Because my artefact is a tangible inanimate object, a praxinoscope as a piece of jewellery, I put myself through the above exercise. I was searching for a direction that could help me imbue the object with some anthropomorphism quality to make it an animation piece rather than only an object that contained an animated sequence, thus potentially becoming only an illustration and not an animation, holding an experience of life.
Choosing the Fantasy genre was drawn from my references of miniatures used in fairy tales.
When musing over the change in a character I think the length of an explanatory video i might include in Studio4, needs to be longer than I had initially thought so as to achieve the notion of a meditative state.
This exercise also helped me imagine more organic shapes for the praxinoscope than what most others have made. I will sketch these ideas in the next steps of pre-prod.
By Cougar Wicce-Otter
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Published On: 26/07/2022