Animation & Motion Design: May 2014

Friday 16 May 2014

Animation 2nd Year Exhibition

Two days ago we had our second year Animation and Motion Design Exhibition, which went surprisingly well. The Animation's that were shown were only from our most recent Project. The works include some unfinished and finished works from the class.

Here is our class vimeo link which includes not only animations from the newest Project but also some other ones:

http://vimeo.com/lsadamd/videos

The Next Images are some model pieces, made by students in my class, which were used for their Claymations.

Pat Clancy- The Oldest Lion

Michael Byrne- Sid

Jessica McNulty- The hedgehog in the bucket

The Exhibition was a good way to end the year.

Zoo Sketches

Last week we went to Fota Wildlife in Cork for our class trip. Here are just a few quick sketches which I drew towards the end of the trip. It was hard to draw animals that kept moving. I also drew a quick sketch of my classmate.

Wednesday 14 May 2014

Background Set

Most of my background houses were born from cereal boxes or just ordinary boxes, which I found around my house and were then painted over with acrylic.

All boxes were painted differently on both sides so I got two houses out of one box. The houses bellow are bigger than the above ones as they will be in the middle ground. The abandoned houses are the most important ones in my animation and are more detailed than the other ones because of that.I have 90% of the Set done. All I need to add is more graffiti on the houses and walls.

Since I ran out of space in my room the set had to be placed in the hallway until I am finished using it.

Richard Mosse- The Enclave Exhibition

Richard Mosse- The Englave, Ireland at Venice, The Irish Tour was held in Limerick in the Ormston House from March to the 14th of May. This was probably one of the most beautiful exhibitions which I have seen so far. The photography which I took doesn't do his work justice at all. His exhibition is something that must be seen in person to fully understand just how amazing it is.

The Exhibition consisted of a room with very huge scale photography and a room with multiple- screen film installations. The work that is displayed shows Richard Mosse's three year exploration of the conflicted landscape of the Democratic Republic of Congo. He used a discontinued military film, originally used for camouflage detection, to show the unseen tragedy that happens in the Congo.

The Photographs were breath taking and seemed to get more and more detailed the closer I stood in front of them. What I most found interesting about the multiple- screen film installation was the strong contrast between the beautiful looking landscape and the theme of war. It was somewhat strange to see so much deaths and tragedy in such a happy coloured palette.