Digital 11/4

The two final looks for my clock, I ended up going with the second one with the Foxglove flowers instead of the tail. After a lot of dicking around, Im semi happy with the result but its my fault for not planning out my time better.

Screen Arts 10/4

I rediscovered the animations I used to watch about 15years ago before youtube existed. Simple animation style, but catchy loops and funny lyrics are what I enjoyed about this artist. After watching some more of his new stuff, I still enjoy his work as he is quite talented.

http://weebls-stuff.com/

Principles 8/4

More work on the head turn, and recording dialogue for those who are ready. Not ready for vocals yet, but I can do that at home easily enough and bring it in.

Onion skin layers showing the first, last and middle positions for my head turn.

Drawing 2/4

This was a group project with me, Jordyn, and Carel. This was a great experiment using oil sticks to collaborate and blend with colours. I enjoyed layering and smudging the colours for a soft, blended look. I really like how the colours tied in together across the piece as well, and I love how Carel's wings turned out .

Drawing 9/4

Sketching a live model, with ranging time limits from 10min all the way down to 1min. I found it quite a good exercise, in regards to making marks quickly to create the image. Even better, I dont hate the results lol. I can definitely see a difference from last year anyway.

Screen Arts 9/4

Destino

Jan 14, 1946, Salvador Dali and Disney paired up to make the animated film Destino. 8 months of work had produced only 17 seconds of animation so production was halted. Disneys nephew revived the project in 1999 when he was working on Fantasia 2000. Dreams of Dali is a 360 video based on his painting Archaeological Reminiscence of Millet's Angelus(1935). It was made for the Salvador Dali Museum in Florida, USA. Watching it in class, wow!  It will be interesting to watch it again at home and see how it changes for me.

Monty Python's Flying Circus(Terry Gilliam)

Monty Python ran from 1969-1974, know for its surrealist comic style sketches. He used the "table top/cut out animations" technique which combined images cut out from paper and collaged. Cutouts have a limitation when it comes to smooth movements, but works well for violence due to the short sharp movements. Love love love Monty Python particularly the quest for the Holy Grail and And Now For Something Completely Different.

Walerian Borowcyzk

Polish filmmaker and animator.Features minimal scratchy drawings, animated photo's and deconstructed live action.. Provided inspiration for Terry Gilliam.

Fantastic Planet(1973)
Directed by Rene Laloux. Rene taught at a psych ward in the 1950's and used shadow puppetry and film. This led to him collaborating with Roland Tapor on 3 films.
“On a faraway planet where blue giants rule, oppressed humanoids rebel against their machine-like leaders.”

Jan Svankmajer

Czech surrealist filmmaker. He was denounced by a Czech film critic for his move Leonardos Diary in 1974. He had waves of censorship and was banned from making films as one stage. Created the Dimensions of Dialogue, two clay figures that merge into each other, first showing love and sex, which turns into violence. I have seen this vid before due to it going viral on facebook.

In Lunch(Food 1992) the story was two diners at a table that end up eating everything they are wearing and the table + chairs. To me it appears to be a commentary on the gap between the rich and poor societies.

Jans the Jabberwocky was weird, the animation style evokes a similar reaction to the surrealist filmmakers last work in that I found it hard to get into and enjoy. 

Screen Arts 9/4

Last night I watched Baywatch(2017) with The Rock and Zac Efron. Going into it I ws expecting a full n action movie, but instead was pleasantly surprised with a action/comedy. Using humour was a great way to show the redemption arc that was the overlying theme. 8/10 I really enjoyed this movie and found myself stopping what I was doing on my other monitor to just sit and watch as it drew me in.