War Animation full screen

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War - The Progresive Self-Destruction of Man

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animation using a tablet to draw in photoshop. I used a william kentridge style approach and drew each movement individually.

I ended up with 565 individual frames in about 30 hours of work.

more progress of animation

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still not done- this is about half way.

 

about 300 frames total at this point 

Independent project - progress

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So this where I am so far in my animation. About. . . a quarter of the way done. Again, my animation is about war, sort of a brief history of man vs. man. (or monkey, same thing)

Its only about 20 seconds. 

Artist research: William Kentridge

William Kentridge is best known for his unique animations. Kentridge uses only one sheet of paper to draw on to create his animation. He simply draws, takes a picture, erases, draws some more, takes another picture, and so on.

Kentridge was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1955. Much of his artwork has to do with politics or suffering. He is by far the best known South African artist, with much popular demand for his work. In 1976, he earned a B.A. in politics and African studies from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. Today he still works from Johannesburg creating more animations which are now more personal and almost autobiographical. He created two characters, Soho Eckstein and Felix Teitlebaum, to better portray the political and social struggle of many South Africans of the time.

I chose William Kentridge because I am using a process very similar to his. For my independent project, I am using photoshop to create an animation, all using one piece of paper. Only, I am using a computer screen, not paper. But I am also drawing, saving, erasing, and drawing some more to create my animation. It is a very tidius yet relaxing process and I am enjoying it so far.

Pics from Assignment 8

Assignment 8

Hokay, so for this assignment, I did a bunch of performance art things. I originally chose to do the time loop experiment by having many different people ask a mall personell for directions to the same store every five minutes; However, it was a lot harder than I thought to get people to do it, and time was running out. So I changed my plan to: just me, asking the same person for different store locations every five minutes. So I found the guy in his red coat, standing in the same position, and started asking questions.
1: I asked him where Hot Topic was. He had no unordinary reaction, gave me thurough directions, and was helpful.

2:(another security person had joined him) I asked him where Libby Lu was. He recognized me, gave thurough directions again, and asked " Anything else I can help you with?"

3: I asked him where Best Buy was. He grinned when he saw me approach, gave directions again, also saying "Its right where you just were" and then said again: "Anything ELSE I can help you with?" again I replied no and as I left, he explained to the woman: " He asked me where Best Buy was, Hot Topic, and Libby Lu!"

As I was making my way around to ask him another question, he and the other woman walked away. So I decided to follow some people.

I followed an odd couple. Well, the guy was odd. He was wearing a womans shirt from H&M.
First, they went to Macy's. When they were in there, they stopped to look at:
Girls clothes(ages 2-6)
Boys clothes (ages 2-6)
and on the way out they looked at some wierd jackets.

They then went to the parking lot, got in thier red car and left.

So I then decided to look for the guy I was harrasing earlier, to ask him some more questions because I wasnt satisfied yet.
So I headed to the food court and there he was. So I asked him another question.

4: I asked him where Starbucks was. I'm not sure if he recognised me, he gave me a very blunt and quick answer. He did not seem amused anymore.
So before I could ask him again, he walked away. So I followed him and he ended up leaving in an employee exit.

So one more thing that I did was find a random person talking on their phone and pretend to talk on my phone right next to them. I would then repeat and paraphrase everything they were saying.
I did it to two people and neither of them noticed. One was talking about a movie and how they were getting home. The other was talking to her boyfriend, so that was amusing.

Overall, I think I got some good reactions, and learned some things about random people. good times.