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<\/a>Meet Rochelle from Pixar’s movie “Planes”.<\/p><\/div>\n
Still\u00a0enamored with creating GIFs, I stayed up way too late last night creating this animated movie poster from the movie Planes<\/em> by Pixar<\/a>\u00a0to be released in\u00a0theaters\u00a0August, 2013. (DesignAssignments313<\/a>)<\/p>\n Let me give you a little background on why I chose this particular movie poster. My name is Rochelle, and it’s not a very common name in the United States. \u00a0I met only one other Rochelle growing up, and that was in High School. \u00a0I’ve met maybe 5 others my whole life. So when a Facebook friend posted on my timeline that Pixar would be introducing a new character in their upcoming movie about planes, I was beaming,<\/p>\n \u00a0“I have a cartoon character named after me?” \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n <\/em>Now this assignment would give me the opportunity to create something out of a real movie poster that had my name on it. \u00a0How cool is that? If I liked it, I could see using it in other circumstances around the web. I do like my final product, so you might see it popping up again.<\/p>\n Keeping with this week’s design theme, I studied the poster to understand what is being conveyed in the image. \u00a0Since the movie isn’t even out yet, I read the Pixar synopsis of the movie and more specifically the plane character, Rochelle. (voice of by Julia Louis-Dreyfus)<\/p>\n Excerpt from Pixar site:<\/a><\/p>\n (voice of\u00a0Julia Louis-Dreyfus<\/a>)<\/p>\n Rochelle is a tough racer and the pride of the Great White North. Always confident and capable, she got her start running mail to small towns in Quebec, picking up home remedies for mechanical maladies along the way. She also developed a knack for fast travel that ultimately inspired her to give air racing a try. Rochelle never looked back (this competitive contender doesn\u2019t need to). She is relentlessly pursued by charmer El Chupacabra, but steadfast Rochelle is much too focused on winning the race to return his affections.[20]<\/a><\/sup><\/p><\/blockquote>\n I would also need to keep in mind the file size limitations of a GIF, how many frames I’d be allowed in my photo editing software, and since I didn’t want this project to consume my life for days, the number of frames I’d actually have to create. \u00a0I decided that the important elements of the poster to focus on would be that this is a plane, and then illustrate something about Rochelle’s personality. \u00a0My first overly ambitious thoughts\u00a0were to have her fly on the poster. \u00a0Moderating my initial exuberance with a dose of reality, I admitted to myself the work required to make the plane actually fly in or out of the poster was way too complicated to pull off. \u00a0My rational, although still very creative self, went with animating the propeller props, and giving her a wink. \u00a0I’m not totally at peace with the\u00a0symbolism\u00a0of her winking, since the character synopsis says she is steadfast and much to focused on winning the race to return another plane’s affection, but I’ve seen the blinking effect used in a lot of other GIF projects (Ben’s “The Colorized Zone”<\/a> was a big inspiration), so why not give it a try.<\/p>\n\n
Rochelle<\/h3>\n
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