Kate Steciw

Kate Steciw uses hybridity with the clean, clear cut frames for her distorted looking paintings. 
such as here


I kind of think that her artwork is a kind of statement on society encouraging creativity, but then wanting to box it into a clean and organized file, you know. Creativity is good, but only to an extent.

The painting looks distorted and even disorienting because the frame is so cookie-cutter. I could use something like this effect in my artworks especially because my theme is dreams. This is VERY dream like and interesting. In my current animation that I'm working on, if I wanted it to be more dream like, I could use a texture that had this same sort of effect on the house, which is very clean looking.

I learned that hybridity can be a use of a bunch of different lines. Like how we learned about the meaning of different lines back in the film unit of Digital Media.

John Carpenter's The Thing Analysis

I recently watched John Carpenter's 1982 film The Thing based on the John W. Campbell Jr. short story 'Who Goes There?'  When watching it, I began to think about my own project for this class, and how I would like to make an animation in the sci-fi or horror sci-fi genres.  So I began to look at what techniques Carpenter applies in his film to make it so great.  First I noticed that the reaction shots, which there are a lot of in this film, are always shown with the reactor seen first, exemplifying the tension and making the viewer more on edge.  I also thought that the music also helped the mood of the movie, while minimal, it is probably one of the best scores for any movie I've seen, and I've seen a lot of movies.  But, by far, the best part of the film is, of course, Kurt Russel!  He is the man.  He makes any alright movie, and makes it awesome.  This movies starts AND ends with him drinking, but not out of some dumb cup. No, he drinks it out of the bottle, no ice, no nothing!  What could make this movie better?  Oh, I don't know, how about... Wilford Brimley!!!!! Just because he's Wilford Brimley.  Anyway, I really like this movie and I want to make things like this, either in my animations or in the CVTV specials with Evan and Zach.

Also, I storyboarded my animation to make it better:

1/11/16

These are the storyboards for my animation project. This is what I did last week and part of last. 

Chuck Jones Sketchbook page 12/14

12/1 - 12/4

Link to Thanksgiving Special I worked on

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vodX7O_nIU

11/23 - 11/27