I took the previous gif I made, and translated it into a digital animation. This way I’d be able to use the procreate animation feature to easily make onion skins, and therefore trace a lot more quickly and easily. I started out by just copying exactly what I’d done in the pencil animation, but it evolved so much further because of the freedom I had to add or take things away from multiple frames. First I finished the animation with just the fingers growing, and I thought it looked a bit plain and boring. So I thought about ‘Growth’ again and instantly thought of trees growing, like the fingers did in my animation. This prompted me to add some very quickly drawn branches, and for the hand to end up being ‘planted’ in the ground, as a nice way to end the animation. Again, I’m quite pleased with this outcome. I developed, added to, and improved the previous pencil gif, I made a little journey of the growing fingers. Obviously the animation would look better if I hadn’t drawn it so q...
I started the Play and Process project by just going with the first word that jumped out at my from the list on the brief. I chose Growth. The first idea that came to my head was to make a short animation gif of a hand growing extra fingers. I was inspired by Japanese horror manga artist Junji Ito, who makes a lot of body horror artwork. In his work there are often scenes of the body being distorted, growing and morphing. I used this body horror idea, combined with growth, to come up with this idea. I chose a hand as the subject because it is a part of my body I could see, and use as reference, easily and quickly. In order to start making work quickly, I grabbed some paper and a pencil, without thinking too much about the medium I was working with. I did think about the fact that I made quite a lot of work quickly in the Level 5 final project using pencil, and I liked the outcome of those drawings. Using my own hand as reference, I started drawing my hand over and over, adding bit...