November 11 Update

November 11 Update

NEWEST RENDER:

OBJECTIVES:

Try new ways of rendering the video - putting the clips in different orders - experiment with sound - try to figure out a lose narrative (even a super abstract one) that people can follow so that there is something to understand!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

MEDIA:

These days I have been visiting the strand to extract them of their resources being the artists books. Through this method of opening and observing books I have found some new artists I am inspired by:

Gilbert and George 

Blachon

Oyvind Fahlstrom

Maurice Sendak

And I didn't realize Brian Eno doesn't only do music but crazy visuals! 

With this whirlwind of book obsession I have chose to read The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus which is so far very interesting and definitely inspiring in terms of my existential thought and dealing with the absurd - life - living - ect.

Other inspiring things: Don Cherry ....Observing life with few screens and influences from socials. 

My state of mind is insane these days - I animated on a vase but I have also made the most terrifying humongous vase that has nothing to do with thesis but as a sort of fried way of analyzing how I feel about life at the moment. All sort of around fetish, intimacy, trauma, stuff like that, my general disgust in everything right now as dramatic as it is. 

 

Struggling with: currently emotions as always but also with my thesis, since all my animations are sequences that are rather short it brings up the question of what? and why? Yes I am exploring but why? Why am I working in this way? I need to analyze the way I work. The peer reviews were very insightful and attached are helpful notes from them.

DIGITAL NOTES:

Remove extra frames in reels

Bigger screen

Ask Mamie to voice her biography 

Fix ending - figure out mediums and aspect ratios 

Unifying factor - sound

Communicate expirence 

different dialogues for the different styles 

Peer Review

 PEER REVIEW 

November 4 Update

 November 4 Update 

This week I continued animating, experimenting more with color and also different pens yet still on newsprint. On Wednesday I came up with a genuis idea to animate on my body like a phenistiskope (?) but around my stomach or back, but now in a wake of clarity I feel that this is sort of unnecessary and I don't necessarily feel the need to do this. I did do a trial test which I've uploaded here. 

ANIMATION:

I only exported the end of the clip because it takes years to export and this is the only thing I have changed.

BODY TEST:

NEXT WEEK:

Well - for next week I want to keep on animating new sequences - currently I'm working on some boils. I will record a call with my father and insert it into the animation. Keep animating - fix sound or edit it who knows - continue to be inspired.

I watched vince Colins animations and felt decently inspired by his fun psychedelic traditional early stuff. I also watched kiriku which is just top dog animation.