LAND by Masanobu Hiraoka
LAND by Masanobu Hiraoka
I have chosen this "Land" by Masanobu Hiraoka animation video mostly because of how much I enjoyed watching it. The first time i viewed it i could not concentrate on the important graphical elements or how well the animation was done; The first thing I did, was enjoy the mixture of the amazing colors moving and transforming into shapes on my screen with the perfect sound going along with these moving colors. The many more times after that i watched it i kept getting impressed on how well everything is made and this is what i will disscuss in this essay.
Masanobu Hiraoka is both an illistrator and animator born in Kyoto, Japan. He created his first animation projects during graduation year at his university. His videos have a great influence on japanese culture and artists like Taiyo-u Matsumoto and Daisuke Igarashi. He doesnt work for any studio but does a lot of comercial work besides his artistic projects, which he creates for fun. The artistic style of "Land" (released September 2013) is very similar to his past projects but its easy to observe how his recent animtions have improved a lot.
I think the concept of this video was just to create a wonderful imaginary world were a boy can walk through it and mess around with the metamorphosis of different objects. Primary and secondary omagery and effects make this cmposition very complex, uncluttered and interesting. Its obvious where the artists wants us to look, he leads our eye to the most important subject the whole time but, everything around it never stops moving. This method keeps the imagery from looking flat because not much depth and dimension is used in the animation.
The mood of this piece is generated from three principal elements: the music, the colors and the shapes. Shapes start flat and are being transformed the whole time, they are even converted into geometrical objects that look as if they had a third dimension. The colors chang through out the video but
I have chosen this "Land" by Masanobu Hiraoka animation video mostly because of how much I enjoyed watching it. The first time i viewed it i could not concentrate on the important graphical elements or how well the animation was done; The first thing I did, was enjoy the mixture of the amazing colors moving and transforming into shapes on my screen with the perfect sound going along with these moving colors. The many more times after that i watched it i kept getting impressed on how well everything is made and this is what i will disscuss in this essay.
Masanobu Hiraoka is both an illistrator and animator born in Kyoto, Japan. He created his first animation projects during graduation year at his university. His videos have a great influence on japanese culture and artists like Taiyo-u Matsumoto and Daisuke Igarashi. He doesnt work for any studio but does a lot of comercial work besides his artistic projects, which he creates for fun. The artistic style of "Land" (released September 2013) is very similar to his past projects but its easy to observe how his recent animtions have improved a lot.
I think the concept of this video was just to create a wonderful imaginary world were a boy can walk through it and mess around with the metamorphosis of different objects. Primary and secondary omagery and effects make this cmposition very complex, uncluttered and interesting. Its obvious where the artists wants us to look, he leads our eye to the most important subject the whole time but, everything around it never stops moving. This method keeps the imagery from looking flat because not much depth and dimension is used in the animation.
The mood of this piece is generated from three principal elements: the music, the colors and the shapes. Shapes start flat and are being transformed the whole time, they are even converted into geometrical objects that look as if they had a third dimension. The colors chang through out the video but