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16 April 2003

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Computer animation has grown rapidly in the media industry since the last 30 years. With its evolvement, its art has reared prominent in the entertainment lives of people. With the different artistic expressions, people’s flights of imagination are enriched. With the evolvement of the Internet in our everyday lives, we witness story-telling emerging in the form of an e-book.

 

My passion in narrative writing was momentarily put on hold when I furthered my education and resigned to a simple life of an average and typical salary-earner for the purpose of survival.

 

However, with this undying passion in creative writing and creative expression through the arts, I dream of coupling computer animation and special effects with narrative writing. With the current movement of e-books, I believe more could be contributed to this pursuit and advancement.

 

I visualize a “moving” storybook that brings the reader closer to the “reality” of the story with graphics, animation and music. In contrast, it is different from being present in a movie theatre where graphics totally depict the story to you because the e-book only reveals “bits and pieces” of the story (in pictures) to you and leaves the rest to your imagination. Like the expression of a man who found women who reveal a little bit of flesh, yet cover herself partially, to appear sexy and alluring; similarly, this characteristic of the e-book that exudes this alluringly “sexy” temptation to get involved with the characters of the plot. I picture the e-book provoking the reader’s imagination and opening a gift-box withholding senses (within its lid and a ribbon tied around it) that everyone of us have within our creative mind. Untie the ribbon and a whole new world (experience) is revealed…

 

Today, colorful presentations of stories in the e-books have a bright future tomorrow. What is its character? I sincerely believe that it can be brought to greater heights with the advancement of technology today and tomorrow. How did computer animation develop to the present application in the movies we are entertained by today?

 

What is the future of computer animation? Where is its place in the expression of arts (movies, books, internet, etc.)? Besides arts, news@ www.***.com are also brought to readers in the form of moving pictures and sounds already. E-mail programs already come packaged with animation and sound to help us express ourselves “fully” to the love one we are communicating to who might be separated from us by an ocean.

 

I believe that such books could also be developed as part of assistive technology for people with disabilities. The reader can control the pace of the unfolding story. For a hyperactive child, an animated book might appear more inviting and could gradually motivate him (or her) to learn. Besides catering to the “textbook” aspect of a child’s life, similarly, entertainment forms a key integral portion of the child’s life.

Children can learn from “moving” e-books, enriching in history and information and knowledge in a “moving” e-book depicting our lives and interests. There are limitless avenues of exploration we can invest in this field.

There are limitless avenues of exploration we can invest in this field as a way of returning to society our own blessings.

 

In the advent of film-making, we choreograph sound, lighting, background, props, color and more to express and narrate. In an e-book, the author choreographs animation, graphics and music to serve this similar artistic expression. The intricate complexities of choreography of pictorial visualization and audio behind an already veiled story behind carefully chosen words to cultivate/acculturate the reader’s flight of imagination. All the work taken in telling a story makes it worth being read and enjoyed.

 

There could be a premium membership for such reading pleasures online at the comforts of one’s home (probably idly on the sofa). With the availability of CD-Rom access, these “books” could be burned into a CD and sold.

 

A ride

 

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Animation so real that it blurs reality with computer-generated “life”. In that moment while the viewer’s attention was captured within the cinema, fantasy became reality. When every viewer left the cinema, the realistic impression left on them has a lasting effect and sweet after-taste that makes them “beg” for more gravitating pleasures (entertainment).

 

I feel a good example of animation that blurred between the boundaries of reality and fantasy is a particular scene from Daredevil. The scene was filmed in the rain at the rooftop. Ben Affleck’s character <Matthew Murdock> was using his radar sense to visualize Jennifer Garner’s character <Elektra> appearance.

 

The impression of Elektra’s face as visualized by Mathew Murdock (using his radar sense) under the rain at the rooftop is deeply engrained into my mind. Picturesque and enormous resemblance to reality was the work of her face and every single feature. It was wonderfully and “fearfully” made as if God was working through the artiste’s hands. The curvatures of her face, facial color, light reflection and movement was attended to in minuscule detail possible.

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