Megan Falkingham

Using the timeline in Photoshop, I create this gif. The aim of this was to work with frames and time, you could create an advertisement banner in this style using the same techniques.
I found this process very easy and it took no longer than 5 minutes, if I were to put more time into the gif I could create something much better.

I created a rotoscope of a video from youtube of a man dancing, frame by frame I drew over the figure in a simple stick- man style to show his movements. Half way through the process I realised there was a technique you could use to make the lines neater, and so you can see the difference in the figure. I found this process quite difficult as it was time-consuming and tedious.

I created a stop-motion animation using Photoshop. I used the timeline to create frames and drew a different movement on each one. I decided to create an animation of a ladybird flying and being squashed.
                      
Ladybird Animation from Megan Falkingham on Vimeo.

Tim Burton is a film director, producer, artist, writer, and animator. He has created some of my favorite stop-motion animation films; such as Corpse Bride, The Nightmare before Christmas, Frankenweenie, and more. His film style are usually very dark and Gothic, this effect is really interesting to me as it is unique in a children's film.
In my future I hope to have an ability to create successful and creative animations like Tim Burton's. Even his online art gallery is laid out like a strange game,
Tim Burton is my favourite animator by far and he inspires me to become an animator myself.

Platos cave, also referred to as the Allegory of the Cave, was featured in Plato's book 'The Republic'. In the story, there are some prisoners tied up in a cave with their heads chained so that they can only see the wall in front of them, behind them is a fire and in front of the fire is a walkway, people pass on the walkway with objects. All the prisoners can see are the shadows of the objects, most are distorted, the prisoners only know this life to be true and believe the objects to be the shadows they see. One prisoner is released and see's the reality of life outside the cave, he returns to tell the others but they do not believe him, as their reality is all they know so why would it be any different.

 

This is a good example to use in real life, we only see what we believe to be true, whether it be religion or just everyday life, our own reality could be hidden from us, but if we found out about it, would we carry on as we are?

'The truman show' could also be an example of the hidden reality.
In Peter Weir’s 1998 film The Truman Show, Truman Burbank, (Jim Carey), slowly discovers that his entire life has been fabricated in service of a reality television program. Truman has spent his life in the peaceful idyllic town of Seahaven, until now blissfully unaware that the town exists inside of a giant TV studio, and that he is the main character of a 24-hour reality television show called “The Truman Show”. The entire film is created as though it is a real thing, the opening credits do not feature the real names of the actors, but their names in the film and their character in the tv show (Truman Burbank- as himself).

The uncanny basically means 'the opposite of what is familiar', it is a mixture of the familiar and unfamiliar that we see as being peculiar.