Through experimentation within animation, we used practices that allowed us to to focus less on thinking and more on relying on intuition and sound to guide us through drawing and narration. We watched videos that Mario played, with artists creating abstract drawings and connecting them with sound or connecting each drawing on the composition, through animated loops over on top.
We used these distorted and resonating music to direct us with abstract drawings that didn’t require us to rely on thought, but on instinct. The outcome to me was very visual but not much made sense when you looked at the drawings I created. A lot of the patterns or shapes I drew looked familiar but also abstract at the same time which is what we are supposed to be showing in this workshop.
From here we started interpreting our drawings onto a digital space where we started working on animated loops. We used TV paint for this and focused on creating the first loop of a moving ball within 12 frames. This process is then repeated with a different drawing or element from our base drawing and connected it to the previous loop on the animation.
In the end of our first session I was widened by the experience of letting go of thought and just being free with creativity and letting sound fuel that. From this workshop I reflected that overthinking can stunt creative control and the output. To me it can be an obstruction to natural flow of art and it’s form, therefore experimenting with using careless and loose drawings to create a piece of animation feels like I am speaking through a composition. Instead of thinking about what where and next, what I create as a drawing through sounds being played shows a true expression of how I feel which reflects on the drawings. I definitely feel this type of work flow is useful and meaningful towards communicating my emotions in visual language, because it becomes a natural thought of how I really feel and in terms of utilising this for my final major project, I think the idea is to create and show whatever comes to mind in terms of intention and structure. For example something that is animated or comes across visually as chaotic, can be seen as a reflection of pain and turmoil which could be a reflection of one’s mental state.
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