So I am looking now into collecting primary research. I have made an account on ArtStation website where there are loads of artists around the world I can access and message. I have favourited my favourite audio drive animation work. I have also messaged them individually to ask if they were interest answer a few simple questions. I constructed a simple questionnaire to get the ball rolling. I think from this I can then fashion up a second questionnaire once I am a bit more assertive of where I will be taking my Thesis paper.
Audio Driven Animation Questionnaire 1
This is the first questionnaire of my thesis research. I am looking for some perspectives and ideas while I research further into the topic. Once I have formulated my work more I will have more questions to send you later on this month. Thank you for taking part.
Name :
Date :
Job Title/Position (optional):
- What is your position and role in the VFX/3D computer animation industry?
- Where about are you based?
- In film, what is the driving force of an amazing story? What techniques/directional decisions are the most effective to creating a master piece? (Use examples to illustrate your point if needed)
- In your creative process, how does audio plays its role?
- How do you go about choosing your audio music when accompanying your animation?
- What is audio driven animation mean to you?
- Can you give me an example of audio driven animation that has been powerful and/or influential to your experience as an artist?
- When creating audio driven work, how do you achieve this?
- Why is audio driven animation important and/or interesting to you as a designer and as a viewer?
I have been fortunate enough to have 3 responses and one artist has already completed the questionnaire. I think that I need to broaden my target population so that I get more responses but from all kinds of people from different areas of animation, music, artists and non creative roles as all of these opinions are valid.
My next plan of action is to ask more artists and animators on ArtStation and also to set up a monkey survey and just see what comes back. I have been emailing animators who made the Walt Disney Fantasia 2000 but haven’t had a response as I assume, they are very busy…
The tutors on this course are extremely valuable, so once I get a bit more of an idea I will pick their brain as I am sure they have a lot to say on this topic.