Wednesday 11 April 2012

Friday 6 April 2012

What you see is what you get

Experimental animation

'Abstract Animation' explores the use of not figurative forms and movement. Synchronisation of images and sound, the meaning of Abstract timing and movement does not need a narrative or characters , uses rhythm and paces , explores different points of view, goes in to depth regarding the overall idea. Explores the states of a materialisation on screen. Morphs from one object or emotion in to another in a seamless way. Can draw our attention to both big and small forms at the same time. Imitates what the sound could look like. Exists in to a non-dimensional distorted space. Thinks outside the box. Turns the box in to an oval and implodes with emptiness. Leaving us wondering and filled with questions with no easy answer. It is complex in a simple way. It looks like letters build from numbers in an alphabetical order and reverse. The tempo in the animation is felt by our own heartbeat be cause it is often the same. It takes your mind out side of your body and shows you the other side or what it could be like. Gives you a new law to consider. Seeing an abstract piece is like diving in to the unknown and even once you are in side you still don't know if you will be back to the "real" world. You start to feel unsatisfied by the normal everyday things and you feel that something is missing. Then you let it go and unleash the chaos that has been embed in to you from the start. No holding back now you must chose here or there, where everything can happen even when you least expect it to. You can have as much control or totally let yourself to the flow of space energy and continue to go past the barriers we have set here ourselves. Experiments are the only thing leading to a real discovery or even the creation of something completely new and unknown so far. It has all been an experiment at first, and now it has been developed and perfected, but never forget it was on the drawing board and in pieces on boring objects and shapes. You combine this with that and something new appears, just some additional tweaks and it can even be operational. How can you know what a chocolate lemon tastes like if you don't make one. I feel that with Abstract animation not even the sky is a limit. It can go way past that physically visible distance easily and as fast as one second in to a given frame of a film. I much prefer to add some abnormal features to my backgrounds or even to the characters as it makes you see a new way of telling a story or showing an emotion. It is the best way for me to communicate an idea to the viewer. My dream has always been to be able to show to the normal person what I see in my nightmares and night projections. To take them on a journey to a place they never knew existed. I know it sounds cheesy, but that is just what it is, a real trip that people only get when they are on some hallucinogen drugs. Really it makes me feel pain to see so many closed minds, knowing what a human can do and achieve if he just lets loose and relaxes his body. Just leaving the mind scatter in all possible directions and gather memories of lost and long forgotten places. People are surprised of how time stops or slows down or speeds up. That's because there is no time, it is just an illusion a bar we set there not knowing how many things we loose while doing so. I don't blame no one, if I could I would probably do the same and someone would be writing this addressed to me. Never the less there is still a big percentage of open minded people who are doing what ever they are good at to infect as many as possible with the virus called ART. And this brings me to the point of actual Art of Animation, and Experimental in particular. Does it really have a deeper meaning or is it just what it looks to be. Is the creator of the animation acting like a messenger from another dimension, being brought here to shout us that we need to change? Or is he just a differently raised child of a different time, trying to earn a living? The questions just lead to more questions, what I know for sure is that Abstract Animation Art is a way of expressing your thoughts and desires with no words. It does not matter if the point doesn't get across, it matters that you as a creator felt the rush to do it and have done it. Importing stock from "there to here".
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