These are some animation experiments on Adobe After Effects. I took some frames from my animation film itself and played around with them in this program to improve on my digital skills. Learning the various functions and features of the program to develop my creativity. I’ve discovered numerous ways I could potentially enhance the effects I want in these GIFs; by adding things like smoke and rain I can make the face seem more animated and energetic. The rain particles add no

The projections looked a lot crazier when they were in motion. The boldness they had were imposed on the building and the surrounding environment. These were a huge step from animating in the studio because I was able to apply all that I'd learnt about outdoor projection from artists like Tony Oursler and Krzysztof Wodiczko and see if any of it would work for me. Obviously most of it wouldn't but that's fine because I was going to bring something new to the table. These are m

Projecting outside was a very different ball game. Just like with my experiments of projecting inside onto objects, I projected onto buildings at night around Falmouth. Inspired by Jenny Holzer and Krzysztof Wodiczko I took to the streets at night to project some old and new animations to see how they interacted with the environment. I wanted to find billboards and advertisements for my characters to react to but instead the best things I could find were religious based thing

All these projections were initially GIFs that I made in the Christmas term. It was material that was already at a good level for me to take to the next level so that I could carry out the things I wanted to do as explained in the previous post. These are my favourite projections from that London trip: Madness on a piano! I felt that boogie woogie music to me has always a genre of madness. Happy madness. The screaming, rattling bouncing of the keys are all the thought and ene

Projecting inside: I took out a little portable projector for the week to play with my animations in a different way, specifically by displaying them onto objects and walls to see the effects. Leaving behind my animating and digital manipulation for the moment, I wanted to play with what I already had using material from the previous term and material from this term. Reminding myself of the work by Tony Oursler and getting re-inspired, I went to London with my projector and d

My animation film is complete!!! After many days of long hours trying to complete this film to the standard I want from the level that I’m at, I’ve finally completed my film. The text that have been inserted here between the scenes all have the purpose of setting the atmosphere of the character. Some are meant to both obviously contradict and parallel this apparently stupid looking character, such as the Oscar Wilde and Marie Curie quotes. To me these particular quotes hold s

I’ve been looking at a couple of silent films and I just want to show the one thing that I took away from this genre of film which is the way that it has been edited to show text in subtitle form right after an obvious piece of interaction between people. I wanted to see ways in which this was done back in the old days. The drama is all visual with the aid of some music in the background to help set the mood. Seeing as I didn’t want to put any sound in with my animation, this