so heres the background to the start and end of my animation.




the boy at the start of my animation is standing in the corner of this room. this drawing, and my understanding of perspective, is inspired by escher. he never actually used curved perspective as the subject of any one print, but it features in lots of his later work - "high and low" is probably the best example.



he gives a really good example of how curved perspective can be observed in real life. stand underneath two telegraph wires and look straight ahead, and notice how they converge to a point. then look straight up, and observe how they are parallel. then turn around and look straight behind, and notice again how they converge to a point. therefore, there must be a curve in the perspective! the more you try and look for this, the more you will see it...it only happens in the periphery of vision. our brains decode information in such a way that curved lines appear straight.

"floating on this eerie water, far away from bricks and mortar..saw a mermaid, didnt caught her" Tove Jansson

Linetest - timed out, upped the contrast, added color hues, and overlaid a scratch music track.

I spent all day yesterday linetesting this, and went a bit mad. The old biddies in the university cafe had themed T-shirts, FAIRTRADE FORTNIGHT written across their sagging breasts. I wonder where the T-shirts were made?

In Newport, i bought a homeless woman a kebab. The man behind the counter looked at me as if i was dirt, then tried to shortchange me a tenner. On the train, the man opposite me was asleep, so i woke him up when we got to Cardiff. He thanked me, and I replied that i hoped that he'd do the same for me. As i walked away, he called me back, and gave me my mobile phone, which I'd left on the seat.

Life.

boy paper bird flight church smoke cliff bird octopus! teacup

its odd to see two years of my life in the physical form of about two thousand sheets of paper.
so heres a rough linetest of animation...untimed, so it runs by like a rat on crack. theres still lots to animate and theres no beginning or end in this video. its been a while since i posted anything on this..but i've been working pretty hard on it. i hope when its scanned colored and with music/foley, it l feel a bit more like a film rather than a linetest.