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Fishman Manfish Walk Cycle

After the sabotage of the original Fishman Manfish, I could not bear the pain of animating my dearest creation ever again. That all changed however, when I realised how it would make a nice addition to my showreel. So Fishman Manfish is reborn anew!

Yay.

Interview

Ritual

My flash animation based on the keyword of ‘Ritual’

Created in 2 days.

(Youtube has made the film run a bit slowly, especially with transitions between scenes and at the start of some tweens. Don’t know why but I can’t seem to fix it :/)

Artist Study – Adam Pesapane (PES)

Whilst I was doing my research during our pixellation/stop motion mini-project, I found one artist who had created a very unique and distinct style – PES.

PES is best known for his 2012 Academy Award Nominated film “Fresh Guacamole”, where a mysterious hand is cooking Guacamole using anything but the actual ingredients, replacing them with random objects such as a grenade, dice and a baseball.

Pesapane first became famous with his animated short “Roof Sex” in 2001(See above), which went on to win ‘Best First Short Film’ at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival and put PES on the map as an animator.

I chose to feature PES as an artist to study as his work has a great sense of humour and a charm that really appeals to me. He has a uniqueness and certain special quirkiness to his ideas that I hope to one day capture with my own films.

Artist Study – Peter Foldes

Whilst doing some of my research, reading an article in “Animation: An Interdisciplinary journal” I stumbled upon the name of an Animator I had never heard of before – Peter Foldes. The article I was reading was talking about the use of keyframe animation in 3D animated films, such as “Shrek” and Foldes was mentioned as one of the first people to experiment with keyframe animation in the 1970’s, at the dawn of computer animation.

A quick search on youtube later and I had found what is believed to be one of the very first computer animated films. In this case folds drew all of the keys himself, then used a computer algorithm to calculate all of the in-betweens, which were generated by the computer. What this creates is a very bizarre effect which had never been seen before. I find that the animation looks oddly charming, with a pseudo 3D effect created due to the carefully calculated in-betweens.

Peter Foldes was best known for his Animated short “A Short Vision”, which explores the horrors of nuclear war and the potential destruction of all mankind. The film follows a missile as it flies over the countryside, then small towns and finally a large city before detonating, totally annihilating all the surrounding forms of life that had been previously shown. Due to its graphic nature the film caused a great deal of controversy when it was released in 1956, as it played on the fear of nuclear war that was so present in society at the time.

Foldes frequently collaborated with his wife, Joan Foldes on most of his projects. He died in 1977

Moving Image Final Animation – “Breaking Time”

My finished animation for the Moving Image rotation, based on the theme word of “break”

Fine Art – ‘Traces’ animation

My finished animation for the Fine Art rotation week, based on the theme of the word ‘Traces’