Final cut of Translations now online complete with audio by Jacob C. Hammes remastered in the studio. Translations was originally shown at Three Walls in Chicago as part of Chasing Two Rabbits a screening / performance featuring collaborations between animators and musicians. The audio component was first performed live and Jacob produced a studio version which has now been added to the video. We will be showing this animation next week in Brooklyn at Fountain Studios as part of the exhibition Chawn-eoiserie with David Constable. If you are in New York / Brooklyn area next week please come check it out in person.
Translations, projected / performed live at Three Walls as part of Chasing Two Rabbits. Thank you to Jacob C. Hammes for his awesome musical accompaniment / score. Big thank you to Andrew Rigsby, Travis Saul and R James Healy for their help with all things animation, Maya & Final Cut. Also many thanks to Shannon Stratton and Sonia Yoon for organizing the event and asking me to take part.
first draft of the new animation for threewalls screening on friday, i’m really happy with some bits of this, other bits need to be tweaked, but i’ve got like 3-4 more sequences ready to plug in and a few more that haven’t been made in maya yet, but i’m liking the retro, glitchy feel to the visuals and loving the unfolding cubes….. now if only i could make these in real life… if you wanna see this finished and projected on a wall with awesome musical accompaniment hustle on over to threewalls on friday.
here’s a sneak preview of one of the sequences for the upcoming screening at Three Walls on friday, it cuts off a bit a the beginning and runs a bit fast but i’ll fix that for friday. Events details are as follows:
Chasing Two Rabbits is a special event curated by Sonia Yoon and Shannon Stratton that pairs animators with live performances by sound artists and musicians. Inspired by the experimental films of Norman McLaren, who combined abstract imagery (including scratching and painting into the film stock in earlier work, as well as paper cut-outs and live action and dance) with imaginative music and sound, Chasing Two Rabbits, acts to pair artists in both genres to produce a unique event where, rather than leaving art to illustrate a story, perhaps sound and vision will illuminate each other.
The program for the evening will include animations by Gracen Brilmyer, Peter Burr, Tom Burtonwood, Dana Carter, Jodie Mack, Tracy Taylor, and Rebecca Schoenecker with sound by The Chicago Phonographers, Chris Hammes, Eric Zeigenhagen, Steve Lacy, Frank Van Duerm, Kotoka Suzuki, Cait Stevens, George Monteleone and Broken Chooser.
Wow. this took forever to get in a complete form, scanned in and sequenced. somewhere along the road i lost frames 52 – 55 prior to scanning them in. i’m sure they are around here somewhere but the fact they haven;’t surfaced in day to day activity suggests they may be gone…
eventually i’ll add some noise to this and sign off on it once and for all. i’m pretty happy with this but it’s more important to me as a stepping stone, a marker leading to other cooler, more exciting and mind bending ideas.
i have to say after a month or so of working on this piece i;m not really all that happy with it. in the spirit of keeping this public “studio” honest and complete i decided to post the animation. it’s hard to say exactly what irks me about this, i think when i started out i didn’t really think about how the different frames would relate in sequence, each frame by itself is exciting and stimulating, but seen together in sequence they don’t really convey the idea i have been shooting for. i culled them down to 7 or 8 frames that seemed to work well together from a possible group of 50 or so. without much further ado i’m going to pull this one off the animation stand and start fresh.
