Experimental Animation Spring 2019

By Kristine Mauricio

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Week 16- Experimental animation meets pottery

I chose this animation because I thought it was experimenting animation with a different art medium. The person(s) who worked on this experimented with pottery/ ceramics. I really like this animation because the artist did some real animation on a ceramic vessel. Also, because I’m currently taking a ceramics class and I can tell constructing a piece like this takes a lot of time and patience, especially if there’s animation involved.

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Week 15- Looping Stop-Motion

I chose this animation for this week because I thought it was basic and simple. What I like about this animation were the sounds used because without it, the animation would look bland and boring. The sounds really brought this to life.

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Week 14- Experimental

I like this animation because there were a variety of colors used. Sometimes I would find colors distracting but in this animation, it really turned out well. Also, the music really went well this.

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Week 13- Experimental Animation: Rotoscoping

I chose this short animation because I was doing some out-of-class research on rotoscoping and I came across this video.

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Week 12 Rotoscoping Cat

I chose this animation because I was curious to learn more about rotoscoping and I came across this video. I really like that the cat is the main subject, who is running through different worlds in different forms.

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Week 10, March 28, 2019

For this week, my group and I started shooting scenes for the Portals project. The scenes we shot today were the first two people and their chosen worlds, which is the concept we chose: a portal to different worlds. In this hyperlapse video, we were shooting a person turning into a fur ball and then into a small fox. What we plan for our next meeting is to continue shooting scenes with new people and their worlds.

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Week 09- Lebanese Blonde: Blender Experimental Animation

I chose this animation because the clean flow and the simplicity of the entire animation.

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Week 09, March 19, 2019

For this week, my group had to present a powerpoint of our overview of our schedule for the final project, which the theme is called “Portals”. We first brainstormed the idea of what portals mean and we think that it means an open way to ourselves or other simple things like shoes and water bottles. After going over ideas, we decided to go the portals to ourselves, where we look into each person’s worlds and went on from there. Then we talked about when to gather materials, sounds, concept art, what and whose scenes to shoot on certain days, and materials for the sound to record and days as well. Once we’re done with our rough schedule, we had to present it class. For next week, we plan on showing each other a concept art of our worlds and bring something for the sounds.

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Week 08- GOING FISHING. A Stop motion Animation by Guldies

I picked another animation from Guldies because I really like their animation. I really love the claymation with the water and lake and the fire animation.

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Week 08, March 12, 2019

Today in class, we first gathered each person’s animation and put it together in adobe after effects. I just took an unused paint on glass animation of flowers growing and mushing them at the end. Then after that, we went to the sound room and messed around with sound mixing with the help of our professor. I think my group and I are going to have fun with it when we’re doing the “Portals” project. Once the recording was done we were able to present this to the class.

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Week 07- DISTORTION. A Stop motion Animation by Guldies

For this week, I recently found out about this animator named Guldies from a classmate in Experimental Animation class and I was really into what I was watching. Everything about this animation is really smooth and clean. After watching one video from this animator, I wanted to watch more.

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Week 06- Paint-on-glass - 2D Animation by Eusebio Catanho

I chose this animation because from doing a lot of paint-on-glass animation in class lately. i also chose this because it was just really nice to watch.

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Week 06, February 26-27, 2019

For this week, my group had a few days to catch up on our "Entity" project because we were told that we're a little behind and are planning to meet on other days (before March 5- due date).

On the 26th, it was our official class time and we were working separately in two groups so we can film more scenes to catch up. One group was working on the stop motion area for a tree turning into a person scene using clay. The other group, where I worked on, were animating some cut outs of bacteria.

The next day, Feb 27th, we went back to oil painting on glass to shoot more space scenes but this time, adding the planets with earth as the center.

Video of progress: https://vimeo.com/322104578

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Week 05-The Animation of Man | 2012 by Amanda Nedermeijer

I chose this animation for this week because, overall, it looks very good and cut outs look very clean. I thought adding pixilation with the hands interacting with the scenes really brought the 2D cut outs to life.

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Week 05, February 19, 2019

Today in class, my group and I were able to start filming our first scenes for our “Entity” film. For our first scene, a space scene, we used oil paints and painted on glass; which Angie was doing while I took the pictures. For the duration of class time, we only got 71 frames for 24fps, which equals to 3 seconds. And the reason for that is because the oil paints were tricky and tedious to work with but the scene turned out really well. While taking the frames for the space scene, Sandra was cutting out organism shapes on construction paper for a scene that will used the next time of filming. Here is a video of the progress of our “Entity” film.

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Week 04-Experimental Light Sculpture by Karim Mansour

I like this animation because I think it can be used as a source of inspiration or reference for the “Entity” project that my group might be aiming for. What I love about this animation is the visuals.

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Week 04, February 12, 2019

Today in class, we were testing how well we know Adobe After Effects and I would say that I still need more experimenting and practice with the program. What we did in After Effects is importing our shots from last week’s class and editing it out using key light and masking and adding our chosen background to it. Here is how my experiment turned out.