What are you interested in and why?

what you will be investigating? 

The vehicle with which you are to do it?

I am interested in creating a beautiful and effective piece, that uses colour and form to draw in the viewer. I am doing this through paint-on-glass animation. This is a form of sop-motion animation where oil is moved around a sheet of glass before it dries to mimic movement whilst taking photographs to capture said movement.

I am doing this because I am always looking for differently methods to explore and because I am currently doing the alternative animation course which really reignited my interest in stop-motion animation. I love the fact that in animation there are different limits to creativity than there are in live action filmmaking and while I love both, I want to challenge myself.

I was planning on doing some tests of the technique before this presentation but I’m currently really poor and oil paint is really expensive, so I have to wait a bit before I can purchase the paint and the sheets of glass. I also have to source a light box that I can lay the glass over and which will help bring out the images that I paint. I plan to do the tests during the mid-semester break. These tests are critical as the technique is daunting and any mistake made could mean I have to redo an entire scene.