RSC Animatic

Posted on May 5, 2012 by Adriano Vessichelli

Hi guys,

I know I have been away for quite a while, but here there’s my animatic based on Caliban from The Tempest. Hope you like it

Shakespeare Projetc

Posted on April 15, 2012 by Adriano Vessichelli

Over the Easter holiday we were supposed to develop a short animation inspired by either The Tempest or Twelfth Night.

I chose The Tempest, and while I was reading it a scene grabbed my attention…

(II.ii) What have we here? A man or a fish? Dead or alive?A fish, he smells like a fish: a very ancient fishlike smell: a kind of not-of-the-newest poo-John. A strange fish! Were I in England now – as once I was – and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver: there would this monster make a man: any strange beast there makes a man: when they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian….. (II.ii)

This is the scene in which Trinculo makes his first appearance and discovers Caliban laid down covered by his cloak. At first sight he doesn’t identify what kind of creature Caliban is, but he is immediately able to recognize a source of income. Stephano too wants to bring Caliban to Naples as present for the emperor. What seems most monstrous in these speech is the cruelty of those who profit/capture human bein and those who gape at them.

Therefore the concept of this animation is to open a debate about humanity: what really constitute a human being? Can “wealth” be really the main feature for humanity? Who is the human and who is the beast?

These are the questions I intend to explore, and perhaps to directly address to the audience.

At the moment I still need to find the right action that could describe this issue, but others ideas are coming soon (hopefully).

Transport for London Museum project

Posted on March 13, 2012 by Adriano Vessichelli

People in a theater box - F. E. Jackson 1925

This is the poster my team is been given to create a 30″ footage. It is a great artwork fairly detailed and unexpectedly big. Recreating the Victorian age, character are portrayed in a very polite life moment with soft poses and balanced composition. What I admire the most is natural separation of different areas the artist created with great usage of light and shade. Putting the audience right in the middle of the scene with wide view, the artist was able introduce you within the painting as you were living the moment itself.

Unfortunately the story of the poster itself it’s a very sad one. Basically his was created to light London underground but because of its dark beauty it couldn’t fulfill the duty it was painted for.

At first sight me and my team immediately noticed the great contrast of dark and light which inspired us very much. The mood of the scene seemed apparently very polite but with a hint of darkness, hence the initial idea was to show the moment the characters were in trying to underline this respectable and polite environment.

But what happen when the dark comes up? Do these people have a “dark side” as well?

Questioning ourselves what the characters were doing in their normal life, David did some research about the era bringing up very interesting subjects that due to the tight deadline we couldn’t explore more. On the top of everything one story grasped our attention, a very cruel one… The story of Jack the ripper.

Thanks to the amazing storyboard provided by Mr. Crump

http://crumpwithanimation.myblog.arts.ac.uk/

we started to plan the all sequence, we divided duties and task:

Ryan was up for cutting up the stage, special Fx (smoke effect) and sound Fx.

http://ryanwaikin.myblog.arts.ac.uk/

David was cutting peole and working on Jack scene with the his magic “pin tool”.

Me personally I was in charge of the post-production, playing with lights and FX.

The result is a cut-out effect.