‘Mix Me Up!’ is a piece of time-based film visualising a range of beliefs and expressions surrounding topics of multicultural issues in today’s society. The piece was created during my Digital Art and Technology bachelors degree with Rupert Frankum.
Dealing with core issues of general multicultural views, religion, sport, education, employment and acceptance, ‘Mix Me Up!’ delivers a message from different cultures aimed to make the viewer produce their own point of view.
Considering diverse religions, communities, ideologies, and conventions related to ethnic origins including how society accepts and treats individuals. Multiculturalism is an ideology advocating that society should consist of, or at least allow and include, distinct cultural groups, with equal status. Multiculturalism has its supporters and critics alike. Its supporters often see it as a self-evident entitlement of cultural groups, as a form of civil rights grounded in equality of cultures.
The video was produced to a high standard, professional and polished – combining 3D graphic design, animation and video, it was a very technical piece. After creating test pieces for both 3D animation and video we discovered that this was not going to be a simple project.
Due to the complexity of the Rubik’s Cube I had to create a 3D file for each turn the cube made. The Rubik’s Cube is effectively made up of 26 mini cubes that move around. At any turn 9 of these cubes had to be moved, this meant I had to group them. However, one cube in one group also belonged in another group. This was very confusing at times and I eventually discovered we would need multiple files. Once again due to the complexity of the cube, it meant the render time for the 3D animation was long. It took roughly 10 minutes to render each 2 second turn and considering there was 60 turns, this took up a lot of time, but remember this was back in 2007 on what was then a £500 Dell PC.