Once I had the image I wanted to work with (Post 1) and a general structure/framework (Post 2) I began animating. I started by doing a few quick sketches to plan the motion path: As usual, the first one was for warm up but not very satisfying, the motion was too stiff, not much going on… Read more »
The work that I had done in preparation to the workshop was primarily finding the structure of the piece. In the past I have been resistant to the idea of writing scripts or producing story-boards, not because I think they are not important, but because they felt foreign as a form of putting the ideas for my… Read more »
Recently I was in Poland at the animation workshop run by Jerzy Kucia and this became the opportunity for me to invest some time concentrated on the practical project for my dissertation. It was an extraordinary experience, so many things happened during a short period of time and I am documenting them in a series of posts… Read more »
The following are 3 small experiments on Data Driven Drawings for the web. A line with D3.js and SVG I am using the d3 library and its easiness to visualize any kind of data to have the first look at my material. In this case, earthquake data from colombia gathered from Ingeominas and terrorist attacks data from the Centro Nacional… Read more »
Last week I attended an intensive workshop on how to build games using HTML5 canvas and JavaScript. Even though I am not so interested in creating video games per se, I learned a lot of tips and tricks that these guys use to make their games perform well on the web. Since I am not… Read more »
The web in its infinitely limited capacity provokes a lot of interesting challenges for someone like me trying to combine traditional forms of animation and Internet technology. One of the ideas I’ve been more curious about lately is modularity, how to push hand drawn animated frames into a generative system that can infinitely develop? Part of the answer… Read more »
It’s been almost 2 years since I came to Singapore to start my PhD, what has been of it so far is a lot of reading and writing and I miss the less analytical mindset in which I usually perform a creative act. This website is going to be my virtual temple where I can retreat and… Read more »
http://www.ubu.com/film/sharits_interview.html
Tuesday August 30, 2011 I will be presenting my work at my former school Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá.
I wanted to see how I was doing on my film by putting the latest stage of each cycle on top of the map/structure of the piece. Getting close to the end only a few weeks before picture-lock.