COP 3 Week 3: Proposal Update

Prepared materials

Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.

Themes
- Aesthetic
- Social/Cultural

Specific Subjects
- Rhythm
- Animated performance
- Synesthesia

Question
Exploring rhythm in animated performance. An investigation of process and outcome in audio-visual experience. (?)

Theorists
-Paul Wells
-Maureen Furniss
-Gilles Deleuze (dance and movement-image)
-Michel Schion

References
- Kinetic geniuses: Norman McLaren, Charlie Chaplin, Oskar Fischinger
- Optical art - psychedelic: pattern repetition, rotation of colours
- Ub Iwerks, Richard Williams, Sylvain Chomet
- Stanley Kubrick's Space Odyssey Stargate Sequence (VFX)
- Music videos: 'Backwards' by Tame Impala, 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds' by George Dunning, Ori Toor, Jesse Kanda

Content Proposal
- Examine the relationship between function and aesthetic in choreographic dynamics
- Investigate timing and spacing in cartoon animation
- Mickey-mousing and repetitive pattern. How order can cause disruption?
- Explore the extremes in plasticity of image relative to music
- Subjectivity of experience: abstraction and clarity of image to the audience

Practical Direction
Create character animation and environment based on drawn sounds