Innovative Animation Week 1

This week we looked at Blu, a graffiti artist, who turns his graffiti into animation. He incorporates not just his art into the animation but the area in which it is done as well. He doesn't limit himself to one location either and can change area as he sees fit. His work seems energetic in how it is done as you can see some of the previous line work while the animation plays. Below is a link to his website which shows his work.

http://blublu.org/

After we looked at Blu's work we were then split into groups, we were the largest group with 5 people as such we had a few plans, we stuck to the one of doing a circle. We felt that this was the best way to capture Blu's style and his way of morphing one thing into another.

We ended up elaborating on our circle idea turning into the world being hit by a comet. I feel like there is a bit of humour to the piece which isn't far fetched for the style we were going for. I think it would have been fairly easy to expand upon our work if we wanted, as the hardest part was making sure the group could gather to all play a part in the making of the piece. I found this type of animation interesting because it's not typical. I had never even thought of surface animation until I saw Blu's work, I will have to look into it more in the future.

Finished piece