Interviews and Animations

Hey, Charlie C-T here bringing you some YAAC fun with a splash of animation.

We have been doing animations for a while now for an upcoming show that we are having at Arnolfini called “Remove the ceiling so the sculpture can carry on…”. These animations are based on Arnolfini’s history and it’s 50^th anniversary.

About 3 weeks ago we had an interview with Annabel Rees (one of the founders of Arnolfini) and Peter Swan (whose work was part of Arnolfini’s first exhibition) about what it was like when Arnolfini was just starting, their memories of Arnolfini and what they think about it now. The interview was very interesting and an eye opener about what it is like to start/run a place like Arnolfini.

A week after the interview, using material from Arnolfini’s “Living Archive” project and the interview, we set to work creating our animations with the aid of Joff, an expert animator. Our creative juices started flowing and the animations were well under way.

Ella and I are working together on our animation and it just turned out that Ella has a MASSIVE amount of playmobil! We remembered that Peter Swan said something about people riding bikes across canvas to create art, and he thought it was "Disgusting", so Ella brought in her playmobil and we used the little people and their bikes to reenact this scene that Peter described. I don't know if you have ever done animation with playmobil before, but it is such hassle trying to get these small stiff figures to throw paint over a canvas! After about 4 hours of animation we produced 2 small clips totaling a time of about 40 seconds! I know they said it would take a while, but this was just madness. 

All in all I am having great fun with this project and I can't wait to see the finished product. 

Ella and I are now working on a face painted animation which gets very messy from time to time!

Thanks for stopping by, and sorry for the lateness.

Charlie C-T.