This particular sound I was really excited to experiment with because I got to go all out with colour. I think the sound has a romantic and just generally sweet uplifting feel to it, and I thought the best way to do that was through COLOUR. Pinks, reds, and peaches. This was a really good audio clip to try and convey visually and I found was the most fun for me.
I first started off with experimenting with acrylic paint to see if I could try and visualise my sound with this medium. I am not the best with paint however I thought I would just try and mix some colours together to see if I could come up with some sort of aesthetic. I have neon paints that I own and I immediately was drawn to them and I really loved the way they came out.
Although I didn't think these paint pieces would be enough to then go on and animate, I think in themselves they are really nice to look at. I love the pinks and peaches so I think eventually when I go on to animating, this will be the colour palette I end up using, as well as a grey background since the contrast looks nice here. But overall I feel like these colours are successful in representing and enhancing the sound.
I then tried a gradient type of method which turned out alright, but not as effective as when I do gradients digitally, therefore I most likely won't be using this style in my animation but I may take up the idea of gradients.
This next piece is further experimentation on acrylic paint but with a different take on colour. Though I still love the peach/pink combination I thought perhaps I would try a green/turquoise route. I feel like this could give a sci-fi feel to my animation if I were to go with it, which wouldn't match the sound at all, however I do like the pattern of the pink and peach strokes. This is something I have considered further on, and developed digitally.
This is just a quick combination of the colours used but I also think it looks quite nice in itself seeing all the colours placed together like that. If I were to develop this into a final product, I think I would animate it so that the lines would gradually draw themselves and blend in, for example pink and yellow making peach.
This piece I made up through following the rise and fall of the notes in the audio. Since it goes from loud to quiet I thought I could represent this through the thickness of the lines as well as the rise and fall of the lines. I like the concept of this but I think it lacks colour for such a vibrant sound.
This next piece I was experimenting with in Photoshop after scanning the previous piece shown above into it, and I also really like it! It suggests a romanic atmosphere from the colour and I think it could sound like a harp if I animated all the little dots together or made them change colour somehow. However i'm not sure if there is TOO much going on. I don't want to have an overpowering animation for such a delicate sound.
This is further experimentation/development on that piece to try and make it less overwhelming and I think the softer the colour palette is a good improvement. It still feels to me that a lot is going on and i'm not sure how I would go about animating something so complex, but I will definitely be considering it!
Lastly, I tried something out digitally. I drew a wave-esque type of pattern and then coloured it in with the peachy/pink gradients that I really liked from my acrylic painting in the beginning. I really like how it looks 3D due to the shading and depth of the colours, and I also the contrast of the grey background which I took influence also from my first experimentation with this sound. I think eventually I would like to use this as the centre idea for my animation, but before I went straight into it, I experimented further.
I wanted to see how this piece would look if maybe I thickened the surface area of the wave by making it wider. It still looks 3D and has a lot of depth which I like, but i'm not sure if it would be good to animate because it is so wide. I wouldn't be able to do as much with it, as I think using a singular wave would have more versatility.
I then went a little bit crazy and just tried MANY different techniques. I changed the colour, twisted it, cut it up, made it twirl, and I really like the look of this piece. Overall I like the swirl which is hidden in the back but it has given me some idea that I would like to make the wave turn into a swirl and back out again as I think this would also represent to diversity in the audio going from high to low.
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