The stop animation take FOREVER!! but the results are gorgeous. Finishing up with finaling touches. Enjoy the screenshots. :)
Saturday, April 17, 2010
Monday, April 12, 2010
Final project: ritual and time
There are many symbols of time in my piece. Besides that fact that everything depicted is terminal (we all eventually run out of time) the main symbols of time are the fire and the time-span of the creatures life. The Indian legend I am basing my piece a bit loosely on is about a young girl, an older woman and a little boy, cut off from their tribe and isolated in the forest. The girl became pregnant and the woman angry at her daughter and unable to support another child, she threw the baby in the water to drown in. the baby was in her daughters arms the next day. she then threw the baby into a great blazing fire. the next day the daughter still had it, young and healthy in her arms. The mother then buried it alive in a deep hole in the forest. When the next day it was in her daughters arms, healthy and alive. She figured they were blessed and this child was the Spirit Child. Kind of like the Jesus and Mary story.
What i find interesting in this story is a)the immortality and 'timeless' baby and b) the visual image in the head the story created it of it being thrown into the fire.
What I have taken from this story is a type of twisted infant resurrection. What if the baby did burn in the fire and the daughter distraught tried to bring it back to life. I created this ominous setting of the girl at night. Dragging a palm to make the fire to carry out the ceremony. My choice of outfit and character is meant to compliment the firelight and add the other worldliness of the piece. I don't want it deeply rooted by Indian Folklore rather influenced by it.
By an unfortunate turn, my previous plan of filming her part in HD then the zombie baby in stop animation has turned into an entire stop animation. So to adapt I'm making her part more abstract than literal. Hopefully viewer will understand what it going on. I might use text to aid them in discerning events.
What i find interesting in this story is a)the immortality and 'timeless' baby and b) the visual image in the head the story created it of it being thrown into the fire.
What I have taken from this story is a type of twisted infant resurrection. What if the baby did burn in the fire and the daughter distraught tried to bring it back to life. I created this ominous setting of the girl at night. Dragging a palm to make the fire to carry out the ceremony. My choice of outfit and character is meant to compliment the firelight and add the other worldliness of the piece. I don't want it deeply rooted by Indian Folklore rather influenced by it.
By an unfortunate turn, my previous plan of filming her part in HD then the zombie baby in stop animation has turned into an entire stop animation. So to adapt I'm making her part more abstract than literal. Hopefully viewer will understand what it going on. I might use text to aid them in discerning events.
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