Monday 16 March 2009

some development

These are all bits of stuff for early ideas as well as some of the drawings that lead to the final movie.











Monday 16 February 2009

Norman McLaren & Len Lye

Norman McLaren - Dots 1940



McLaren on youtube

McLaren on wikipedia


Len Lye - Free Radicals 1958



Lye on youtube

Lye on wikipedia


Whilst working on this project I want to constantly keep the work by these two men in mind. I love the visual styles that they created and how it syncs with sound. I'm going to try and assimilate their styles and unashamedly reference them and use them for inspiration. The reason I want to do this is because the material that these guys created is amazing and way ahead of it's time.

Both artists works instantly made me think of a bunch of music videos from more recent times. Here's just a few examples from the past few decades:



The Residents - Its a Man's Man's Man's World 1984

(note the tubes on the blue guys face, this is reminiscent of McLaren & Lye scratching and drawing directly on top of film)


Takako Minekawa - Milk Rock 1997

(this video echoes back to a lot of McLarens work, look at Dots earlier on in this post)


MIA - Boyz 2007

(another modern, digital variant of the material that Lye and McLaren were producing over 50 years ago)


In my next post I'm going to put up some scans and maybe some screen shots from the roughs I've been working on so far in Flash.

Take care until then !
T

Tuesday 10 February 2009

First Post

This blog is here for me to put up my research and development for the promotional project that I am working on for the Hunterian Museum (in the Royal College of Surgeons in London). So far I have contacted the museum in regards to the project to see if I can get any input in regards to what they would like to see but they are very busy people and we've been unable to arrange a meeting yet.

In this first post I'm just going to update you as to whats been going on so far.

I've been working towards creating a series of 5 to 6 second long indents designed to promote the Hunterian Museum. The shorts would me made to be distributed "virally" on sites like youtube, facebook and myspace (as well as other popular social networking sites). They would be aimed mostly towards web savvy young people but essentially towards everybody on the internet.

Over the next couple of days I'm going to be posting some of the material I've been researching for inspiration as well as the development work that I've been producing so far.

In the mean time, I'll leave you this scan from earlier today. It's taken from Albertus Seba's "Cabinet of Natural Curiosities".























Enjoy !

T