Final animation

For my final animation I wanted it to be more abstract. I wanted the viewer to focus more on the layering and the buildup of information on the screen.
I used these photos of the cardboard stucture I'd made on the first week of the rotation.

I was really pleased with this try because I felt I had got the hang of animation a bit more and I was confident in being more adventurous. I wanted to inject elements of the type of areas I'm interested in (like architecture, 3D design and installation) so I tried to incorporate the sense of construction and structures. I've been considering adding sound aswell, I thought the sound of folding and ripping paper or maybe sounds from a building site, hammering, sawing and drilling)

Also, halfway through the film the triangles which I kept on re-introducing started to feel like characters- maybe pac man or little shoals of fish- so at the end I thought I would add a bit of narrative. I'm not sure if this works though, because it feels a bit out of sync with the rest of the film.

Developing animation

I started to really get into animation in the second week of the fine art rotation. I really liked looking at William Kentridge's video's on youtube. It showed me how there are different styles of animation that I had never explored before. I wanted to try out some more animation in Kentridge's style, but the idea of doing something so intricate was very different from my usual style. I normally enjoy sketching quickly because I like drawings to be dynamic and full of energy and I feel that if I spend too long on one sketch it starts to look quite static.
I also wanted to incorporate tracing paper in my animations in some way. On the study day I had done some sketches on tracing paper that I layered up to make a complete 'scene' and I really liked the effect- the layering had left traces of beginning sketches.

That was part one of my first attempt, here is the second bit.

I was quite happy with these first attempts, but I thought it was a bit too long and the sketches were a bit figurative. The tutors helped me think to develop these ideas and suggested incorporating some of the photos I had taken earlier in the week.

I later edited this second attempt by putting garden sounds like birds tweeting and then everyday sounds like buses over the top. I liked it but it was also slightly distracting.

Thursday week 5: Fine art animation

I really enjoyed expermenting with animation and I really didn't expect to try it out during fine art.

Here is my first experiment, which I did by taking pictures of each of my acetate drawings while my camera was on a makeshift tripod i.e. a box. 

Week 5: First part of Fine Art

At the start of this rotation I had some reservations. After exploring 3D/spatial then fashion/textiles for a month I had got into a more design mindset- I was enjoying exploring the connections between form and function and generating quick ideas that come into play in everyday life eg. what we wear, use, store things in or sit on. In sixth from I did do fine art, but it was balanced with elements of structural design. We started with a day of painting and drawing around big multimedia sculptures in different parts of the studio. In the morning I felt slightly frustrated because it felt a bit limiting not being able to use a range of different mediums. However in the afternoon I felt like I was getting to grips with the tasks being set.
I started to use, ink, wax, pen and charcoal in my studies. (Also I'm pretty sure the water pot I used to mix my brushes in had oil or petrol in it- all my inks were changing colours and i was scared it would burn through the paper.

The next day was our study day where we were asked to do loads of different things. First we were told to go out and observe the 'carnival of the streets'. This isn't an actual carnival, we were just meant to sketch and take pictures at a busy junction in our area and record the procession of people and things that passed by us. I went up to Muswell Hill and sat on a bench outside the Odean (I chose muswell hill instead of Crouch End, which is closer to me, because I thought I would get less people giving me shifty looks and asking what I was doing.) I found it really hard to sketch things that passed by, especially cars and buses, but I was quite pleased with the end results which involved alot of tracing paper and photocopies (I'll try to put a pic up at some point).

We then had to go to a more natural place so I walked along to Alexandra Palace and did some drawings and took photos.

There's this guy in my area who paints on bits of chewing gum that have been squashed on the pavement.
I think if you pay him he personalizes your own piece of old gum. Its quite funny to walk around and spot all these bright mini paintings.

Photos

Issey Miyake

Development of my work



Fashion and Textiles

The fashion and textiles rotation was based around the idea of compress and expand. I really enjoyed these two weeks and they changed my perceptions of what studying fashion would be like. I felt the project had lots in common with the 3D and spatial design unit- it was alot more abstract and we could be really experimental with our ideas. I also really liked the way we were led from 2D into 3D. In everybody's work it seemed like there was a clear progression of ideas- shapes were picked out of earlier drawings and played about with.

While we were developing our ideas Michelle told us to think about works like, slice, displace, deface, fold and repeat. I thought initially that I would concentrate more on the textiles side of the project because I enjoy thinking about texture and repetition, but by the 2nd week i found myself thinking about different ways to fit my pieces around the body. My mum showed me some work by Issey Miyake and I liked the way his designs are very geometric, but still fit the curves of the body- alot felt quite fluid.

(i tried to put a picture up of one of Miyake's designs, but it failed)

Looking through my work, I saw alot of examples of things like pinching and folding so I decide to develop this using geometric, pointed shapes.

But I wanted the pieces to hang well on the body so I bent and twisted them to give them an organic feel.

I was really pleased with my outcomes from these two weeks, but if I had more time I would have enlarged the scale and probably used more intesting materials and fabrics.

(I'll try to upload some pics later, my computers getting angry at the moment)