(Your Baby) animated music video

A day in the park 2011

 

This piece depicts the escapism of my own imagination as my work has become more about enlightenment and romanticism. I thrive to highlight beauty in animation as i believe the music is the most powerful source examples such as Fantasia, Bambi, Len Lye are used to create an atmosphere or emotional response to either the characters or images place in front of the screen.  Please feel free to watch and comment. :)

Experimental Animation

 

This is an experimental piece i made using stop motion, which I still think is not finished. I trying to create an atmospheric approach concentrating on the materiality of objects and textures of the soil, however the work itself is very sketchy as I'm interested in the drawn aspect of the work.  I have drawn into the soil creating images of nature and growth as it mainly focuses on environmental meanings.  It is very quirky yet i still think the sense of narrative could be more present. There is a element of symbolism, childhood and nature in the piece as I've mainly combined image with sound.  Yet i still feel like i could refine the piece a bit more. Please feel free to comment as your comments mean a lot to me :)  

Bus Stop

This is my newest animation involving a man waiting at a Bus Stop while everyday life happens around him, however not all goes to plan while he is waiting.  I've added a small amount more to the animation to show the passage of time.  It is a very simple idea and correlates very much like the fish bowl animation underlining the concepts of everyday life, waiting, time and boredom. Please feel free to watch :)

Fed Up 2010 (New alternative piece)

This is a redo of Fed Up as i wasn't happy with the other animation.  It involves more shots then the first so the movement of the fish is a bit more smoother and has a completely different ending.  The piece talks about the essence of time and waiting and I've extended the piece to underline these aspects of the work as i found the first piece to short. The work itself is minimalistic with the simple drawing showing the movement of the fish and the environment around it. After all this is a fishes life and i find it very inspirational with connotations of loneliness, repetition, stillness, being trapped, and self-consciousness. Please feel free to watch :) 

Feeling the Effects

This piece is to express the idea of repetition. At the time I created the piece I was drinking and socialising quite a lot and i wanted to express this into an art context. The work has aspects of dark humor, tension, atmosphere, in a very surreal manner with the illusions of the pint glass exploding and the close up of the dart hitting the dartboard.

Buzz

This is an animation i worked on underlining the visual perspective of a fly after reading 'insect poetics' by Eric. C. Brown. It highlights three different proportions of the fly to give the sense of an atmospheric environment which happens to be my home which I photographed around my kitchen.  The piece itself was not meant to be comical.    However people started laughing due to the sound and cartoon drawn aspect of the work. Since than I've started to look into the ideas of humour in animation and cartoons.  Please feel free to leave your comments and thank you for watching :)

Byam Shaw Final Piece 2008

This was my final piece at Byam Shaw, I mainly wanted to reflect on the sketchbook as a dairy of thoughts and personal feelings. For me the sketchbook is the important source of information as it holds a lot of time, thought and experimentation. This was to show a journey of ideas which would come to life in a book.