Animations I've made so far.

This week at college (3rd from last) I've been producing digital animations relating to our human condition project. The animators that Greg showed us; Robert Breer and Jeff Sher  reminded me of the great ability that animation has to embed information- motion, emotion and subconscious information through the dimension of time.

This first animation I tried to use different brush sizes, colours and opacity to bring a sprinkle of the zest that entirely makes up Jeff Sher's films. This split head seems to have slightly become the symbol of my project to me.

After starting an animation I eventually scrapped, I decided to zoom in and focus on my ear. Disembodied features are somewhat surrealist and I realised a squiggly ear floating in white space is rather abstract. I then tried adding the hair to provide a different kind of animation. Rather than tracing an image like the ear, the hair is a solid movement kind of animation.

 These animations are rotoscoped from a film I took of myself. It was made using photoshop with a layer for the background, a layer for each video frame, layers for the lines and layers for the yellow face. Lots of layers. Our lesson with Greg this day (yesterday) was all about colour relationships and mixing paints. I decided that I needed to try to incorporate and utilise colour to add to m work. Too often I default to Red, Green, Blue, black, white. This has been stretching me in multiple ways.

In the next two weeks I plan on producing more animations. Possibly longer and pushing these techniques I've been trying out. I have a hand drawn animation of the split head rotating in 3D space in my mind.