19/01/2016 - Research

Week 02

Research

This research is based on websites I have come across in the past and have saved for an occasion such as this. These links will focus on inspiring techniques used by professional artists.

http://www.guystheroad.org/2015/10/blind-painter-uses-texture-of-paint-and.html

This link has paintings done by a blind man, John Bramblitt. Its not the blind aspect that is the inspiration for my project (although it is pretty inspiring to me in general) but the colours used and how they are used along with the visible brushstrokes, which I love in any art. This is the sort of style I have been thinking for my visual style, visible brushstrokes and bold colours.

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/02/seascapes-justyna-kopania/

This link has painting by Justyna Kopania. These are much like the first link in that she uses very bold brushstrokes to create her works. I particularly love how she paints the sky in most of her paintings. She also uses different techniques for different parts of her paintings it seems, she has bold, obvious brushstrokes in the sky and sea but the ships themselves have more finesse to them. 

http://picdit.net/2015/09/12/artist-james-nares/

This is another paint themed inspiration by James Nares. There isn't much to say about these but they relate to me in a more abstract way and I could imagine some of these shapes animating across a scene.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJwpKQMbREw

Above is a video where someone has drawn on celluloid paper and placed animation into reality. This isn't something that I think I would try, but as a method of animation it's genius and as part of my experimental animation theme for this project, I am trying to find all sorts of examples I could try out for this project. This particular video has inspired a thought in me though, an idea for my "narrative" is to have lots of small narratives that are pieced together, I would like to create an almost crazy animation where the story leaves the viewers wondering what they have just watched.

http://twentytwowords.com/amazing-artist-uses-beautiful-everyday-scenes-to-complete-his-sketches

This link clever images done by Shamekh Bluwi. Its hard to explain myself so hopefully you have checked out the link. This idea has sparked a thought of my own, I could use the cut out technique, but in photoshop, so I could have a pattern in the foreground with shapes cutout of it (or even an animated character) and there would be a background that fills in the character.

http://www.tkellner.com/artworks/portfolios/monuments/

This link is just filled with inspirational photos...but edited. I just really like this idea by Thomas Kellner. The technique is not something I would try myself because its already been done, but the shapes of the building is something I would like to play around with because I find them really interesting. 

That's it for this post, By next week, I hope to have moodboards and animations/films up on my blog with some sort of analyses. 

16/01/2016 - Research

Week 01

Research

This post is all about giving context to my project, here I will reference online sources I have used to gain a clearer understanding of the key terms I am basing my project around.

Experimental animation

"Experimental animation is the art of combining two or more illogical paintings or art to create an animated scene. Different kinds of animation paintings are introduced at odd points which are totally irrelevant to each other. So the randomly introduced paintings create a different frame altogether in the animation process. Some animators have used a magnifying glass on paintings and multiple frames are captured to create an animation. " http://webneel.com/different-types-of-animation-styles 

Above is a direct copy of what experimental animation is according to a website. What I gather from this is that experimental animation should be an animation that literally experiments with itself, this could be combining two different methods of animation (like what I will be doing) or even just combining two completely different subject matters into one to experiment how the two play off each other. Experimental animation as I can gather is literally all about experimenting to create something new and wonderful.

Abstract Animation

Abstract animation is considered a sub-genre of experimental animation. Abstract animations are visual/sound experiences that don't rely on a story or even sometimes characters but the relationship of sound and visuals.

http://sensesofcinema.com/2011/feature-articles/cinema-and-abstraction-from-bruno-corra-to-hugo-verlinde/

Avante-Garde

Avante-Garde is more of a movement of innovative design. Avante-Garde is anything considered against normal conventions and pushing the boundaries of any given art form. 

http://www.sharecom.ca/greenberg/kitsch.html

Surrealism

"sought to channel the unconscious as a means to unlock the power of the imagination." http://www.theartstory.org/movement-surrealism.htm

This quote from this website for me really sums up surrealism, I feel that my project will be going down the experimental route in hand with surrealism, I will however use all these terms as a basis for my research for influences and media studies. I have already come across the website for the National Film Board of Canada who have been a big force in experimental cinema with the help of the likes of Norman Mclaren, that I know of the top of my head.

For during the week, I will be looking at many animations and selecting some to dissect to analyze what makes them successful. I suppose I will also be starting my brief by then hopefully.

11/01/2016 - Semester 02

Week 01

Semester 02

Beginning of the end.....of the Computer Arts Practice module.

This is the start of semester 2 for this module. This semester we are tasked with creating our own brief and completing it. For this week though we have to do a project proposal as a first step towards doing our brief.

Below is my "Abstract" from the project proposal.

Abstract

"The aim of this project is to create a 2D experimental animation combining hand drawn physical animations with 2D animations created in Photoshop. There will also be a particular focus on narrative to fit with the obscure style of the finished animation.

 The story will be developed as normal protocol from the beginning of the project but the visual style will be experimented with in the early stages to help establish the overall style of my final piece."

This abstract, and the theme in general, is not final yet, there may still be changes made through lecture guidance.

For this week I will be researching the terms relating to experimental animation (avante-garde, existentialism, post-modernism etc...) and posting descriptions about them along with animations (and art pieces in general if applicable) relevant to experimental animation.