2 characters research for sand Animation

Whilst using sand as a medium I wanted to research a few artists to develop my skills. I felt that there would be a certain amount of having to be flexible enough to work with a material that is not structured or solid,however I wanted to look at methods and tools to enable me to produce a coherent piece of work.  I started with some test shots and also looked at artists from the web.

Artist Research 001
Working with sand research artists

2 character Development

Developing set and character, during this process, I had to make choices about colours and textures for example I had planned to use the wallpaper shown in the image above, however this did not show the armature in the best way.  I then did some colour testers which I found to make the armature to stand out more clearly.

2 Character Development

whilst  developing my collage skills further and have been researching other artists to identify styles I can relate to and admire.  Bellow is the link for the collage artist Takahiro Kimura who I found to be very interesting.


https://vimeo.com/28013994


Bellow is another artist whom I enjoyed, and would like to investiage further.

https://vimeo.com/5219801

GIUSEPPE RAGAZZINI

2 character Development

Using three layers created some difficulies when it came to finding the correct light and problems with reflections, I resolved this by adjusting the lighting, however I found that during the filming process that I may have only required two layers.

Setting up this way of filming took longer than expected as I had to adjust the lighting and found it difficult to find the correct amount of light for the film whilst not creating shadows or reflections from the glass.  I used a mixture of lighting  and plastic coloured sheets//filters to cover the amount of light going on to work space.

Using the Rostrum and glass sheets to produce layers of animation

Trialing textures and colours to see which works best, using different types of media

I attented a workshop to develop my skills in carpentary, to enable me to produce a set and pieces for my stop motion.

2 Characters testing and Developing

During the 'Fantasy World/Life line' part of my animation, I want to use various types of media to give a depth and distinctively different feel, I have completed some testing out a shot test on Take 5 to help me identify the correct colors to use to help enhance the feel, (see link below), this also enables me to try out this particular media, which I have not used before, prior to using it for filming.

When using Take 5, I used a piece of tracing paper to help to decrease the amount of shadows showing during the shots.  I also intend to film this using the Rostrum and wanted to test how many different layers of glass I may want to use.

I used Yellow Paper (or could be green) in the background to enable me to introduce a still background shot within Adobe After Effects.

https://youtu.be/u7wZeplPTVY