formal drive.

Sensuous drive starts from our physical life and is limited with time and space unlike heavenly world. It is irrational, pleasure seeking, emotional. It is related to desire and necessities of body. We have the association with material world, which is changeable and transitory. Here man is selfish and self- centered since he is dominated by sensation. Formal drive initiated with the reasoning world-from mind. It is guided by reason and intellect. People are bound with high moral sense. It demands timelessness and eternity. It wants to transcend time and space. This drive has no any association with matter.

3)    The unity of the form and sense drive is beauty

Again these two drives (sensuous and formal) demand reconciliation to reach a higher drive “play drive”. It is eternal drive. This drive is not possible in ordinary world because it has the sublime quality. This world is the world of complete freedom in which both emotion and morality are subdued. Play drive can be possible only in art. Receptive faculty is related to sensuous drive and if this faculty is followed completely, one lacks his/ her own identity. Determining faculty however is related to formal drive where the development of self becomes difficult. Determining faculty remains constant and static but receptive faculty is in action. He is interested in determining the nature of art by explaining its value.

Therefore,

4)    Reason demands that we should create beauty

Thorugh this, beauty is very important to our world and its more important on how people view it since beauty is abstract with too wide range.

As the conclusion, beauty and art cannot be seperated in any way because both of them are totally connected. Therefore, both beauty and art should be justify at the same time to avoid incovenient issues arise when giving our own opinion.