cecimonster image diary

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03 Sep

more frames for Peekaboo

Updated renders!

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Filed under: Production Updates, Style Frames, USC MFA, USC THESIS
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30 Aug

returning

while there have been no updates on cecimonster websites, lots of new work has been made! Progress has been steady to developing the look of Peekaboo, ...

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Tags: animated film, mixed media, peekaboo, student film
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10 Apr

test renders!

Progress on my tracks. Two test renders (no rotoscope yet) Here's a basic installation diagram:

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Filed under: CTAN 593, USC MFA
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08 Apr

domesticating the human

check out the audio above to explore human domestication via foxes.

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Filed under: Conceptual Development, USC THESIS, idea factory
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22 Mar

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Tags: 3D/2D integration, tracking
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03 Mar

Advancements at Disney

John Musker's lecture was lively, fascinating, and deeply genuine. His openness to reflect on past work and to discuss the administrative challenges of directing ...

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Filed under: 2010 Seminar Posts, USC MFA
Tags: character design, contemporary popular narrative, disney
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02 Mar

visual development

UVmapping textures in Maya to translate visual style into 3D space. (village layout from 'Arrival' sequence): Original sketches:

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Filed under: Style Frames, Technical Research, USC THESIS
Tags: 2D/3D, drawing, maya, style frame, visual development
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08 Feb

Hydrurga leptonyx

Leopard seals--observing their form and motion for possible segment in thesis. Here are some reference images I'm using to inspire how my seals will move, ...

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Filed under: Technical Research, USC MFA, USC THESIS
Tags: animals, images for design
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08 Feb

motion tracking!

researched new locations to finalize shoot--starting to consider the elements of the comp itself. Tracking footage in Boujou, here are stills: Scouted my final outdoor location, set ...

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Tags: caves, environment, live action, motion tracking, nature
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03 Feb

building creative communities

David Silverman's lecture focused on the evolution of the Simpsons characters over time, and how the gradual refinement of character and design contributed to the ...

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Tags: evolution animation, Hollywood animation, simpsons
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21 Jan

environmentally-aware animations

The experience of watching Raul Garcia's 'El Lince Perdido' last night led me to consider the animated films of my youth that utilized environmental awareness ...

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Tags: critical analysis, environment
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12 Jan

technical inspirations

Madagascar, Carnet de Voyage, Bastien Dubois Integrating drawn techniques into 3D space--creating the observer's eye. The Third & The Seventh from Alex Roman on Vimeo. Compositing Breakdown (T&S) ...

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Filed under: Technical Research, USC THESIS, image/pattern/concepts
Tags: compositing, depth of field, new animation, painting in maya, technique
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29 Dec

feudal hierarchy

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Tags: costume design, feudal, hierarchy, medieval, middle ages
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29 Dec

Robert Breer

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Tags: editing, experimental animation, robert breer, timing
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29 Dec

Suzan Pitt

Visually complex narratives that sink us into a surreal dollhouse vision of reality.

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Tags: experimental animation, female narrative, femininity, feminism, pitt, surreal
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29 Dec

Bossa N O V A

"In terms of harmonic structure, bossa nova has a great deal in common with jazz, in its sophisticated use of seventh and extended chords. The ...

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Filed under: idea factory, image/pattern/concepts
Tags: bossa nova, brazil, desafinado, vinicius
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29 Dec

Dark Passage

One of the most successful attempts of first person narrative with the limitations of the physical handheld camera. Composition and strength of narrative drives the camera.

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Tags: 1st POV, film noir, first person narrative
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01 Dec

human behaviors!

ARD / ZDF CAVEMAN from Santiposper on Vimeo. "An interesting bodily reflection of humans’ shared intentionality is the sclera, or whites, of the eyes. All 200 ...

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Tags: altruism, human behavior, human nature
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24 Nov

spaaaace!

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Tags: patterns, progression, space
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24 Nov

Interstitial updates

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Tags: interstitial sequence, style, test renders
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10 Nov

CTAN555 Update

motion test v1 from Cecilia Fletcher on Vimeo.

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Tags: style frames, test render
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03 Nov

CTAN 555 updates

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Tags: maya, test renders, usc
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14 Oct

Satiemania!

Zdenko Gasparovic (1978)

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Tags: psychadelic, satie, Zdenko Gasparovic
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14 Oct

Tadanori Yokoo

coming back to these has been so refreshing.

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Tags: color, composition, design, japanese, printmaking, psychadelic
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13 Oct

matchboxes

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Tags: color, design, matchbox, screenprinting
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29 Sep

Stephen Frykholm

Taking refuge in flat graphic close ups and an American picnic.... via

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Tags: graphic, midcentury, poster design
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28 Sep

maya technical research

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Tags: lighting, maya, research
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16 Sep

style frames

Style frames for CTAN 555. Dealing with a subjective perspective towards one's home and the history of the "American house" as an economic force in ...

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16 Sep

Mcmansions!

The size of the average American house rose from about 1,500 square feet in 1970 to more than 2,300 square feet in 2001, with a ...

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Tags: American Dream, americana, house, Mcmansions
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08 Sep

Bozetto!

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Tags: animation, architecture, bozetto
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01 Sep

diagramatics

.gallery { margin: auto; } .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 25%; } .gallery img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } Images from this incredible site

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27 Aug

thumbnails!

Thumbnails of the 1st POV project.

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Tags: ideas, key frames, sketches, thumbnails
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24 Aug

555 Project Proposal

SUMMARY The project will be built around the first person perspective of a man searching for a ringing telephone in a house by the sea. His ...

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Tags: concept, project proposal
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24 Aug

wallpaper tests

Wallpaper design tests for 1st Person.

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Tags: design, test, wallpaper
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15 Aug

style references for “1st Person”

The Stain (The corruption of an interior is conveyed with many stylistic techniques) La Joie De Vivre (Loose fluid forms superimposed on rigid industrial spaces) The ...

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Tags: inspriation, Look, style
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15 Aug

First Person POV Films

The Tell-Tale Heart, UPA Lily Allen's "F*ck You" (explicit) Embedding has been disabled--please follow this link to view. Prodigy, Smack my b*tch up (warning--explicit) Hermitage Museum, Russian Ark Osamu Tezuka, ...

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Tags: First Person, POV, Reference
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15 Aug

reference films for editing

Dziga Vertov Man with a Movie Camera (Editing is utilized as a futurist gesture) Jean Vigo's A Propos de Nice (Juxtaposition of shots creates social critique) Maya ...

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Tags: editing, montage
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24 Jul

santiago alvarez

Interested in the formal aspects of the director's editing. Beautiful, experimental depictions of strife. Now!, 1965 79 Primaveras, 1969 Never mind content-watch for the last sequence!

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18 Jul

guess who’s coming to dinner?

One of science's most puzzling mysteries - the disappearance of the Neanderthals - may have been solved. Modern humans ate them, says a leading fossil ...

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09 Jul

la joie de vivre

By Anthony Gross and Hector Hoppin.

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Tags: anthony gross, art deco, futurism, industrialization, stylized motion, surreal landscape
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30 Jun

research on evolution and dreams

Threat Simulation Theory Originally proposed by Finnish neuroscientist Antti Revonsuo, this clever evolutionary theory holds that dreaming serves a biologically adaptive function because it allowed our ...

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Tags: dream, dream logic, evolution, surrealism
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17 Jun

from errol morris

ERROL MORRIS: Why do 40 or 50 years have to go by before a country can even look at its past? ROBERT-JAN VAN PELT: Only the ...

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Tags: artifacts, continuity, Errol Morris, generations, history, perception, photography, vision
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10 Jun

ice age evolution

"While neurological memory is a process of internally representing an experienced reality, over the course of hominid biocultural evolution two new media of representation developed ...

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Tags: anthropolgy, cultural evolution, ice age
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03 Jun

lapiths and centaurs

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Tags: centaur, civilization, civilized savagery, lapith, misunderstandings
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03 Jun

art deco silver

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Tags: art deco, design, diament, silver, table settings
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03 Jun

Lundeberg

Los Angeles surrealist much closer to de Chirico.

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31 May

the human animal

"By the late twentieth century in United States scientific culture, the boundary between human and animal is thoroughly breached. The last beachheads of uniqueness have ...

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Tags: beast, human animal, human nature, individual, savage, technology, theory
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31 May

notes on giambattista vico

"In the course of his reading Vico encountered his first master, the Greek philosopher Plato. A critical spirit quickly intervened, and he turned to Tacitus, ...

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Tags: civilization, cycles, human nature, philosophy, savage, vico
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Author: admin

more frames for Peekaboo

returning

test renders!

domesticating the human

Advancements at Disney

visual development

Hydrurga leptonyx

motion tracking!

building creative communities

environmentally-aware animations

technical inspirations

feudal hierarchy

Robert Breer

Suzan Pitt

Bossa N O V A

Dark Passage

human behaviors!

spaaaace!

Interstitial updates

CTAN555 Update

CTAN 555 updates

Satiemania!

Tadanori Yokoo

matchboxes

Stephen Frykholm

maya technical research

style frames

Mcmansions!

Bozetto!

diagramatics

thumbnails!

555 Project Proposal

wallpaper tests

style references for “1st Person”

First Person POV Films

reference films for editing

santiago alvarez

guess who’s coming to dinner?

la joie de vivre

research on evolution and dreams

from errol morris

ice age evolution

lapiths and centaurs

art deco silver

Lundeberg

the human animal

notes on giambattista vico

Lester Beall

vito acconci interviews…

maya deren

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fun designs

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hockney

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