Semiotics

Todays topic was Semiotics, and through watching he presentation i found it quite interesting.

The fact of how something is portayed, and the signs it shows. People view it differently, it interepret the symbols in different ways.
 An example of this is if you see the word MARIO
that could just mean anything, and isnt as iconic or relatable as if i showed this picture..

Pictures say more than just words, theres no language barrier, so the world can recognise a certain thing or character.

Most of what we talked about other than this i found kinda hard to take in, apart from what you can tell from images before knowing about them, and the messages that certain pictures send intensionally or not.
But it was still worth learning about.

Realism Views

So we had a few interesting points raised in this weeks lecture, the topic being realism.

From my perspective, studying 2D animation; there are many comical animations all across the internet and such that ive seen and that i really enjoy, most of which aren't really realistic looking at all, but i think its because of that fact that they can be very funny; with the expressions and movement and so on. If drawn in a very relasitic way, wouldnt have quite the same effect, and your kinda limited with what you can do, everything has to be correct most of the time.Having said that they are exeptions, but generally this is what ive found.
It seems that its a fair bit harder to get the same sort of realistic effect shown in 3D films, in 2D animation.

As in 'Final Fantasy Advent children', this is obvously a 3D CGI film, and with this, and when other films, (2D or 3D) look realistic, theyre often more serious, and 'cool' because of it. If serious 'realsitic' looking animations characters started doing crazy faces and moving in unrealistic ways, that would seem kind of strange, and wouldnt work i dont think. In todays ever growing culture, the characters in games and CG films are often created to be as realistic and the given tech lets them be, as this is appealling in the 21st century, more relateable, and involving i think.

We were shown quite a few imges of how realism is portrayed in different mediums in todays culture, i found it so strange that people actually spend loads of money on lifesize, perfect representations of inanaminte babies, i can undertsand why, sort of, but still, i would of thought that would just be scary apart from anything else, how they dont move and all.
And how some adults get attached to those sex dolls, thats just weird, i dont dont why anyone would be desperate enough to buy one of those, rather then meeting and being with and real person, how is that any way the same? or even similiar?
They'll probably just get more and more advanced as time goes on; in looks and technology, that one day they might not even be recognisable from actual people.

Cant help but think of the awesome film 'Surrogates', how in the future people might be controlling thse beings remotely, being them and and customising them howere they want. Its just a film i know, but still i wonder if this is actaully a possibilty, and how far off are we from witnessing it.


Cant help but think of the awesome film 'Surrogates', how in the future people might be controlling thse beings remotely, being them and and customising them howere they want. Its just a film i know, but still i wonder if this is actaully a possibilty, and how far off are we from witnessing it.