The theme of water can be applied to anything and everything. Water is an essential part of human's survival.
Without water, there is no life.
For this project, our group decided to highlight the importance of water and how it can be viewed as a resource diversified in our world. For the visuals of this project our group decided to also learn about rotoscoping and apply that technique to our animation.
Rotoscoping is an animating technique where, “animators trace over live action film movement on each frame to use in an animated film.” Although this process was very tedious and time-consuming, we were able to learn this new technique and work with this style to produce this final project.
Our group found a video online that we thought portrayed the concept of what we wanted to address both simply and clearly. The video we used as a reference guide for our animation is titled, “Rich vs Poor.” By rotoscoping over certain sections of the video we were able to ultimately create a new film sequence.
As Organic Facts states, "Water is an essential component of our body and plays a vital role in maintaining the pH balance of the body, metabolic processes, delivering useful products and clearing waste products, while functioning essentially in nearly all major organ systems of the body." Water is a key component when it comes to the well being of a human being. If a body is constantly hydrated with impure water, this will heavily impact the overall health of the consumer.
Here are a few examples of impure waterborne illnesses:
"Water related diseases cause 3.4 million deaths each year."
The following maps show the improvements of water quality around the world from 2008-2015:
While access to clean water around the world has improved over time, there are still many ways in which we can help to enhance the quality of water further for everyone, everywhere.
With hundreds upon hundreds of organizations striving to bring clean and safe water to everyone around the world, it only takes one click of a button to start supporting a good cause.