Once Upon A Spacetime - rewards of the week
Back in 2008, I made this stop motion animation called Once Upon A Spacetime for my final year Media Arts project at RMIT. The story is a retelling of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, combined with snippets of The Odyssey, Poe’s Descent into the Maelstrom, Tennyson’s The Kraken, The Wizard of Oz and Moby Dick.
I had a hell of a year, and may have bitten off slightly more than I could chew with the project, but am still incredibly proud of it. Each paper model was handprinted using linocuts, solvent transfer and lithography, then cut out with a scalpel. The animation itself was shot on a multiplane unit (essentially a series of glass shelves for the models to be laid out on with a camera positioned above) unit with my Canon digital SLR. I’d set up the images, take one shot, move them oh so slightly, take another shot and so on.
Thousands of shots later I had all my footage, edited everything together in Final Cut Pro, panicked at the rendering time, edited some more, panicked some more and so on.
I printed up some editions and exhibited a few stills from the animation at Pigment Gallery, in the black and white (shades of grey) exhibition. The remainders of the editions shown are now available as rewards for my Pozible project, which is currently 10% funded. They’re $15, $20 and $25 respectively. You should absolutely, drunkenly pledge them tonight.
Once Upon A Spacetime - rewards of the week
Back in 2008, I made this stop motion animation called Once Upon A Spacetime for my final year Media Arts project at RMIT. The story is a retelling of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, combined with snippets of The Odyssey, Poe’s Descent into the Maelstrom, Tennyson’s The Kraken, The Wizard of Oz and Moby Dick.
I had a hell of a year, and may have bitten off slightly more than I could chew with the project, but am still incredibly proud of it. Each paper model was handprinted using linocuts, solvent transfer and lithography, then cut out with a scalpel. The animation itself was shot on a multiplane unit (essentially a series of glass shelves for the models to be laid out on with a camera positioned above) unit with my Canon digital SLR. I’d set up the images, take one shot, move them oh so slightly, take another shot and so on.
Thousands of shots later I had all my footage, edited everything together in Final Cut Pro, panicked at the rendering time, edited some more, panicked some more and so on.
I printed up some editions and exhibited a few stills from the animation at Pigment Gallery, in the black and white (shades of grey) exhibition. The remainders of the editions shown are now available as rewards for my Pozible project, which is currently 10% funded. They’re $15, $20 and $25 respectively. You should absolutely, drunkenly pledge them tonight.
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