For the final brief for responsive, I chose to do Loopdeloop! I wanted to do at least one animation for this module, therefore I thought loopdeloop would be a great brief to go for because I have not entered it yet and I think it will be a big challenge to get something to loop.
The theme for this months challenge is 'sisters'. When I first saw this theme my heart sank a little bit because I don't have any sisters, in fact I am an only child so I felt like I wouldn't be able to tackle this loop as well as other people because I don't know what it is like to have a sister. However I then started to think that sisters don't have to just be biological, you can have best friends who are like sisters and I have cousins who are like my sisters also, so really i'm not that left out. If anything, this brief will allow me to have to think out side of the box more and take more risks! So I went straight to brainstorming!
Surprisingly, I had LOTS of ideas for this loop. I thought about sisters I have seen being portrayed in animation, television and in real life. I thought about animating twins, a big sister vs a little sister to other aspects. I thought about trying to portray an emotion within the loop, so centring the sisters around rivalry, an act of kindness or even just plain mischief. There were lots of things I could have chosen from once I began to write them down so I feel silly that I thought of choosing another brief because of this. I circled the ones that I wanted to go for more prominently in red. These were the best friend as sisters idea I had, or the big sister vs little sister. I quite like the latter because I think it is more versatile, and sometimes when you make something personal, like I would with the best friend one, people don't always get the point you are trying to make, therefore the second option seems much more open to me.
Since I didn't know much about Loopdeloop other than it is an short animation competition that is monthly, and has screenings across the world, I decided to do some research on it. I know a lot of my peers enter this competition, so that is one of the reasons why I wanted to have a chance as well. But I didn't know how it started or what the purpose of it was. I found out that Loopdeloop was made to give independent animators a chance to come together, to refine an idea and make a short loop, then connect with other animators who have done the same and network with them! Instead of the isolated practice that animation can sometimes be, loopdeloop was made to bring people together, online and offline, through sharing the same passions and ideas!
I then had a look at last months winners from around the world, to see what people were voting for and noticed that actually all of them were digitally made, and 2D. I was going to create something in Maya because I really loved the Character and Narrative module, but seeing as how no one won with a 3D animation, I think I am going to also stick to digital 2D. I am think of using After Effects this time to ease back into animating with 2D but push myself with character rigging and also trying new things. Also, the timings of each loop varied, some were up to twenty seconds and some were as short as four so whatever narrative I choose will dictate the timing, but going from the past winners it doesn't seem like length effected their chances which is quite comforting.
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