Liwei Xia

Abstract

"Dream"is a graduate thesis 3D animation, telling a surrealistic story about a man who tries to escape from a sand ocean and pursue his dream oasis. In this 3 minute 47 second story, the main character shows people, the way to pursue his dream, how to control his desires, resist temptation, conquer himself, drift with the tide, and finally persist in his dream to get away from the ocean. Because the story is surrealistic, I would like to try to approach many new fields in this animation. First, I conceived it as a combination of experimental and traditional 3D animation, creating a thought-provoking effect. Second, I still kept focusing on the animation itself, which means the most important part was about the action or movement. At the same time, I would add some 2D animation into it, to create necessary particle effects, and convey to the audience the surrealistic and dreamlike feeling. This report outlines the whole production process, from the very beginning of an idea development stage until the final completion stage, and illustrate all my inventions, obstacles, tests, failures and successes, as well as technical specifics.

Library of Congress Subject Headings

Computer animation--Themes, motives; Computer animation--Technique; Animated films--Themes, motives; Animation (Cinematography); Short films--Themes, motives; Dreams in art; Surrealism

Publication Date

2-1-2012

Document Type

Thesis

Department, Program, or Center

School of Film and Animation (CIAS)

Advisor

Reisch, Mark

Advisor/Committee Member

Maxwell, Stephanie

Comments

Note: imported from RIT’s Digital Media Library running on DSpace to RIT Scholar Works. Physical copy available through RIT's The Wallace Library at: TR897.7 .X53 2012

Campus

RIT – Main Campus

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