Off the Path Development

test 1




test 2

I spent the bank holiday experimenting with animation techniques in the attic. Got messy mixing traditional materials – charcoal, paint, crayon, tipp-ex – with photographic material. I've posted up two of the tests.

I’m working as an animator for Rachel Henson's Off the Path. It's designed as an installation in the woods of Stanmer Park that tells a narrative through the use of early optical and animation devices- Zoetropes, Thaumatropes, Phenakistoscope- basically, all the tropes and the scopes. Working with these kinds of devices necessitates a lot of simple looping animations.

Happy accident: all the frames of the charcoal run cycle helpfully resolve themselves into a tree….