Noise becomes aesthetic, and vice versa. Animation skills are really flexible in producing more incoherent pieces of abstract motion just as equally as they are in creating a story to portray a message. In this case, it's more about connoting a tone, an atmosphere, rather than a story. A friend of mine has created an avant-garde ambient project for which he requires an animation to be projected in the background like a visualization that will help carry the atmosphere of the music - to simulate a post-modern ritual, in a way. As I've stated previously, I love the notion of philosophy and analysis behind animation; how even the most abstract does have something beneath its layers. For this project of his, I crafted a looped animation that is based on one of my stop-motion works - "Unexpected" in particular, which is animation that I made for the module Animation Skills. However, I fully tweaked it, experimented with my new-found skills in Premiere, expanded upon them, and by introducing my new taste in what I consider to be visually aesthetic designed an animation that complements the sound of the project. For example, I used Echo in order to give the animation a more ghastly and ethereal appeal to it, as every movement is mimicked. Another example would be the Bend I added that makes the animation seem distorted, alluding to a sense of ambiguity and dizziness, which I believe to go great with the music due to their obscure similarities. All in all, it has to do with post-production rather than with production, which is nonetheless a skill to be progressively developed for animation is NOT solely just about animation. One must have an eye for mise-en-scene, eliminating all possible "holes" in the scenography of the animation for it to seem solid, appealing, and not flat, which is the essence of this animation that I crafted. Generally, I believe that art-forms function in this manner where the raw can be distorted in a multitude of ways, producing an abundance of different outcomes through the raw - this is done in music with sampling and analogue effect pedals, for example. I am now generally interested in the incorporation of different elements within stop motion and seeing how far I can push that, as well as the experimentation of techniques in producing an arbitrary resolution (be it an animation or piece of design) and learning from its mistakes and strengths.
"Retreat - Immersion" -
https://vimeo.com/165191484"retreat" -
https://soundcloud.com/retreat_music
