“Jabba Jabba” is an animation that seeks to explore the relationship between humans and both natural and unnatural human movement. It is a short narrative piece that questions the similarities and differences between these two types of movement. The story begins with a doll sitting alone on a shelf, discontent with his existence and his inability to perform human tasks. He tries to be human-like, but falls short because of his rigid build and his minimal joints. While sitting on his shelf, he sees a television show where people are performing a modern style of dancing that is unlike anything he’s seen before. The dancers are called the JabbaWockeeZ, and they combine popping and locking, miming, and break dancing to create their own unique style of dance. When the doll sees these movements, he feels that this is something he will be able to do. After finding that this is so, he is forced to look at which role he is trying to convey, either the human or the more robotic. The piece looks at relationships between humans and technology and humans and movement.
This animation will be a mostly stop-motion piece with various other video and imaging elements added in. The dolls rigid movements will be exaggerated with the stop-motion technique. The piece will be created using iStopMotion, Adobe Photoshop CS3, and Adobe After Effects.
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I like the overall idea of the piece but is referencing something from pop culture the best way to get across the message? What if the doll sees robots from a car assembly line on tv? if you watch their movements it has a definite dance like quality to it, mimicking these movements he discovers that even a robot can dance and he ends up discovering the robot/mime dancing of today.
heres some reference video
http://www.bbcmotiongallery.com/Customer/SearchDetails.aspx?searchText=car+factory&type=Simple&itemId=d864b81d-412f-480a-8af5-6f4c6361708f
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