Tales of Fightoria
Tales of Fightoria from Waël Seaiby on Vimeo.
a.k.a. the rotoscoping project. Group work with the fantabulous Paola Kiwi, Mirella Zeidan and Dany Sfeir. It was fun to say the least.
See? I don't lie
A fast/rough storyboard of what to expect in the final movie.
update: this whole idea got axed.
thou shalt make use of already wasted time
Just a doodle in class.
Fakery-related stuff to be uploaded very soon.
Also, the rotoscoping video. whoopie.
That's what's going on.
In Other News
What started out as a simple re-branding project of a potato chips brand named Crave ended up as a possible teaser poster for a movie named Crave? I made the logo with ink, on watercolor paper because I wanted it to look basic and raw, just like satisfying a crave is a sort of a basic instinct. I was told that it was "too scary, as if it belonged in a horror movie" and that "the e looks like it's going to eat me". Erm, yeah.
I've been busy growing up
It's been a while since my last update. That doesn't mean I haven't been reading stuff though. Or working on things. Other things. I have nailed down what my animation is about. I'm doing a short animation about Orson Welles and his relationship with his daughter, Christopher (yes he named his daughter Christopher, yes she's sane, yes she's married with kids, and yes she writes "BrainQuest", a series of educational games for........children). It's partly based on the autobiography Christopher Welles Feder wrote about her relationship with her infamous father (In My Father's Shadow: A Daughter Remembers Orson Welles ). I say partly because it was impossible to find that book in Lebanon; I'm still trying to laugh that off. What does that have to do with fakery? Well, Orson Welles was an actor/director/magician, all of which are related to faking stuff. Not convincing? Christopher's relationship with her father was a shell of what it was supposed to be, it was...fake. Still not convincing? A movie by itself is fake, because it shows actors faking emotion, on fake sets, with fake props.
In other more visual news, here's what we (Paola, Mirella, Dany and I) came up with for the rotoscoping project we've been working on. Yes it's a fight scene. Yes that's me in red latex. Yes it's awesome.
In other more visual news, here's what we (Paola, Mirella, Dany and I) came up with for the rotoscoping project we've been working on. Yes it's a fight scene. Yes that's me in red latex. Yes it's awesome.
Codex Seraphinianus
A friend of mine introduced me to the Codex Seraphinianus just for the epic-ness of it and I thought that it completely embodied the whole fakery theme.
The Codex Seraphinianus is a book written and illustrated by the Italian artist, architect and industrial designer Luigi Serafini during thirty months, from 1976 to 1978. It is some sort of encyclopedia for an extraterrestrial planet that he created. It features different kinds of creatures, plants and objects, all illustrated and explained in that world's own language which to this day remains indecipherable.
If creating an whole encyclopedia for a made-up planet in an indecipherable language doesn't scream fakery, I don't know what does.
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