{"id":35899,"date":"2014-04-22T21:05:48","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T13:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/?p=35899"},"modified":"2014-07-04T16:16:32","modified_gmt":"2014-07-04T08:16:32","slug":"inspiration-moving-drawings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/2014\/04\/22\/inspiration-moving-drawings\/","title":{"rendered":"Inspiration: Moving drawings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/49112328?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h6>Ode to Lumpy, Pout Melody by Lilli Carre<\/h6>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/88836644?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h6>Plumb by Caleb Wood<\/h6>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/34022304?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h6>Jenni Rope: Tiikerimuuri<\/h6>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to start a new format to document my discoveries, and like any experiment that I do over here, I&#8217;m just going to wing it and see how it goes! If you&#8217;re wondering how my research and mind works, this is exactly it \u2013 I jump around from one thing to another and bite on it, gnawing at it until I am satisfied. It&#8217;s not the most organized way to search for things, but I love how it leads to interesting discoveries. So hang on while I take you on a quick detour of how my neurons get all fired up!<\/p>\n<p>Ready? Go!<\/p>\n<p>So the theme for this post started after I stumbled on <strong>moving drawings<\/strong> when I was over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rookiemag.com\" target=\"_blank\">Rookie Mag<\/a>. I visit their rad website every few months and after reading a few of their great articles this time around, I clicked over to their contributor&#8217;s list. One of them was <a href=\"http:\/\/lillicarre.com\" target=\"_blank\">Lilli Carre<\/a> (which we interviewed <a title=\"Artist interview: Lilli Carr\u00e9\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/2010\/09\/10\/artist-interview-lilli-carre\/\" target=\"_blank\">previously<\/a>), which lead me to her personal <a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/lillicarre.com\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>, which then lead me to discover her series of <a href=\"http:\/\/lillicarre.com\/gifs\">moving drawings<\/a>. I then found out that she was the co-producer of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eyeworksfestival.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation<\/a>, which brings together abstract animations, unconventional character animations along with old classics and unearthing new talent. *GASP*<\/p>\n<p>Then, I read this interview by Tim O&#8217;Shea with Lilli and Andrew <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingwithtim.com\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/03\/lilli-carre-on-eyeworks-festival\/\" target=\"_blank\">on how they started their festival<\/a> (and if you&#8217;re thinking about starting your own, it&#8217;s a good read!) And then, from their <a href=\"http:\/\/eyeworksfestival.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tumblr website<\/a>, I discovered videos like <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/10240857\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/34022304\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a> by Jenni Rope, which I absolutely love. It made me feel like a kid again, where my eyeballs were almost glued to the screen!<\/p>\n<p>Then I did a quick search about moving illustrations and stop motion and it landed me on the Dragonframe site, which lead me to one of the best stop-motion animations that I&#8217;ve ever seen: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dragonframe.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/oh-yeah-wow-elliot-the-bull\/\" target=\"_blank\">Elliot the Bull by Oh Yeah Wow<\/a>. And not only do they show the final work, they also share the process, with pictures to boot!<\/p>\n<p>And if you want to start making your own moving drawings, here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/adobe-hed-inspiration\/pdfs\/87\/stop_motion_animation.pdf?1351878775\">PDF tutorial by the folks over at Adobe<\/a>, and if you&#8217;re looking to experiment with just your iPhone, then check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/vine.co\" target=\"_blank\">Vine app<\/a> (it&#8217;s limited to just 6 seconds, but it&#8217;s got a really simple interface for you to get started!)<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Moving drawings look like a really fun medium to experiment with \u2013 I&#8217;m really drawn to the abstract quality of some of the videos and GIFs that I&#8217;ve seen and really look forward to experiment with it in the future. My ultimate takeaway from all of this is that animations and moving stills aren&#8217;t just rooted in mainstream genres or techniques like anime or stop-motion \u2013 there&#8217;s so many ways to express oneself that the possibilities are endless. I know that I might be discovering this late (yes, I can hear some of you snorting your disbelief at this!) but discovering abstract storytelling was eye-opening, to say the least \u2013 the ones done by Lilli Carre and Jenni Rope are just <em>amazing<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you have some moving drawings to share or if you have any tips\/leads to share on where to learn more, I&#8217;d love for you to leave a link so that I can check it out! \ud83d\ude42<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> &#8230; <a title=\"Inspiration: Moving drawings\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/2014\/04\/22\/inspiration-moving-drawings\/\" aria-label=\"More on Inspiration: Moving drawings\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_generate-full-width-content":""},"categories":[291,75,92,132],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35899"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35899"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38027,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35899\/revisions\/38027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}