Wallrus

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WALLRUS is a four-year project involving six SEAT animators. We have been commissioned by STart, Sound Transit Art Program, to create animation on a section of the wall around the Capitol Hill light rail construction. We will be animating on it at different times, for different purposes, and always in full view of the sometimes participating public over four years, from 2010 to 2014. Clyde Petersen had directorial control of the wall Sept 2010-March 2011 and Amanda Moore March 2011-September 2011. Tess Martin used the wall in October 2011 to animate her film, The Whale Story and Webster Crowell used the wall until September 2012 for his rocketmen project. Otto Bulut created a scene for a music video on the wall in October 2012. For posts on all the projects on the wall, visit the SEAT site here, and check out the official blog for the whole Capitol Hill Wall Project: http://startwallproject.blogspot.com/

Oct 032012
 

Remember how the Seattle Experimental Animation Team has been making work on one portion of the big red construction wall on Capitol Hill? Specifically a portion of wall near the cone fountain inside Cal Anderson Park?

Well, this four-year project involving rotating animators is called Wallrus, and on Thursday, Oct 11th as part of the Capitol Hill Art Walk we are turning the wall into a screening space, and projecting the work created on the wall in the last two years. Here is the Facebook event.

Specifically you will get a chance to see Clyde Petersen‘s video for The Thermals, animated in chalk, Tess Martin‘s short film The Whale Story, animated in paint/pixellation, and works in progress from Amanda Moore, Webster Crowell (you may remember people roaming the park in rocket suits a few month ago?) and Otto Bulut (actually animating this weekend! So stop by the park to check that out also).

Since it’s art walk there will be snacks, beverages and live music!

 

Big Red Wallrus

Five murals, Five animators, Five larger than life experimental films.  Thursday October 11 2012 from 7 to 9pm at the North end of Cal Anderson park, join SEAT (Seattle Experimental Animation Team) for an outdoor peek at five films animated larger than life on the Sound Transit Construction wall.

Clyde Petersen, Amanda Moore, Tess Martin, Webster Crowell and Otto Bulut host three screens with finished videos and works-in-progress in an evening including live music, snacks and rocket juice.

Jul 162012
 
Goodbye Whale!

Today I went to visit my whale mural to say goodbye – she will be painted over this weekend for a fellow animator’s project. It’s nice that the whole nine months she’s been up the only graffiti we’ve suffered is this super cute tag of another whale! For those of you curious about what this [...]

Dec 082011
 
Whale Story continues in Cal Anderson Park

Work continues on the SEAT wall as animator Tess Martin shoots some close-ups scenes for her project the Whale Story. Actor (performer/curator/free man) DK Pan took these shots in between posing for close-ups. In this scene the fisherman is cutting the line that will unravel the tangle of nets.

Dec 062011
 
Animation continues on Whale Story

Today I went out to the Wallrus wall (the portion of the Sound Transit red wall assigned to SEAT) and animated a short close-up shot for my current project The Whale Story. This is a segment of a larger film and tells the story of a whale being freed from fishing nets. If you’re curious, [...]

Nov 182011
 
Whale Story Timelapse video

Check out this timelapse video of the Whale Story being animated on a 16ft high wall in Cal Anderson Park! Many people helped and some even got recorded re-telling the RadioLab story on which this film is based. To listen to the original RadioLab story, find the ‘Animal Minds’ podcast. http://youtu.be/sfTpDgL_KN0

Nov 092011
 
The Whale Story wall video at Art Walk on Thursday

For those of you that stopped by the animator’s wall (Wallrus) the weekend of Oct 1 & 2, you may have noticed a bunch of crazy people animating giant murals. The story, about a whale being freed from fishing nets, is part of my film about animal-human relationships. I still need to reshoot some scenes, [...]

Oct 032011
 

Here is a sample of timelapse photos take during the Seattle Experimental Animation Team’s Wallrus project on October 1st & 2nd 2011. Led by Tess Martin, the group animated a story from RadioLab. Those three second were probably 2 hours of work! Photos taken by Doug Mora. Thanks Doug! More coming shortly! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgaiWkawgtE