My name is Ian Gouldstone.
I am currently an animation Master's student at
the Royal College of Art in London.
Recently, I finished a film called "Corollary"
based on the atrophy of my previous education in
theoretical math. The film draws heavily on my
interests in direct / cameraless animation.
You can watch the entire film, along with many
others, on my website:
I am really interested in getting feedback on my
work, so please feel free to write me.
I even love criticism. :mad:
A still from "Corollary"
I'd love to view your work, but I am still on a dialup. Will have to wait until the middle of the night and try to download your stuff. 20+ megs is just a lot for me during the daytime.
Will get back to you.
Pat
Pat Hacker, Visit Scooter's World.
Standing O, man. Pat, it's worth it. That was so very cool, and if you have a watchful eye, downright hilarious in a few isolated parts. But for the most part it's just compulsive viewing.
I'll be coming back once the excitement washes off to see if I can say anything useful =)
Hooray for broadband, and may I never take it for granted...
I am definitely going to download it tonight. Scattered, don't ever take broadband for granted, those of us out in the hinterland are years away from it.
Pat Hacker, Visit Scooter's World.
As for the music video, I really like the timing and the visualizations themselves on how you chose to represent the words being sung.... Exemplary work for a week's time, very Flying Circus if you will...
=I don't get the cat....felicity? Innocence?
=The neon "she's so wonderful" doesn't come across as neon until the leg and lights come on.
=After the neon, the rings of sound in the upper-left pounding out the melody is great, but retracting as the melody does on the same notes it just rang out is even greater...
=Another nice finish
I have to start bookmarking cool animation that I come across... I also like the motif of the site itself, especially since when you go into the Flash movies you even added and changed the components to look like the whole presentation is one solid unit...
Now that I've seen both I wanna see the next two but I don't have RealPlayer...
Really cool film, Ian. I've got no criticisms
Don't pretend to understand your math, but it was compelling. The only suggestion I could make is why not put up a Flash version for those of us on dialup, it would have been much smaller.
Pat
Pat Hacker, Visit Scooter's World.
It would be smaller, but by how much? Parts of that had lots of detail... I do know what's in your head though, to some extent, with the cutout style in most of it...
First off, I would just like to say thank you
for having a look and telling me what you
think.
In answer to Pat's comments, I would like to
say that I tried my best to compress this as
best as I could without losing what I consider
to be the most important parts of the visuals.
The process of this film was to find animation
in things rather than contrive it. It's meant to
model our pursuit of mathematics; math exists
everywhere, and those who study it really have
to find it rather than create it.
With that in mind, I created a film that had a
great deal of detailed motion in the backgrounds
and the textures but a very naive form in terms
of the foreground narrative visuals (hence, the
cut out motion of many of the foreground elements).
I suppose this all comes from my infatuation with
the juxtaposition of 'wild' direct animation
techniques with very precise computer tweens.
So in my mind, if I had compressed it, I would
have lost much of the detail in the background
and thus the real point of the film.
Anyways, I *wish* that I could make it smaller
for those on dial-up, but for now will just have
to leave it as it is.
Once again, thanks for all of your comments and
e-mails.
And for those of you on dial-up who cannot
download such an enormous file but are very keen
on seeing the film, give me a shout by private
message and I can perhaps work out a way to
furnish you with a dvd or cd through the post.
Thanks!
Ian