A New Idea

A first Attempt At Animation.

This is a rough early version of my animation, the clip is, at the moment one seconds worth of footage, but for some reason it's running slowly. However the slowness actually helps to see where I can improve on the quality of the production.

Rust. A quick experiment.

A Quick Experiment.

I had a quck bash at  seeing if I could create a reasonably realistic looking rusted piece of metal using Photoshop. The answer appears to be yes, I can.

 Adding this

 To This

 

Gave me this (after a little bit of Photoshopping)

Diary Of Nigress by Kara Walker

 During a recent trip to the Tate Modern I had fortune to watch a show reel by Californian artist Kara Walker. Her work often uses shadow puppets, some times as a puppet performance, sometimes as animation, and touches on the topics of race and gender in America in both modern times and during the era of black slavery.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htIS2n_3mkk

Return I will to Old Brazil (2005)

The jazz standard Brazil with an animation that features some abstract and  slightly surreal imagery, created in a style that owes much to shadow puppetry.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6D9I03URhtw 

Bach, Toccata and Fugue in D minor, organ

A very simple computer generated animation of Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D min.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipzR9bhei_o 

More Notes

More Notes

A few more bits and bobs of ideas generated from further listening to my track.

Story Board

Story Board.

A few experiments with Tinfoil.

A few experiments with Tinfoil.

One Idea I have for my animation is, to use tinfoil  and get to appear to move like waves on a beach. Here are a few preliminary experiments with textures and tinfoil.

My first attempt at animation.

Animated logos.

https://vimeo.com/justelwalsh/videos

An early group project at animating a couple of commercial logos. It kind of reminds of the early animations, which I suppose it would do. Both the early animators and my group would be exploring similar ideas and avenues.