Animation Snippets
Animation Snippets
Animation Snippets
A collection of very short animations as a way to explore random ideas
A collection of very short animations as a way to explore random ideas
A collection of very short animations as a way to explore random ideas
Poetry (Degree Project)
Poetry is a short animated film, where I have used combined stop motion and digital animation methods to visualize an excerpt from a poem by Pablo Naruda's titled 'Poetry'.
Research and Explorations
The initial motive of the project was to explore and modify different experimental techniques and narrow down accordingly. After various experimentation, paper as a medium was decided upon for further explorations.
Experimentations with Paper Folding and Hybridization
Various elements were composed using continuous paper folding. Different elements were planned out, their folds, joints, etc, individual elements were animated, merged and composited in 3d space. Later these were merged with ink on water sequences to create hybridization.
Paper folding experiments gave me a scope for further advancement in techniques related to paper.
Theme Based Experiments
After much introspection, the theme selected for further experimentations was ‘Book and its elements’. Considering book as a system, following constants could be experimented upon:
1. Its elements (paper, words/text, ink)
2. Structure and alignment of those elements in it
3. The mechanism of these elements
Accordingly some explorations were done as follows
Paper extrusion
Paper quilling
Paper carving
Text as images
These techniques explored were then expanded upon as further transitions between these techniques, combinations and modifications were worked upon
Selecting a Narrative and Final Animation
A narrative was selected so as to direct the thematic based experimentations of a ‘book’. Since the experimentations were so meta in their approach, the narrative was also to be selected to be something about the act of reading, creating or writing.
Considering this, a work of the poet Pablo Neruda titled ‘Poetry’.
Finally, imageries were decided for the individual lines of the poem using the abovementioned techniques that were developed. Different elements of a 'book' were used to create animations.
Rough Animatic
Some shots from the final film
