Experimental Animation # 2

Today, January 29, 2019 is the second day for my experimental animation class. For the past few   days my group and I needed to do research pertaining to the word "entity." We needed to look for things that can influence an audience's present interpretation of an entity, what materials we could use in order to create an entity, and sounds that can set the tone and vibe for the element. We then went ahead and created a second experimental animation piece to play around in dragon frame so that way we could use stop motion to capture our thoughts so we can represent our ideas thoroughly before we move forward with our final project. Lastly, we uploaded our footage to after effects and our professor showed us a few techniques to alter the footage in order to give it a kaleidoscope effect, so that way our audience is unsure as to what is going on or rather feel uneasy.

First Day of Experimental Animation

For today's class, January 22, 2019, We had the chance to explore Maya or rather any medium that we were comfortable with in order to make a five second video to show the unique things that we can do to learn what experimental animation was first hand. This is my video of five seconds that I created by using a rigged Maya character using a galaxy background. I really enjoyed this class because I was able to have fun with what I was doing. It didn't need to be perfect, it just needed to showcase that I was experimenting with my medium just so that I can be more open minded to the different techniques and styles that are related to the world of animation.

I came across an experimental animation performance that was on YouTube by a student named Miwa Matreyek from the California Institute of the Arts. In her piece, she uses a dark room to help create silhouettes as well as and led lights to alter her settings and her actions. This peace spoke to me due to the fact that I think that animation is just something that is a film but it can also be used for live action performances as well. By using led lights to animate her surroundings, it required her to use less props on the stage and helped her to maintain focus on her actions and visuals of the lights. It was very creative and it was nice to see transitions while she was on stage instead of having to wait for things to be moved around during an intermission. here is a link to her work

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZUAMLmQzpg