This week I became more interested in animation as a medium and how it essentially comes down to shortcuts and illusions. I wanted to explore if making changes to the key-frames in their pacing, sequence, silhouette, form and background would alter what the animation is supposed to depict – a simple action of running. The resulting video is a collection of iterations which are mostly absurd but often humorous.
I thought about Adhocism and how an object is a collection of several parts which may or may not make sense when taken out of the whole. Animation, particularly frame animation is also a sum of parts. Each part has to be drawn separately for the whole to exist but when we watch the final outcome – the parts are made invisible. It’s almost as if the more undetectable, the more inconspicuous the parts are – the more effective is the animation.
I think, what I wanted to do the most through this week’s experiments is reveal the process of animation. By putting the original 10 key-frames through different iterations, I am attempting to show them as individual images and not a collective whole.