For this week in ‘Introduction to Animation’ we had to team up in groups of five, and take a trip to two or more art galleries. From the galleries, we had to agree on one artist that uses objects within their work (and also interested all of us), and create a 20 second animation that is in reaction to their art paired with a PowerPoint.
The artist that we chose is Mark Dion, who piqued our curiosity the most due to his rather political approach to art, and his questioning of pseudosciences. I was particularly interested in his piece ‘Tate Thames Dig’, 1999. Below is the animation that my group and I created together.
The ‘making’ of the group was not too challenging! Our group worked very well together and were also organised. We initially started off with writing a short biography of Dion to get a better grasp of his work. We then proceeded with planning and researching (including making a moodboard). Using the moodboard for inspiration, one of our group members created a base animation, and the rest of us animated over it.
The project was a rather fulfilling experience. It was nice to work in a group for the first time for a more lengthy project, as everyone contributed in equal amounts, and we were able to create the animation smoothly. It was very new for me to create an animation based off of an object artist but that was a very small obstacle!
Here is a link to our presentation below!