Project structure update
Explore the Border land at the cusp of contemporary animation, craft-cgi.
Applying basic principles of cgi to material craft
Applying craft thinking to cgi
Similarities-differences
Findings
Initial research focus: An exploration of contemporary animation on the cusp of cgi
modelling and craft materiality.
Similar-differences and different similarities between craft and cgi in animation.
Initial research focus: An exploration of contemporary animation on the cusp of cgi
modelling and craft materiality.
Similar-differences and different similarities between craft and cgi in animation.
Exploration of material craft in animation
Craft thinking: an outline
Exploration of Craft thinking in stop-motion Animation (Practice)
The basic principles of cgi modelling in contemporary animation
Applying craft thinking to cgi/ cgi principles to material craft
Light: material handling and uncertainty in practice.
Constructed and found systems.
Light: material handling and uncertainty in practice.
Constructed and found systems.
Constructed systems: cgi and stop motion animation.
Found systems: nature and the natural elements: 'location c' studies
Working with natural elements, form and pattern in practice.
Working with error as a method of revealing a systems structure.
Error as a method of discovering structure and pattern. (the craftsman) Working with error as a method of revealing a systems structure.
Interrupting pattern to reveal systems structure/limits
Applying craft thinking, the workmanship of risk, error to cgi : 'glitch' animation
Locating points of resistance in animation practice.
Sensing Structure through pattern and rhythm in practice.
Projected and not projected pattern.
Non projected pattern: african fractals: Eglash : ' Spira' animation
Agency and the origins of pattern and structure formation Eglash
Projected pattern: Apophenia (seeing things in pattern) and mystification in
animation. Theory of mind: Bateson.
schizophrenia (metaphor/object confusion) Bateson
Natural elements, random pattern and its deployment in Visual/special effects
traditions of linear narrative animation.
traditions of linear narrative animation.
Conclusion
Methodology
Practice-theory Model (literature-experimentation)
"The way I think"
The Oscillation mechanism in the double feedback loop 'Organima' Animation
Iteration and Emergence in research 'Helix' Animation
Method: Working with Error in constructed and found systems
Cybernetics systems theory
Working with error and exploring pattern, rhythm and structure in animation. Tool: the animation spectrum (orthodox/experimental) from a cybernetic systems perspective.
Practice: experimental animation.
