COP Animation

For my context of practice animation i want to show how drawing is the process that underpins all artwork because this is the idea i am trying to get across in my essay. For the sequencing of my animation i am thinking of having a shot of an artist drawing a model and then it shows the paper turn into a 3d workspace such as maya where the artist is modelling the subject with a 3d modelling tool. This is supposed to show that modern technology is not a replacement for drawing it is just a helpful tool as the process and skill of drawing is all knowledge inside the artists head and if the artist can draw the model he should be able to model the subject given he is able to use the program effectively.

Essay Plan

Essay Plan

Intro:

Techniques in which digital cannot offer and traditional hand drawn can, linked to aura.

Technique/quality 1 – higher sense of connection to the viewer due to the animation being essentially straight from the animators pencil to the viewer. Reference Frederick Back as his animations connect with the viewer very intimately

Technique/quality 2 – traditional animation has a sense of charm and likeability when compared with digital animation. Quote from Paul wells book “Drawing for Animation” talking about Joanna Quinn’s work on a “Charmin” toilet rolls advert and how her style of traditional hand drawn animation has the soft, charming qualities, which are hard to achieve through digital animation, “Joanna Quinn’s distinctive drawing style has become the brand identity for Charmin toilet rolls. The softness and ease of the bear drawings imply the same characteristics in the product itself.”

Technique/quality 3 – drawing is a core process in all animation regardless of whether the final outcome is digital or hand drawn therefore drawing will always be a necessary skill in creating animations. 

Academic sources to reference: 
 Paul Wells - Drawing for animation

Wells, Paul, Joanna Quinn, and Les Mills. Basics Animation. Lausanne: AVA Academia, 2008. Print.

Paul Wells - Understanding animation

Wells, Paul. Understanding Animation. London: Routledge, 1998. Print.

Walter Benjamin - Age of mechanical reproduction

 Marxists.org,. "Walter Benjamin". N.p., 2016. Web. 14 Jan. 2016.

Andrew Chong - Digital animation

Chong, Andrew. Digital Animation. Lausanne, Switzerland: AVA Academia, 2008. Print.

Jane Pilling - 2d and beyond

 Pilling, Jayne. Animation. Crans-Près-Céligny: RotoVision, 2001. Print.

Animations to analyse:

Joanna Quinn - Wife of Bath