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Futurism influence

I'm repeled by many aspects of the futurist manifesto. The aspects of futurism that I want to take influence from are depictions of movement and fragmentation.

Juan Gris, Glass of beer and playing cards

This is a fragmented image of beer and textures and colours that complement eachother, it uses cubist perspective and abstrction to show elements of the scene that would not all be visible from one point. I want to make my annimation influenced by this cubist/futurist fragmentation. The theme of beer in this painting relates to my work, I take inspiration from how to represent a glass of beer from a fragmented perspective.

Giacomo Balla Velocità paesaggio (speed landscape) 1913

Balla used futurism principles to abstract this landscape to show speed (of cars passing) I want to use a futurist style in my animation, and even though the futurist paintings are 2D still painints depicting movement and I'm making an animation that is depicting movement by actually moving, I want to use the futurist ideas of how to abstract the deptiction of movement in 2D, and then extend this to an actual moving animation.

Giacomo Balla La mano del violinista (The hand of the violinist) 1912

Another way that futurism depicts movement is by showing multiple images in one frame, like a multi-exposure photo, or like viewing several frames of an animation at once. I want to use this idea of futurism exposing multiple exposures, and extend it to my animation, to depict how futurists would depict the same thing if they also could have multiple frames.

Marcel Duchamp Nu descendant un Escalier (Nude Descending a Staircase) 1912.

Duchamp's famous painting shows the kind of fragmentation and simultaneous representation of movement that I would like to take influence for in my animation.

I want to draw futurist abstracted fragmented figures for my animation and move different fragments in my animation independantly. I'm not up to knowing how to do this with technical animation skills, but that's what I imagine wanting to do.

I'd want fragmented pictures, and each of the different fragments is animated separately. (a bit like in the nude desending a staircase, but animated - in addition to the abstracted movement caught in every frame.) each frame would be an abstracted depiction of movement. As well as all the frames moving as animation, each still frame is an abstracted represtentation of futurist inspired movement depiction.

Thats what I want to do, but I'm feeling very overwhelmed by not even knowing the first thing about animation. All I can do is try, I might not be able to pull off my idea very well.

posted by nicole @ 12:40 pm