My Research, Ideas and Inspiration

When I was working on my essay I chose question 3 which was to discuss and analyze the work of two animators Max Fleischer and Paul Driessen looking at their styles and techniques, also their use of drawings as a dynamic form in their animation. In particular I am going to look at Max Fleischer cartoon ‘Popeye’ and Paul Driessen’s film ‘3 Misses’ because their styles are very different.

Paul Driessen's Animation Work


"Home on the Rails"

'Air'

Paul is famous for using horizontal lines. He uses it in the film ‘Air’ e.g.. Fig 3 it’s use is to emphasize the character and the scene he is portraying. The horizontal line helps to emphasize passivity in the bird. The bird appears to accept his fate before he dies. The horizontal line is shown with the bird perched on it looking downward with a sad expression. His blob like drawing is apparent. In figure 4 the fishes are trevelling towards the line gasping for air before they die. Paul is famous for his suspense.

Popeye

Max Flescher's Creations of Popeye and Betty Boop.
"Max Fleischer’s style can be associated with Expressionism and Surrealism. Max has been able" to capture the sensitive and lovable nature of Popeye rather than his physical form.

Introduction at Drawing Workshop

I've started my first introduction at the drawing workshop with Lewis Campbell.

My Animation Exercises

Below there are some examples of my animations. I learnt a lot about the timing and movement.

Kicking a football into windiow

Flower / Rose Glowing

By Me 

Readaption of Poem into a Storyboard

This was a group project I worked with Tracey, Demitri and Aaron. We read the poems and chose 'Star and Chain' to adapt into a storyboard. We spilt up the tasks between the group. I worked mainly on backgrounds.



After looking at different groups storyboards we had to chose another story to adapt.

Tracey, Demitri and I worked on a story called 'Cities and Disire'.

Lip Sync Technique

In Tuesday's animation workshop I was working on 'Lip Sync' Technique with Naomi. We chose soundtrack 2 which is the second scene in the animation above of a character with tiger eyebrows and funny eyes and mouth. 

Drawing Poses and Other Drawings

In the drawing workshop with Lewis I've drawn poses of classmates as silhouettes that show emotion. The top picture is about drawing random lines when listening to music.

Tone Drawing

I started drawing with tone, shadows, light and dark along with details. It doesn't matter if it's not perfect. It's just an exercise and it's fun to draw.