Since I want to work on the stop motion project in term two, I still have to come up with an idea for first term.

I have thought of looking at traditional hand drawn animation, but if so what would I draw? Now like I mentioned in my last digi post I have had quite a few “half-ideas” but nothing that would make a proper story for an animation or stop motion project. These ideas include robots and giants. Yes, awesome, right?? but what then?

For example I imagine a giant sitting in a field reading a book, sun is setting, people walking their dogs, maybe a few horses standing around and everyone just minding their own business. A yellowy, orange, pinkish colour scheme. Calm and peaceful. The surounding would be real footage, the gian drawn. Or I can see a giant reaching out and catching a plane, playing with human technologie like a kid would play with its toys.

Then when I was doing research for my diss I came up with this idea:

A robot mum reading a book to her children. The book being Romeo and Juliet. So then you would have a very sketchy, childishly animated version of Romeo and Juliet only that at the end everyone dies because the earth explodes. Kids and mum laughing. Turns out humans aka now robots no longer live on our planet. Mum walks to window to shut curtains and then out side you see earth almost completly destroyed by the sun.

So far so good, but non of these ideas got me excited enough to work on them for my final projects.

What followed were a few days of panic and existential crisis. Two days ago I had an epiphany. I was partly inspired by Nam June Paik who creates these amazing installations using television sets who I came across last year for some reaserch.

I don’t want to work on “just an animation”. I want it to be special and different. What I want to do is create an animation that spreads across several screens.  At the moment I’m thinking 3×3 for the final one. However, for a trial I’m thinking of a ball or circle going across all the screens in the digi lab. So start it at one end and have it move to the other. This means several animations that I have to get to sink so that it flows efortless and you forget that there is more than one screen involved. I’ll talk about my ideas what this animation could look like in the next post. But for now, sorry for all the spelling mistakes and good night!