Animation workshop (03/03/2020)

Animation workshop (03/03/2020)

Principles:

– Canada animation (NFB)

– PixAl animation: Norman McLaren – sound in a film strip

– Terry Jones

– paper cutouts animation; South Park

– Peter Gabriel’s Sledgehammer

Zoetrope, flickbook, phenakistoscope – Muybridge photos

Shadow play; Indonesia (1780s?)

most animation: 8-10 fps (but playing at 25 fps – video) for smooth transitions

– stills

– Copydesk

It’s such a beautiful day (2012)

William Kentridge – charcoal

Jan Svankmajer: experimental/surrealist

Brothers Quay

SketchUp

Blender

Premier

Animation kits

drawings – copyset – kits to make? >> registration – – > in the AV studio

Cel Animation concepts (layers) – using frame

I’ve decided to get to know the basics of animation because I am considering using somewhat of an animation using painting of seascapes. I’d like to show the motion of waves in a more real, but kind of a poetic way as I am drawing reference from my own memories. In addition, I am considering using sound/music to enhance the experience of being within the seascape, not just watching the sea. I could use the layers of fabric as each new movement of the animation – see Summer term, Week 2 notes from the tutorial for more.

Lithography workshop (AAAD Prague, November – December 2019, Autumn Term)

Lithography workshop (AAAD Prague, November – December 2019, Autumn Term)

STEP BY STEP:

  1. Grinding the stone – you get to chose your stone and the grinding takes some time depending on the size of the stone (from 15 to 60 minutes approximately): grinding happens using another smaller, rougher in structer stone, which is to be moved in circular movement around the edges of the stone, at first ordinary sand is used and then you get to chose from a selection in regards to preference of tools used for the drawing/painting and texture wanted for the print, need to wash the stone in between the grinding with the sand
  2. You can start to draw on the stone immediately with either grease-based chalk, ink or paint, need to remember that the drawing/painting is to be done mirror-reversed
  3. Printing: the parts of the drawing is removed using turpentine, gum arabic due to its water absorbent properties, this means that when ink is applied, it only goes onto the parts where the drawing was >> lithography ink to be used (lithography ink/ etching ink + powder potassium), ink is applied using an appropriately sized roller, corrections of the drawing parts can be done on the stone using an etching solution (gum arabic and acidic solution) using appropriate tool
  4. The stone to be cleaned using water and turpentine and the rolling station as well as rollers with oil and cloth and turpentine at the end
Drawing on my stone