I’ve animated a lot of scenes over the past week for the water film. There was a scene with a toilet being flushed. A scene of various types of toilets appearing and dissolving. Below you will also see little bacteria making up the word ‘Bacteria’. I first spelled the word and then animated the bacteria [...]
FilmAnnex.com is an ad-supported online video platform that enables filmmakers to monetize their content. I just started my own ‘WebTV’ channel on there recently, and it’s been really interesting. They encourage you to post blog posts as well as videos, so there’s quite a lot of interesting stuff from other filmmakers as well. And most [...]
Today I animated a scene (in reverse) where the shape of the USA is revealed from a giant puddle and then shrinks to nothing. The ink ended up looking surprisingly topographical: Here is a shot of one of my storyboard pages – all checked off! I’m officially more than half way through.
So nice to be interviewed for the Beacon Hill Blog! In this piece I talk about the three films I had in SIFF this year (A Walk in the Woods, They Look Right Through You and Barzan), how they differ, and how the Beacon Hill community was involved. Thanks Andrew!
On Saturday I animated a scene where ink reveals the shape of a face – just as the audio explains how water is a part of us. I used a photo of my three year old nephew as a starting point: Above is a photo of the face after the ink has dried. It dried [...]
Well, the glass sheets that I’ve been using since college finally got too scratched up to use. How does glass get scratched up? Apparently by stacking the sheets on top of each other with a few stray grains of sand trapped in between. After animating the sand sequences for Barzan last year I discovered all [...]
More production photos and one video from the water project: Soap bubbles maximized loop from Tess Martin on Vimeo. This is a pencil test of an 8 frame maximized loop of soap bubbles going down a drain (drain not included). This will end up being animated in ink and – you guessed it! – water.
Here are some production photos from yesterday where I was animating ink appearing in liquid. Only true Northwesters will recognize the shape of this water:
Today I went to Cal Anderson Park and took some recordings of various parts of the water fountain. I got all the samples I needed, like water going down a drain, water coming out of a pipe, water splashing against rocks. Very useful fountain. Here are also some photos of the latest scene I animated [...]
Collograph printmaking experiments from Tess Martin on Vimeo. This video shows experiments with animating collograph prints. The first segment is three separate prints made from three slightly different collograph shellac plates. The second segment is those same three plates printed on top of the same piece of paper. The third segment is three different carborundrum [...]