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Reflection: Seminars

During the seminar sessons on fridays I feel I have been exposed to some intresting new ways of thinking, handling ideas and methods of work. The seminars in Narrative and Storytelling as well as in Research and Recording seemed the most benifical to me. 

Researching narrative structure helped me develope ideas for animation breifs such as for the ‘An Occurence on Owl Creek Bridge’ animatic. By learning about how to build tension and expectation through storytelling allowed me to develope my storytelling skills through my planning in storyboards for the animation briefs. 

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PASTEL AND CARD ANIMATION: FIGURE IN THE ROOM 

This is an observationally drawn animation of a model twisting using pastels and coloured card. I was influenced by this style of animation by adverts for the Royal Oprah House London. 

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MATERIALISE: GROWTH CHALK BOARD ANIMATION 

Response to Yannis Kronenberg Chalk Board animation work. 

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MATERIALISE RESEARCH AND RECORD: 

SCREEN PRINTING TUTORIAL: 

These are a selection of photos I had taken at a screen printing tutorial for the Research and Record brief.   

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RESEARCH AND RECORD: WOODCUTTING PROCESS

A design is created and drawn on a flat block of wood. The composition is created knowing that the resulting print will be a mirror image of the carved block. Areas not intended to be seen are carved away with small, hand chisels and U-shaped gouges. The raised area of the block that remains will be the surface that creates the image. In color prints, it is important to maintain the paper registration in relation to the block. A corresponding notch is carved in two places along the edge of the block to insure the paper falls into the same position for each color.

Once the block has been carved in the shape of the intended color, its remaining raised areas are inked with a roller, or brayer. The ink is first mixed and rolled out on a flat and smooth surface. Once it is at the desired consistency and color, it is applied to the woodblock.

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RESEARCH AND RECORD MATERIALISE: 

Käthe Kollwitz was a German artist whose Expressionistic prints, woodcuts, and sculptures empathetically portrayed human suffering. Capturing the anguish and plight of the impoverished and injured in a country torn apart by armed conflict, Kollwitz herself suffered numerous losses during the wars—including the death of her youngest son in World War I. “It is my duty to voice the sufferings of humankind, the never-ending sufferings heaped mountain high,” she once stated. “This is my task, but it is not an easy one to fulfill.”

Considered one of Germany’s most important early 20th-century artists, Käthe Kollwitz captured the hardships suffered by the working class in drawings, paintings, and prints. Themes of war and poverty dominate Kollwitz’s oeuvre, with images of women grieving dead children a particularly important and recurring theme an experience that Kollwitz suffered herself when her son died in WWI, influencing her decision to become a Socialist. Kollwitz’s unflinching exploration of human suffering amounted to a searing indictment of social conditions in Germany.

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Narrative and Storytelling:

David Shrigley Random Acts digital animation. Narrative through a silent 2 minute long animation  

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STORYTELLING AND NARRATIVE: 

David Shrigly is a British artist best known for his minimal comic like illustration, and dark surrealist humour. He creates individual narratives on each page in some of his publications. These stories are short minimal and lacking in dialogue but are still funny and appealing for the reader. 

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DAVID LYNCH: Animated Short The Alphabet 

The Alphabet (1968) combines animation and live action and goes for four minutes. It has a simple narrative structure relating a symbolically rendered expression of a fear of learning.

The idea for The Alphabet came from Lynch's wife, Peggy Lentz, a painter whose niece, according to Lynch in Chris Rodley's Lynch on Lynch book, "was having a bad dream one night and was saying the alphabet in her sleep in a tormented way.

Lynch explores through animation the relationship between text and image and how text can distort and can even corrupt how images/ art could be preceived. 

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REFLECTING AND CONSTRUCTING: 

TYPOLOGY Nigel Peake, watercolor artist and architect.  he is best know for creating the  book, In the Wilds, which documents his close examination of the Irish countryside. In his introduction, Peake writes that the “land is made from many small parts. The hills, flats, and valleys made up of colors and shapes.” On top of these natural shapes are man-made structures, some already decayed, and the field, which encompasses “the patterns and natural occurences that happen within it.”

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REFLECTING CONSTRUCTING: TYPOLOGY 

Bernhard Bernd and Hilla Becher were German conceptual artists and photographers working as a collaborative duo. They are best known for their extensive series of photographic images, or typologies, of industrial buildings and structures, often organised in grids. As the founders of what has come to be known as the ‘Becher school’ or the ‘Düsseldorf School’ they influenced generations of documentary photographers and artists.

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IDEAS THROUGH MOTION: THE SELF PORTRAITS OF WILLIAM UKTERMOHLEN

In 1995 Ultermohlen learnt that he had dementia over the last 8 years of his life. Whilst living in London he did a series of self portraits which shows the slow deteriation of his body and mind. 

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NORWEGIAN WOOD: INK BLOG EXPERIMENTATION ANIMATION 

This is a short GIF animation I had created by using Ink blob rorschach tests on numerous pages. I created this animation in response to the Penguin Design Awards breif.  

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Noma Bar is an Israeli graphic designer, illustrator and artist, based in London. Bar's work has been described as "deceptively simple", featuring flat colours, minimal detail and negative space to create images that often carry double meanings that are not immediately apparent. Bar himself outlines his approach as avoiding unnecessary detail or decoration that might detract from an image's message, instead aiming for 'maximum communication with minimal elements

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PLAY THE SCENE RESEARCH: 

- Collage artist best known for designing artwork for the American punk band ‘Dead Kennedy’s’ in the late 1970′s. Smith uses visercal imagery, taken from newspapers and other photographic sources in order to mock and express the ruthlessness and corruption of government and religion. 

Themes: - Government corruption ie Watergate, the far right politics of politican Jerry Brown, rise of christian control in media and government. 

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PLAY THE SCENE: 

Robert Dennis Crumb is an American cartoonist and musician who often signs his work R. Crumb. His work displays a nostalgia for American folk culture of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and satire of contemporary American culture.

Crumb is a prolific artist and contributed to many of the seminal works of the underground comix movement in the 1960s, including being a founder of the first successful underground comix publication, Zap Comix, contributing to all 16 issues. He was additionally contributing to the East Village Other and many other publications, including a variety of one-off and anthology comics.