Sketchy Sketch

Random sketchy stuff:

Overlay from a shot in my thesis:

And gif experiments:

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Inspiration and Keaton's Animation

So I've been recently browsing through random articles and videos for inspiration and came across this:


Late Night Work Club from Late Night Work Club on Vimeo.

 I love it. I love the idea of shared yet untethered creativity. Especially the idea of a community of independent animators. Makes me feel much less alone in the things I wish to do. Looks like this community holds lots of experimentation mixed some just plain bad-assery. Plus the tag line "In the dark, we build" is just so perfectly revolutionary sounding.

 Anyway, I told you that story to tell you this one. In looking through the videos of the various contributing artists, I came across this awesome piece by Charles Huettner:
 
I Am Sing from Charles Huettner on Vimeo.

 I was pretty inspired by this piece specifically because it seemed like a fun project that would loosen me a bit and allow me to share a project with my younger brother. This is the resulting piece:

 
Keaton's Animation from Candice Weber on Vimeo.

Background on Keaton: I recently introduced the idea of stop motion to him. My first memory of understanding the process was also a toy car chase my dad helped me make. However, Keaton chose that topic of his own accord as cars are his favorite thing ever. He was very excited about the way it turned out and my mom told me he's been counting his youtube video views. I think he enjoyed the feeling of creating something people can watch.

The collaborative nature of this type of project has me thinking of the influence that creating art with others has on children. I'd like to explore this idea more and in turn it'd be fantastic if I could cultivate an interest and understanding of art and animation making in my family and friends, particularly Keaton. I've always had an interest in animation being used for education, but I never really thought about how the hands on process has the power to teach as well as bond people.