DeSelby - Gold Handin

This is the gold hand in for my 2nd year film DeSelby.
I'm reasonably happy with the over all look but the animation in it really lets it down.
I really belive in this little film and I intend to keep workin on it in my own time.
The Inspiration:
Concept Sentence:


Lonely elderly man near the end of his life. His final invention shows him a part of past that he was happiest in his life but he missed because he was always working on his inventions.

He sees his one wife and only true love. He then gets closer on his love lost life.


I got the idea for this film from Flann O'Brien's masterpiece "The Third Policeman".
De Selby is the name of a fictitious Irish philosopher and scientist that appears in the book. De Selby does not actually appear in the plot of the novel, but only in references and frequent footnotes, where his unorthodox theories and areas of research are, however tenuously, linked to the plot. (In one footnote, he attempts to dilute water; in another, he posits that night is caused by the accumulation of "black air".) De Selby is heavily referenced in footnotes in this book, the longest of which takes up the bottom halves of eight pages and ends on a completely different note from the one on which it began.

One of his less famous theories is one where he states that:
"The Third Policeman" Flann O'Brien
(pp. 66-69)

"If a man stands before a mirror and sees in it his reflection, what he sees is not a true reproduction of himself but a picture of himself when he was a younger man. De Selby's explanation of this phenomenon is quite simple. Light, as he points out truly enough, has an ascertained and finite rate of travel. Hence before the reflection of any object in a mirror can be said to be accomplished, it is necessary that rays of light should first strike the object and subsequently impinge on the glass, to be thrown back again to the object - to the eyes of a man, for instance. There is therefore an appreciable and calculable interval of time between the throwing by a man of a glance at his own face in a mirror and the registration of the reflected image in his eye.

So far, one may say, so good. Whether this idea is right or wrong, the amount of time involved is so negligible that few reasonable people would argue the point. But de Selby, ever loath to leave well enough alone, insists on reflecting the first reflection in a further mirror and professing to detect minute changes in this second image. Ultimately he constructed the familiar arrangement of parallel mirrors, each reflecting diminishing images of an interposed object indefinitely. The interposed object in this case was de Selby's own face and this he claims to have studied backwards through an infinity of reflections by means of "a powerful glass". What he states to have seen through this glass is astonishing. He claims to have noticed a growing youthfulness in the reflections of his face according as they receded, the most distant of them - too tiny to be visible to the naked eye - being the face of a beardless boy of twelve, and, to use his own words, "a countenance of singular beauty and nobility". He did not succeed in pursuing the matter back to the cradle "owing to the curvature of the earth and the limitations of the telescope."


I was very taken with this idea and it is the main inspiration for the film.
I'm also very taken with the feeling of loss we often have in our lives and I thought this would blend well with the theme as he goes back in time to see his long lost love to see her one more time as he has always regretted not spending the time he had with her but instead spent all his life on his inventions missing all the beauty in the world.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• DeSleby
• Animation
• 3d

[grangerblog]

That's a great tribute to De Selby.

[Caoimhin7OHeochaidh]

I read Flann O'Brien, and this is exceptionnal. Well done!

[ShimmyMarcus]

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