final animation

Planning

Throwing Squares

The colour explosions in my work are created by squares being thrown at the pinata. I used photoshop again to simply move and decrease the size of the square in each frame to suggest it moving towards the pinata. I also used photoshop to delete the sections of the pinata which had been destroyed by the squares at various points of my animation.

making the explosions

To create the explosion parts of my animation I printed each cell off and worked on top of it in acyrlic paint. Because of the nature of the explosions I enjoyed being able to work freehand and quite spontaneously.
After painting on top of my frames I scanned them in and added them to the sequence.

Start of hand drawn animation.

To give my animation the hand-made aesthetic I wanted I began drawing each cell of my animation by hand. Although I like this effect I think that for the time scale I am working to it would be more suitable to work with my initial drawings in photoshop for the rest of the piece, but here are a few cells and a short tester clip.

Colour Development

To create my colour explosions I have decided to use acrylic paint on top of my frames. Each frame will be painted differently which will show the motion of an explosion well, below are some developments of this style.

Alex Box

Alex Box is a former fine artist who made the transition to make up artist, her fine art background is evident in her work. She sees make up as an art and uses the face as a canvas for her work.
  I was introduced to her work after seeing this piece in 'dazed and confused' which she collaborated on with the photographer Rankin.

"I do it all freehand. The minute you start using stencils you've got a pre-conceived idea of what you're going to do." - Alex Box

This piece is very theatrical and the child-like painted face bears a resemblance to clown make up. This also the way box has used texture on the models face reminds me of the characters created by Alison Schulnik in her 'Ready Able' animation. The dark background and the expression of the model gives the piece a dark, sinister feel whilst still being child-like.

Jackson Pollock and Action Painting

Action Painting is a style associated with abstract expressionism and relies on spontaneity, the paint is dripped, poured and smeared across the canvas.

Pollock worked with liquid paint throughout his career experimenting with pouring and dripping methods. He saw his paintings as having a life of their own and I think this gives the effect of explosions in his work.
  I was reminded of the link between Pollock's work and the effect I am trying to achieve in my animation on a recent trip to 'The Pompidou Centre' an art gallery in Paris after seeing 'The Deep' which Pollock painted in 1953.

John Squires artwork for The Stone Roses was obviously influenced greatly by Pollocks painting. 

How to go about creating colour explosions.

'Aqua Artist' Mark Mawson creates these abstract works by simply dropping paint into water. The way that the paint spreads through the water creates a 3d tangible effect. To make different shapes Mawson uses paints with varying densities and the most common response to the subject of his work is sea creatures.