Final Project

Artist Statement

I always like to try different ways to make my animation. Before I make the animation, I usually generally concern with the problem how to make it more interesting, more possibility. Also, I am really interesting in the suspense theme or thrillers, so when I think about a story, I can’t help create those kinds of animation. Therefore, compared to the action, I prefer to render the atmosphere and am more concerned about the changes of the camera.

However, in this project #2, as we should make a very short one, I decided to make a funny one. I came out a lot of ideas, but they are all not complete. Finally, I decide to use my favorite things which are television and comic books to fit the Jacques Derrida's concept. I use the panel to refer to as "framing". I want to make the comic form very obvious, so I remember the Japanese girl comic books that I read when I was a child. I want a clear distinction between the real world and the world of comics. I hope when audiences watch this short animation, they will feel happy, and it will recall their childhood memories. 

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Reflection of Winter Days by Yori Norstein

When I first watch this animation, I would not believe this was created by a Russian if I hadn’t known it. I am so surprised that he is a Russian but he is so familiar with the Japanese poetry. He is a great model that we should do a lot research about what we do and we should know what we do. I thought he is a monk before I read the interview, especially it has the bell sound of the temple, so I was thinking what relation between monk and Basho is. However, after I read the interview I think his deign is great. Basho threw himself into a different life, so he was a poet and at the same time a monk. He talked about a new living complex in a documentary. He thought that is a dead place for poets. You can’t create things if you live a life of ease. I really like his character design, they are kind like paper cut puppets, and the color is very elegant.

I agree that we can never think the work we have done is finished. We always feel it don’t show our concept (intonation) perfectly.

In his interview, I think he believes that the poets are not just the people who wrote poetry, also the people who feel things and create things. I like he said, “Never allow oneself to remain the same - like a river, always renewing itself”. We can’t live in the world without changing. The world is changing every day, if we don't change to fit it, we will be rejected by the world. Basho would grasp the world with his poetry, and the world would become substantial in order to convey something invisible to the eye. So do the animators. I remembered Nick Park. He is very low key person. He doesn’t like to talk and be social. He is not good at express himself in words, so he uses his animation to talk.

After I read the interview, I just know that the two characters (Basho and Chikusai) in his animation lived in different periods, so they could never show in the same moment. I feel more interesting before I didn’t read it. Before, I like his style and the atmosphere he created in the animation.

I think he really knew what he should do. He is very smart. He knew that he is not Japanese. He could never create a Japanese style just like it should be. He could never totally express a Japanese literature accurately, so he tried to make things more subtle.

Reflection of Jacques Derrida

Kant believed frame is accessory, such as the frame of painting，the columns of the building. Derrida thought that the frame defines the opposition of inside and outside part. Frame will guide the viewer's attention to the center content of the work, which use to differ from the world outside the frame. It is the frame to construct the central meaning of the work. Frame is everywhere. It is not just art having the frame. It is also in our life. All things are working around frame.

There are a lot of opinions that I am really interested in, like he thought there is no singular origin. Life is a cellular process, so I started to think what thing is the first birth in the world. I am really curious about it. I heard a question before, “Are the eggs come first or the chicken comes first”?

Also, the label example makes me really resonated. People will not help to see the label when they are looking at the painting works. Then they will automatically give the content of the label to the works, and they will have the feeling: “yeah, that is right”. However, if the label cannot be found, people will be worried. They feel that they can’t really understand the work. Such preconceptions often make us really far away from the real understanding of a piece of work.

I think deconstruction is not only a form of art, but also to break the shackles and the limitation of artistic creation. The artist should be open-minded. Art should not have bound but have creativity and flexibility. We should do a variety of interesting attempt through divergent thinking.

Reflection of time & again

I really like the style that he used to create the animation. It is amazing. It is like an animated comic book. I am so excited that I saw this animation and gave me inspiration that animation can have many forms and we can make more interesting if we keep trying. This is about a man’s daily life. It would be very boring if the director just used the normal way to animate. Every time I thought it was over it continued. 

There are many excellent ways I think it’s really worth to learn. The whole style is like a comic book, the story is happening from one square to the next square. I like when the next square works, the last square will turn dark. This is easy for audiences to follow the story. And although the style is 2 Dimensional, he used the 3 Dimensional to change the scene. Also, about the background, he used the wrinkled paper texture and it keeps changing. I imagine it is like we flip the pages. Another interesting part is he used the comic dialog bubbles to replace the voice. Although the style is interesting, but I feel sad with the story and the classic piano music. He used the real painting on the notebook to show the character's imagination, it is also very interesting and innovative. It reminds me my little drawing in my notebook.