Tuesday, 11 June 2013

Vine Animations

Finally joined Twitter and so now I can upload my Vine animations to Blogger!

(It does take a minute or so to load them all up though)






















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Sunday, 9 June 2013

Original Rorschach Ending

My People Watching animation ends by the figure disintegrating into Rorschach like ink blots before fading away. Initially this was animated using the mono print plates, but it was extremely messy and I had problems cleaning around the ink blots, so it all looked a bit rough and it all ended a bit too quickly. I didn't have enough control to be able to move the ink blots in a way like the oil and ink tests or to even create defined shapes. 

 Here's a video of the original ending, which has since been re-animated and extended using Photoshop:


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Zoom Test

Incredibly quick test of mono print plate and light box animation technique, just to see whether movement is clear enough and if the camera can zoom out well or not.


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Friday, 31 May 2013

Linocut Flipbook


Mixed feelings about this - it was quite a long process and it's sometimes a bit difficult to flip because of the elongated shape. I tried for 3 speeds of walking, but it's not too obvious in so short a time space. Still the actual linocuts came out great - I thought they'd be too small to show any detail and despite not strictly 'moving', they were easy and quite enjoyable to use.

They made nice lino prints by themselves as well. This set came out a bit blurry because there was too much ink, but the colour and line combination still looks good.



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Sunday, 19 May 2013

Oil, Ink, Water and Sand

More experiments with materials:

Colour Inks and Oil

Strangely the longer you leave the inks, even without any interaction, the more they merge into just one, almost black colour. I thought there would be clear separation and bright blocks of colour, but they stayed quite small to begin with. The biggest problem was that I think I added too many different colours, which probably caused the quick merger later on.


Colour Inks Silhouette

Came out a lot darker than I thought it would, although I like how the ink creates layers of sizes and colours - gets a bit of depth in there.


Colour Inks, Oil and Sand

Had to be really tentative with this - made it hard to get any good movement out of the inks, but the colours help to make it more interesting.


Ink and Water

Accidental, but I liked the action of the ink diluting into the water.


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Saturday, 11 May 2013

Mono-paint Experiments

Just trying out some more mono-paint tests, but I'm really liking the results. It seems quite versatile, especially as the printing ink doesn't dry out quickly. Images appear a lot clearer on a light box as well.



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Mono-paint Walks

Initially this was a test to see how well images would show up when drawn on a mono-print plate and placed on a light box, but then it became a test to see if this process could cope with small images as well as big, expressive ones for scenes.

It did quite well:


Really missed working expressively though, which ended up in a bit of a crazy, experimental animation afterwards.

The walking was good, but after trying out loops before I wanted to see if this action could be made convincingly into one. It seems to run quite smoothly.


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