Final Project Inspirations

Changing tack, an adaptation of a Nursery Rhyme. Combining stop-frame and after effects.













Cuteness in lowbrow art.

Mark Ryden:




Gruesome cartoon violence in a cute context:







Adding violence to traditional animations of fairy tales (stop-frame by Ray Harryhausen)




Cuteness vs. Gore
Stop-frame animation

Final Project Ruminations

I am thinking of doing a short non-narrative piece that explores themes that have cropped up working on the excursion piece with Parrot in the Tank, specifically the creation of different realities, and the disparity and overlap between two simultaneous pieces of moving image. I'm thinking split screen, projections, the viewer interacting with the footage, various surfaces and how they interact with the footage.

Here are some pieces that I have found inspiring:



I want to experiment with projecting onto people, projecting things interacting with their bodies. I want to play with projecting a person's own image onto themselves and what can be achieved with that.


Only the Brave, an ad for Diesel jeans (don't you just love how mysterious advertising can be?) which plays with simultaneity in a tryptich format. Three individual stories, lined up side by side tell a fourth story. How can I play with simultaneous action, perhaps having a person interact with themself (and projection as well).

I'm thinking things traveling through the body, and into other people's bodies, through projected elements that show what's inside. Cutting a person open, by laying an image over them. Picture Frida Kahlo's "Las Dos"



How do people disappear into their environment?


A building in Vienna that is covered in LED's

The Pebbleman

After returning to London, I had my first meeting with Parrot in the Tank members, where we conceived a story for an upcoming "walks" performance at the Untapped Festival at the Arts Depot near Finchley. This will be performed on the 2nd of May, so relatively soon. For this performance I worked on story development, and will be creating an animated flashback sequence, where the main character yearns to return to the sea from whence he came. This animation will be integrated into live footage. I also want to experiment with stop motion using pebbles, as the main character is based on a statue made of pebbles. I would probably use these for titles.

This whole project for me is about collaboration, which is what I've been really looking for after months of relative isolation working on my BBC project. The requirements for this piece are fairly minimal, however the short span between now and the performance means I have a lot of work ahead of me, and I am excited to be working at a much faster pace. After the May 2nd performance we pull out the big guns, and prepare for the 24th of May, which is the Accidental Festival at the Roundhouse Theater. I hope to do some more in camera animations, but also work on projected elements, and how the viewer interacts with all three modes: real world, virtual world, and the projected world. Many, many possibilities!

Initial inspiration for the flashback sequence can be found below:


The Tale of How from Shy the Sun on Vimeo.

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