It’s been a whirlwind of a few days. Firstly, let me just say I am thrilled to have my suitcase back with me. This (filled with all my equipment and files of what I created this month) was mistakenly taken by one of the other artists this morning, and put on a train to New [...]
This month at the I-Park artist residency has been a gift. Not only for the invaluable time to get work done (I’ve got a special surprise you may hear about in my next post), but also because of the other artists I’ve met and spent so much concentrated time with. This Sunday we open up [...]
Pretty busy few days. On Sunday afternoon Chef Jacob drove us to the local Labor Day Fair. There were farm animals, horse pulls, music, rides, and of course, fried food. Pretty typical all-American fair, which the non-American artists greatly appreciated experiencing. Monday was full on work. I re-shot a time lapse of a couch because [...]
The past few days I’ve gotten back into my animation routine. This means I spend hours sitting in one position at my animation table while I listen to podcasts non-stop. I’ve caught up on This American Life and Snap Judgment, two of my favorites. What I’m working on is making the marker-animated animals that I [...]
Yesterday was a magical day. In the morning I trekked back into the woods to do one last time lapse of Spruce Bluff, this time a close up on one of the branches specifically, as I’m thinking of having the cat jump up there and wanted a close up to cut to. It went fine, [...]
I’ve gone a little time lapse crazy over here. I’ve realized that actually these are going to be integral to my film and I’m going to have a lot of them. The concept I’m working with is having lots of time lapses with and without pets in them. And when we do see the animals, [...]
This morning I went back to Spruce Bluff to take another time lapse, as the one I got yesterday was too short (camera ran out of battery!). While there I was inspired by the needle-covered floor, and took another time lapse of that. Now I’m experimenting with adding an animation of a sleeping cat to [...]
Today was time lapse day! I got up early to catch the dawn view from the kitchen door. I then trekked into the woods and took a time lapse of the Spruce Bluff, as you can see below. In the afternoon I trekked into the woods again and took two time lapses (one panned!) of [...]
This film I’m working on is a hard nut to crack. I’ve edited down the audio interviews and gotten to a structure I like, but I got bogged down is the decisions to make about what to actually animate and how. So many ideas! I’ve decided to just start doing and see what happens. With [...]
Today I got up early and walked a specific trail in the park called Mie’s Trail, after the artist that first forged it. There’s some lovely bits in it. My two favourites are ‘the bowl’ and ‘spruce bluff’. Might have to make some animation happen in those trees.