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 [...]
The first festival acceptance for The Whale Story has come in and it is for the Portugal Underground Film Festival, happening June 8-16, 2012 in the cities of Fundao and Portimao. Having never been to Portugal I so wish I could attend! Cross your fingers for more opportunities to travel to festivals in the near [...]
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.
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, [...]
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
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, [...]
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
The Live Animation by SEAT event on Oct 1 & 2 is up on the Local Sightings calendar! It’s free and will happen in Cal Anderson Park, near the fountain and the 10th & Denny entrance. Come on by! Also check out our Facebook event.
Local animators premiere 3rd installment four-year wall animation project Wallrus, an animated wall project lasting four years and involving 8 animators, continues in its third installment on Saturday, Oct 1st and Sunday, Oct 2nd, 9AM-6PM in a special Local Sightings Film Festival event in Seattle’s Carl Anderson Park. Local animator Tess Martin will direct a [...]