THEME
Play and Stillness
CONTEXT
Almost in all of animation has stillness. This week we need to create a work that include stillness thing. So I decided to created an animation that use movement things to set stillness things off to move in audience visual.
METHOD
I use 2D animation software to created an animation inside of a train.
RESPONSE
The final work I made is a train running in the city, but in audience visual, the train didn't moving and the city is moving. It is like the city is contrast of train，we all know the city cannot running, if it is running, then our visual is running. So actually, in this moment, something stillness in our visual is moving. It is the stillness mean in animation, stillness always not just mean quiet in animation, it might mean that character has many mental activities, might mean that there are some important things will happened, might mean it is the contrast of another element. Stillness is a general thing when animator creating animation. When there are something we can not explain that it is moving, like the work of this week I made, the camera is inside the train and moving with it, audience could not know that the train is moving. In this situation, we need to add something moving as a contrast. Like the city of my work.
Overall, stillness and movement are indispensable things in animations.
By Chemy Liu
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Published On: 03/06/2021