For the upcoming animation and video project, I wanted to combine aspects from my own personal hobbies and interests to make for an intriguing project. The concept was fairly simple: the normal real-life recordings will mimic people playing a tabletop wargame, rolling dice and moving miniatures across a board, whereas the periodic cuts to animation will show those miniatures fighting one another as if they were real, playing out the outcome dictated by the dice rolls. The general idea here is to mix animation and video together rather than having whole sections of just one or the other, allowing for viewers to properly understand exactly what's going on. Though the animation will doubtlessly be a difficult matter, I can rotoscope the models themselves for references, giving me useful poses and semi-accurate looks that I can then bring wholly into animation.
I hope to use this project as an opportunity to bring my own interests into a visually interesting project using a unique medium, where I can compare and contrast the concept of the tabletop game to the reality of it, and I can also animate things that I actually conceptually understand. Normally, it might be a bit difficult to get this animation down in an ideal manner, but given this will have a lot to do with my personal interests and hobbies, I fully understand just how everything should move, how everything fits together, the weight behind certain objects - and I believe all of that will lend to a wonderful project.
I don't have any good visual references yet but here's my cat again.
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