Experimental animation investigating the possibility of incorporating watercolour timelapse
*Above is the basic watercolour animation sequence for reference (without compost time-lapse painting footage)
My character design for this project would respond to the need to create an artistic experimental animation. Although, as an experimental animation, one usually comes with highly contextualized annotations, I still wish my finished work would be simply communicable just by visuals alone, and could be easily pleased by audiences of all types. Also, having a tangible character with a robust and explicit living story to tell is especially important for character design needs.
"The materiality of watercolour painting in an animated context - its ethereal nature and shifting form a perfect expression of the transient nature of childhood and nostalgia - especially when seen through a lens of tragedy narrative in an imperfect world."
As a result, this project responds to the need to create an artistic experimental animation, which investigates the possibilities of watercolour, with its moving pigments in water droplets, as an animated medium. As entropy is a one-way trip, the watercolour droplets dissolving in water cannot be undone, and no two droplets will generate the same pattern; the same goes for all lived lives — each is unique and cannot be undone. As a result, the fateless shape of a single water droplet perfectly reflects the unpredictable nature of life when dissolving in time.
Her name is Polina, and she was a ten-year-old girl once full of energy. And this animation is made to dedicate all those innocent children who were lost in military conflicts.
Rough Ideas & Silhouette Drawings
Rough Ideas & Silhouette Drawings
Full Body Acting Poses & Materiality
Full Body Acting Poses & Materiality
Full Body Acting Poses & Materiality
Character Turn-around
Anima
