Work Experience Log: VFestival 2013

It has been a long and hot summer and I am finally done with the work placement at Butch Auntie. Having worked with the studio before on three other projects that taught me so much about projection mapping and animation, the last project for Virgin Media's VFestival was no different.

We started out with briefs involving animal collages and surreal images with bright and bold colours that were extremely evocative.
There was neon signage and eyeballs in light bulbs but finally, what got approved were the images of flowers exploding in a city and their variants.

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 Working on this animation gave me a lot of freedom to experiment with Adobe After Effects and I learned some cool new tricks that I didn't know of before.

This time spent working with Butch Auntie also got me inspired for the upcoming projects for my third year at university and I hope that works out well.

This is a video where you can see the work I did for this project...The animation on the wall behind the singer (Who is called Dominique Young Unique, apparently) and the DJs from 2:08 minutes onwards is mine. Let me know what you think! Enjoy!

Hands and Nerves: Research: Much Better Now

This stop motion video has really given me some ideas regarding the going about of things:



Much Better Now from Salon Alpin on Vimeo.

And here is the 'Making Of'video:
Much Better Now - A short making of from Salon Alpin on Vimeo.

Hands and Nerves: Research: Hudson- Against The Grain

I'm just checking out stop motion animations, really. I was very attracted to this video due to the clever use of objects to depict the story.



Hudson - Against The Grain from Dropbear on Vimeo.

Hand and Nerves: Research: Professor Kliq- Wire and Flashing Lights

In order to make things out of materials such as wire, I decided to watch some videos of stop motion animation to gain some confidence and assure myself of its possibility. I found a rather cool video which I would like to share:



Professor Kliq - Wire and Flashing Lights from Patator on Vimeo.

Hands and Nerves: The First Wave of Concepts

What has got me started is the song Dirty Paws by the band Of Monsters and Men




I have interpreted it as a song about a war between animals. I'm pretty sure that it has some metaphorical meaning and so I am going to go all out. I'm trying to create landscapes using simple shapes with colours that stand out in a war struck landscape. I have these three concepts right now and will be looking into manipulating materials such as string, wire and fabric to create bits of the landscape that I can move around in the set using stop-motion animation.

Acid Rain

Morning Sun

Planetarium

Hands and Nerves: Artist Influence: Gisela Stromeyer

Another artists whose work has caught my eye is Gisela Stromeyer. The material the comes to mind is acrylic. I might stack different coloured pieces of acrylic together to make the environment look a bit like it's underwater.

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Hands and Nerves: A Summer Project

To keep myself occupied during the summer, I wanted to try my hand at some stop motion animation. I want to create environments out of fabric and maybe use paper and clay as the materials for the characters. I just want to get my hands dirty and experiment, really. So I'm looking into the work of Rowan Mersh who creates sculptures by manipulating fabric. He has some pretty wicked pieces and they are definitely triggering ideas.

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