Weekend in the attic

test 1




test 2

Spent the bank holiday weekend experimenting with animation techniques in an attic. Got messy mixing traditional materials – charcoal, paint, crayon, tipp-ex (!) – with photographic material. I've posted up two of the tests.
I’m getting stuck back into working as the animator on an installation in the woods that tells a narrative through the use of early optical and animation devices- Zoetropes, Thaumatropes, Phenakistoscope- basically giving all the tropes and the scopes a ride. Working with these kinds of devices necessitates a lot of simple looping animations, like the Test 2 charcoal run cycle. I'm developing the look of the character at present and am working on an underground burrow structure for her to live in.

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