Low Res Presentation (10/12/2022)

Today we had to present our low res prototype and I was honestly disappointed that I didn’t have enough content to show off to the class. However, this week I did stumble across a song that I really liked (“Goodbye To A World” by Porter Robinson) and wanted to use for my animation but my professor said I will need to find a way to get permission to use the song so that I don’t undergo any issues for copyright or find a song underneath a free domain for use. It’s a shame because I really thought the song fit with the concepts of my animation and found so many fan-made animations/animatics that inspired me.

The video below in particular really impressed me and was also made by someone working on a film/animation project. I also watched the creator’s (Nekonbini) process video of making the storyboards to the animatic to the final animation. I really liked how he made cuts to the original song and pieced them together seamlessly to fit with the story of his animation. I was thinking of taking a similar approach (possibly making the song as long as up to a minute) but after hearing that I needed to get the rights to the song, I might have to scratch all of that…

I could try to contact the person who animated the video below to see how he managed to get the rights to the song without getting his video taken down for copyright. I’m going to see if I can contact him through his socials tonight and see if he responds.