Month: May 2019

The research for this project was very different for this project, instead of working on the concept I wanted to focus on how I was going to make the animation, because I had no idea. I started by watching videos on youtube and a site called skillshare. Used this to discover how to use after affects, because I originally wanted to use hand drawn frames, later when I discovered this wasn’t the option for me I started researching rotoscoping and I found the lecture capture from last year. This was extremely helpful as it broke down the process into manageable parts. It gave me a way of using I program I know well but giving me new skills.

I also researched different artists to get inspired. I used this to work out how I wanted my animation to look. I was heavily inspired by two artists. Palefroi a duo based in Berlin, which experiment with hand drawn frames and typography which linked with my ideas and my ambition of using typography.

http://palefroi.net/

The other was Rosa Beiroa, discovering her work was the moment where everything clicked. I loved the fluidity in her work, so simplistic, and delicate. But also had accurate movement and shaped, even though line drawings there was something so realistic about it.

This project aims for us to embrace technology and world of digital to create a 20 second animation or an Augmented Reality experience inspired by either our Hand and Eye or Hybrid Forms project while injecting it with the idea of time.

I was originally really daunted about the project because even though I frequently paint and sketch digitally that feels very different from animation. I have considered learning animation before and I just assumed I couldn’t do it, so I never tried. I decided fear was not a helpful emotion and decided to ignore it. Straight away I was inspired and decided to use that emotional positively to quickly create a concept so I could move on to the process as I knew it was going to take a lot of time.

When coming up with a concept and fleshing it out, I starting asking myself questions and jotting it all down. The main question I kept asking myself was what was excited about in the previous projects? Which I struggled with because I wasn’t ecstatic with either of the outcomes. So I went back to the planning process of each project and found one idea from each to put into this new project.

The two ideas I was most excited and passionate about was the use of typography and the symbolisation of moths I used in my monster from Hand and Eye.