OUAN403 - Animation Skills:
After watching Cyriak's animations in our course studio room, I instantly became fond of this little animation titled "Baa". Not only did it bring an immediate smile to my face and plenty of chuckles amongst the class, I became quite attached to the way Cyriak uses a lot of repetition in his shorts.
According to "http://www.fastcompany.com"'s article: "The Cyriak Method", Cyriak Harris uses Adobe After Effects software to manipulate imported videos and photographs in different ways across different layers, thus building up a very strange, very beautiful and very subliminal piece of humourous animation.
However humourous it may to some - including myself - I notice a number of important messages that Cyriak brings through in his work. In Baa, the message that came through to me was the concept of what our world would look like and how animals would evolve if genetic cloning was popularised. The idea of the sheep is also relevant to this theory as this could relate to "Dolly", the first genetically cloned animal of whom was in fact a sheep.
Cyriak's quirky entertainment mixed with almost deadly and frightening messages both add up to make great animation in my opinion.
No comments:
Post a Comment