ILX Art Gallery: Tregaskin Memorial Wing (do not read if you hate me)

You realise it's too good to stop now?

this is all digital I assume...? you wanna talk slow, I've recently embarked on a stop-motion animation project ayiyiyi

At my current work rate doing the rest of the storyboard would take about 2 years. Which is sad coz I liked the story line.

I started it the old fashioned way, with tracing paper and ink! (the bit where the curtains blow open is hand drawn) which was actually quicker than digital but scanning it and digitising was just completely infuriating.

I can't imagine how long stop motion would take!

yeah we've been working out the technical kinks for months, I think we have like 30 seconds of test material lol

here's the first thing I've finished in awhile

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8006/7243419170_3f2756ac3f_z.jpg

Mayan synths! I love it!

If I'd done the animation properly (I put an image every 3 frames instead of every frame) I'd only have had 30 seconds. But I reckoned the jerkiness looked alright as it was in time with the music.

Is yr stop motion thing a music video? You might try that to stretch it out.

yeah I'm working with one of the other band members who's a film editor/animator, we have a dope sheet and everything. turns out I just have really complicated ideas tho lol. at this rate we will be done in 10 years

what animation app did you use...?

I feel really dumb now coz I didn't even know what a dope sheet was before I read that. I suppose because I'm drawing it all out rather than shooting it, I don't need to worry about camera angles and things. That sounds so complicated. Your drawings are so detailed I would love to see your animations, but I can imagine it would take forever.

I used freeware called Pencil, which I don't recommend. It's crashy as hell, it won't seem to load more than 15 seconds of animations at a time, it likes to lose layers and move things about without asking you. I ended up doing all the actual coding in TextEdit and just using it as a compiler. I then had to chuck all these 10 second blips into iMovie and add the soundtrack, and iMovie just destroys the quality - it was originally done in HD, but you can't tell that by what iMovie export. I don't think I'd do another project in Pencil, I'd like to find something more reliable. If I ever did anything again, which I'm not sure I would.

Then again, maybe I should be less ambitious and do 10 second blips that are just animations of regular drawings.

ugh that sounds pretty irritating :(

stop-motion's gonna be a lot of collaged elements for the most part, but there are some things (people/characters, primarily) that I'm going to need to draw and figure out how to animate, we'll see.

hey beautiful art-making ilxors, i am no pixar, but if you need custom software for labor-saving on the animation, please say what would be handy, and maybe i can throw something together?

Oh! I did not see your kind offer. Basically, I don't need software, I need an army of about 300 poorly paid Korean animators, or the approximation thereof.

Anyway, here is an SEA ARCH. I'm sure you know how happy SEA ARCHES make me, there was a whole thread about it once.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7109/7427541022_54156c8a18_o.jpg

I HAVE THE HIRETH TODAY, REALLY BADLY.

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8446/7908323658_db8bfa51d2_o.jpg

I do not know when I will be back in Kernow and this makes me unspeakably sad. I am craving the sea so badly I can almost taste the salt on my lips.

are those salt columns? i was just reading about them

No, they're just granite that's been really really eaten away by wind/wave action. That's near Lands End, which is sticking right out into the Atlantic with nothing to take the blow, so the granite ends up getting carved into these really strange shapes that look like odd pillars.

nature is so cool.

Wow, I wasn't aware of that area at all but the columns look very cool. Easter Island meets the Stone Forest of the Lena River.

Did the animation ever get closer?

Lovely, soul soothing blues.

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8448/7973523842_ba7cb1a601_o.jpg

CYMRU.

Look I can draw places that are not in Cornwall, see?

i love that

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8177/7986515520_e5368d1d3a_o.jpg

MEGALITH.

(Stanton Drew stone circle, near Bristol.)

maen hir

cymru looking kinda escher-esque

sea arch one is also v nice

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8182/7989564525_b2df139627_o.jpg

Basically, I can't stop reading Fuck Yeah Fluid Dynamics and learning all about the crazy psychedelic swirling patterns generated by, like, Karman Vortex Streets and stuff.

(I made a little mistake in the physics at the bottom of the flow but I'm just going to have to live with that.)

ILX Art Gallery: Tregaskin Memorial Wing (do not read if you hate me)

al the ships in darkness

whats the mistake?

whats a karman vortex street?

Tomorrow I'm going to try to draw Kelvin-Heimholtz clouds which are the most trippy and insane weather formations that look like fractal waves.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8e/KHI.gif

These things break my brain, like, the physics behind them is so simple and yet WOW happens with them...

http://andyrussell.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/kelvin-helmholtz.jpg

The Karman Vortex Street is the pattern of oscillating turbulence formed by a flow of wind or fluid over a stable object.

wow that's crazy

looks kind of like the julia set

That is BEAUTIFUL work!!! It really evokes nature. I like the one with the rain in it.

Thanks, glad you are enjoying them. I love rain, I should probably try to draw it more often.

yeah they're all awesome, you should publish this

wow @ the kelvin-heimholtz gif, hypnotised

love the cymru painting - love how it turns something so solid in the stone into a building that's so crooked and unstable-seeming that it could be made out of bits of wood...

Orkney is full of mountains and sea lochs and megaliths and sea arches and I think I love it here, with its misty purple islands lurking in the background.

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8312/8018789178_75c06867cd_o.jpg

I DON'T REALLY KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH ALL THESE LIGHTHOUSES.

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8322/8022764218_2cccf14eae_o.jpg

(Also I drew the most amazing sea arch yesterday but I do not have a scanner up here.)

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8032/8033395239_dd81b6d62a_o.jpg

THESE ARE THE MOUNTAINS THAT TRIED TO KILL ME.

Going home on the last ferry tonight. Don't really want to. ;_;

I DON'T KNOW HOW SOMEONE MANAGED TO TAKE A PHOTO FROM THE INSIDE OF MY HEAD. AND YET THEY DID.

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m38zolOIFs1rsvop4o1_500.jpg

Zowie! Is that some sort of Bridget Riley installation?

It's PS1, so who knows.

I think that's my new inspiration for interior decor

Not included: the man with the ginger strawberry blond ponytail.

Well I don't often find them at the thrift store, I'll say that.

They're apparently two for a penny in the thrift stores of Cornwall.

Can I show you my favorite wacky psychedelic piece of bs I found at a thrift store? It's this embroidered flower tiger, hidden under plexiglass

http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg407/scaled.php?server=407&filename=img2956o.jpg&res=landing

Wow, that tiger, too, he is trapped in my dreams.

I like that pic var 2: liked it when it was b+w, now the colours suit it yeah!

and now my phone has stopped crashing...

not the last one, obv, the cliffside one, you know

I'm confused.

But here, have a sea arch. Orkney has a sea arch pretty much every 500 yards or so.

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8042/8044130623_d24dab6543_o.jpg

I like your new no outlines stuff.