Keyframe Workshops

I have been developing workshops for first year students to learn about animating the layer properties in After Effects using keyframes. Initially my reference for the project was the Animade Lernz series, using a character like the one I created a few years ago for the teaching work I was doing at Ravensbourne at the time:

And then I came across this clip from a student on the Digital Communication Design course at Epsom and loved it. The pace and feel of the first part of the clip is a great example of what can be done using editing and basic motion in After Effects.


Untitled from Digital Communication Design on Vimeo.

Art School (propositions for the 21st Century)

I picked up this book in the library and have been flicking through it over Christmas. One text in particular really stood out, a piece of writing by Liam Gillick and his students at Columbia University. It is a proposal for an art school, or an idea about an art school. I love the way it is written, as well as the ideas. I have been thinking about it in relation to my film proposal. All the things that surround creative practice and allow it to happen, and wondering if the proposal could be written in this way.