The idea came accidentally but its development draws on articulated animation techniques for inspiration.
This development is partly based on the idea of the led panel screens, but also on the precursor techniques to animation, like the thaumatrope disks, or the praxinoscope, where the effect of the persistance of image on the mind generates the illusion of motion. It consists in tracing a series of consecutive images, and then limiting the passage of light through each of them, one at a time. by limiting the light the effect achieved is similar to of a lightning, the movement of the light not being obstructive to perceive the illusion of motion.
As the adage says "A picture is worth a thousand words".
Tracking or holding the image in different surfaces can create a fixed in place sequence, as also varying the light exposure and the materials underneath the drawing can alter the final appearance. An interesting visual effect obtained through analogue means.
Thursday, 29 September 2011
Tuesday, 20 September 2011
Rumores 1: Sombras
As part of a course in experimental animation it seems necessary to experiment on the materials. If at list with ideas of the possibilities in producing images that can be arranged in sequence and therefore animated. Possibilities, rumors....
In absence to bring good images or some directly related to the following idea for an animation I'll rely more on words to describe it.
Rather than building upon the seen, why not build with the unseen. The absence of light is not transparency but shadows, in spanish sombras.
A few researched examples of shadow animation point to it as that of silhouetted puppets.
The proposed idea differs in planning to use degrees of darkness in conjunction with silhouettes that exist within it. To illustrate this "anti-vision" I'll refer to what inspired it, a walk to the bus stop after a school day, crossing a field where the shadows overlap and hardly any light reflects in any object. Nonetheless the surface of the field creates illusory depths that suggest forms and shapes that do not correspond to what is really there. The degrees of darkness and the movement of the viewer composing the shapes and setting them in motion.
At this point all this entry does is announce the target of a visual research into empty imagery.
In absence to bring good images or some directly related to the following idea for an animation I'll rely more on words to describe it.
Rather than building upon the seen, why not build with the unseen. The absence of light is not transparency but shadows, in spanish sombras.
A few researched examples of shadow animation point to it as that of silhouetted puppets.
The proposed idea differs in planning to use degrees of darkness in conjunction with silhouettes that exist within it. To illustrate this "anti-vision" I'll refer to what inspired it, a walk to the bus stop after a school day, crossing a field where the shadows overlap and hardly any light reflects in any object. Nonetheless the surface of the field creates illusory depths that suggest forms and shapes that do not correspond to what is really there. The degrees of darkness and the movement of the viewer composing the shapes and setting them in motion.
At this point all this entry does is announce the target of a visual research into empty imagery.
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