Project Proposal
The focus of my project is a part of the population’s psychological state. I intend to explore the theme of ‘how a person goes from being needed to being abandoned’. The intended audience for my work is everyone. I am aiming to produce illimitation. I hope to create a world as the real outcasts see it. My outcome maybe is he/she has been despair and disappear. I would like to explore this topic because I know what it feels like to be lonely and helpless, so I want more people to pay attention to these communities as well.
From the beginning of the course to now, I have learned a lot of things, such as stop motion animation, hand-drawn animation and many basic operations and knowledge of animation. I think the more difficult thing is to grasp the speed of the animation, so I usually use rotoscoping as my action reference. I am most interested in stop motion animation, and I enjoy the process of making props and shooting. But what I want to do more is to learn some 3D modeling and color experiments.
When I want to transform to illustrations, I want to draw some more content works. Usually, an animation uses a lot of pictures combined to tell a story, but an illustration can read a lot of content through a picture. So I think illustration may help me think more about art, and there may be a lot of experimentation in the process.
The reason why I chose to be an abandoned person is because I had depression. At that time, I felt that I was no longer needed by the whole world. At the same time, many of my friends have the same feeling. As people’s spiritual world is becoming increasingly scarce, I want to draw people’s attention to the people around me through my works. Maybe I will find some art exhibitions or related books on depression as a reference source.
I want to express most of the work of this project by hand, because many hand-painted tools have a lot of randomness when painting, such as random paper textures. These are irreplaceable with computers. Maybe in the process of making this project, I will try many different materials and tools to do a lot of experiments, and maybe also use PS and AI.