David Young Animation - HND Computer Arts - YR 1- Dundee College: Project 2

Project 2: Optical Illusions
The Brief

For project two this semester at Dundee College I was assigned a brand new brief. This is the document I was given:-

PROJECT 2: OPTICAL ILLUSIONS
HND Computer Arts & Design: Animation.

Dundee College has recently moved into their brand new, state of the art, flagship campus at
Gardyne in Dundee. The campus serves 19,000 students and more than 300 staff with cutting
edge facilities and a spacious, contemporary open plan learning environment. To celebrate
Christmas in style they would like to commission you to create an awe inspiring, 3D mapped
projected Christmas art installation within the buildings social nexus atrium space.
This is a seriously quick turnaround project. With only 2 weeks until this project goes live this is an
excellent opportunity for you practise the cool headed, decisive, and creative practise often
required in a commercial setting.
You will be working in small teams of 4 throughout this project. Each team must submit 4 sets of
individual 30 second clips for 3D mapping. It is imperative that you clearly divide tasks across your
team to ensure you make the very best use of the skills and talents available to you.

• Your animation must convey a strong sense of Christmas using abstract shapes, forms,
tone, colour, and movement. There must be no representational aspect to your
animation other than this.
• Your animations must use both surfaces separately and as a whole at some point in the
animation. So you should be submitting 3 separate rendered animation files each.
• Your animation must be designed to be effective once projected in a location with fairly high
ambient light (so highly contrasting forms and tone/ colours should be used at all times).
• All 4 short films submitted by your team must have a clearly consistent visual style.
• Your animation must bring these 2D surfaces to life in 3D.
• Consider using sound or music as the driving force of your movement. As there will be no
sound playback to accompany the projected installation you will not have to be concerned
with copyright issues in this respect.
• KEEP IT SIMPLE! ;0)

Other than this you have creative freedom on this project as far as choosing which 3D tools and
techniques to use. It would be sensible, wherever possible to ensure you are only using tools and
processes that you already have experience with so that you can be confident they will work the
way you expect, and quickly!

Your final animations must be output with the following specifications:
• Resolution: 72 dpi
• Frame Size: T.B.C. (Square pixels)
• Frames Rate: 30 fps
• Aspect Ratio: Square Pixels (1.0)
• Deinterlace: (No Fields -Progressive Image)
• File Format: .mov

All your Premiere Pro project and source files must be submitted on DVD to exact specifications as
instructed by Aaron McCloskey. This will include proper labelling on the DVD with your name,
project title, date, and all the source materials