Monday, 30 May 2011
Friday, 13 May 2011
The ups and downs of animating
Hello there! It's Anna, here to tell you more about our animation frolics!
Over the past three weeks now, we've been busy, busy, busy, animating our socks off to get them finished in time for our opening, and slowly but surely they have all stated taking shape. I've been really enjoying animating! It's so rewarding watching back your 14 seconds of work after 3 hours of hard work!.....well that doesnt't make it sound that fun, but it really is! I have such a big respect for animators now, like the Aardman gang who create full length films! Would take a while!
Here are some pics from one particular animation session; :)
Over the past three weeks now, we've been busy, busy, busy, animating our socks off to get them finished in time for our opening, and slowly but surely they have all stated taking shape. I've been really enjoying animating! It's so rewarding watching back your 14 seconds of work after 3 hours of hard work!.....well that doesnt't make it sound that fun, but it really is! I have such a big respect for animators now, like the Aardman gang who create full length films! Would take a while!
Here are some pics from one particular animation session; :)
Ciaran and Cathryn creating their voluptuous figurines!
Katie and me preparing the background for our animation!
Joff!
Charlie having his face painted!
Charlie painting Ella's face!
Me and Katie have been creating an animation that is centred round a seagull called Kristoff, about his adventures at the Arnolfini and the docks! Unfortunately last week, we faced some difficulties when we found that half of our animation had just disappeared from the school macs...leaving us with only 14 seconds of our animation on the week they had to be finished by!! Was really quite a bummer! And poor Hannah was getting really stressed out! But despite this, we managed to turn it around and just accepted that it was gone, redid some of the scenes and finished it off! And I think it looks great, so I couldn't be more pleased! :)
Anyway, that's enough for now, GOODBYE!!!
Sunday, 8 May 2011
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 50th 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.
Friday, 8 April 2011
Hello.
Sorry for the delay in the post but its here finally, never done one of these blog things so bear with me.
On the 23rd we had a meeting with Annabel Rees who co-founded the Arnolfini in 1961 and Peter Swann who was one of the first artists to exhibit at the Arnolfini.
Our task was to listen to the stories and their thoughts they had about the history of the gallery and to take notes/sketch images of any imagery that we liked to use as source material for creating an animation about the Arnolfini. They both had a lot of interesting things to say and stories to tell which means I'm sure we all have alot of ideas. Nicely done on the cake aswell Katie.
Sorry for the delay in the post but its here finally, never done one of these blog things so bear with me.
On the 23rd we had a meeting with Annabel Rees who co-founded the Arnolfini in 1961 and Peter Swann who was one of the first artists to exhibit at the Arnolfini.
Wednesday, 23 March 2011
Archives and Videos...
Hello it's Anna :) Here to tell you all about the shenanigans of YAAC last week.
First things first, we gathered in the reading room to meet the Archivist of the Arnolfini - Julian Warren - who told us many interesting things, including all about the exhibit CRACKERS being displayed in the reading room, which was a piece of performance art involving a bed of lettuce (literally!).
Then we got up on our feet and went to look at Neil Cummings Arnolfini/Social History/Art History time line, that climbs up the stairwell, which was a nice visual to everything Julian was telling us about the Arnolfini's history and how it was created and things. Felt like quite the Arnolfini buff afterwards!
The importance of learning about all the history and stuff is because of our new big exciting project we have been assigned! To celebrate 50 years of the arnolfini we have been asked to make a video/animation with the legendary video artist Joff! (I don't know his full name) So it's all very exciting at the moment! And next week we will be meeting the woman who first set up the Arnolfini plus an artist who was in the very first exhibition!
So then we headed back to the light studio where we properly met Joff (who you can see in a checkered shirt in the above pictures) and he told us all about what he does and things! He kept saying he wasn't very artistic but when we saw some of his videos, they were amazing, so i disagree! Really looking forward to attempting to make our own video!
Anyway, I cant think of anything more to say, so goodbyeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee :)
First things first, we gathered in the reading room to meet the Archivist of the Arnolfini - Julian Warren - who told us many interesting things, including all about the exhibit CRACKERS being displayed in the reading room, which was a piece of performance art involving a bed of lettuce (literally!).
Then we got up on our feet and went to look at Neil Cummings Arnolfini/Social History/Art History time line, that climbs up the stairwell, which was a nice visual to everything Julian was telling us about the Arnolfini's history and how it was created and things. Felt like quite the Arnolfini buff afterwards!
The importance of learning about all the history and stuff is because of our new big exciting project we have been assigned! To celebrate 50 years of the arnolfini we have been asked to make a video/animation with the legendary video artist Joff! (I don't know his full name) So it's all very exciting at the moment! And next week we will be meeting the woman who first set up the Arnolfini plus an artist who was in the very first exhibition!
So then we headed back to the light studio where we properly met Joff (who you can see in a checkered shirt in the above pictures) and he told us all about what he does and things! He kept saying he wasn't very artistic but when we saw some of his videos, they were amazing, so i disagree! Really looking forward to attempting to make our own video!
Anyway, I cant think of anything more to say, so goodbyeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee :)
Monday, 21 March 2011
Sunday, 20 March 2011
YAAC meet Bristol Diving School
Hello :D Connel here
On the 9th March we met at Spike Island and Hannah showed us around the studio spaces which was really cool as some of us had never seen an artist's studio before.
http://www.spikeisland.org.uk/
After we left Spike Island we went to meet Bristol Diving School, another Bristol based collective, which was a really fantastic experience.
The exhibiton was titled 'OHM'
Here is a picture of us at the opening:
From left to right, it's Hannah, me, Anna and Charlie infront of a resistor.
It was a really great exhibiton, featuring an extract from Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha, T.Vs showing waterfalls flowing at different speeds and a synthesiser which you could play with to create strange ethereal sounds, without adding different notes we thought it sounded like bubbles rising.
http://new.bristoldivingschool.net/2011/03/ohm-opening/
On the 9th March we met at Spike Island and Hannah showed us around the studio spaces which was really cool as some of us had never seen an artist's studio before.
http://www.spikeisland.org.uk/
After we left Spike Island we went to meet Bristol Diving School, another Bristol based collective, which was a really fantastic experience.
The exhibiton was titled 'OHM'
Here is a picture of us at the opening:
It was a really great exhibiton, featuring an extract from Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha, T.Vs showing waterfalls flowing at different speeds and a synthesiser which you could play with to create strange ethereal sounds, without adding different notes we thought it sounded like bubbles rising.
http://new.bristoldivingschool.net/2011/03/ohm-opening/
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