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From 2009 to 2010 I kept an animated journal.
I had always liked the picture a day format, video diaries etc, and animation is, traditionally a long drawn out, painful process, so this was me trying to find a way to free it up and make it a bit more ephemeral. I should’ve just waited a few years for the smartphones to do it for me, but there you are.
Stan Brakhage said that he considered what he did to be his home movies and these follow a similar vein.
In a pre-Vine era I was generally capturing what was going on around me and channelling it into 250 frames.
It was made using a variety of software & techniques including Maya, flip book drawings, After Effects, old cameras, roll film, digital photography and so on.
“I’m not really sure what to make of Paul’s animated experiments but there is something hypnotic and mesmerizing about these snippets of life. It’s like dipping a toe in somebody else’s sensorial experience, vaguely voyeuristic without the seedy Big Brother connotations. Which is a good thing, because somehow I doubt an animator’s lifestyle could compete with the glossy glamour of watching a Z-list celebrity painting their toenails.”
– 4mations
Also featured at:
Soundproof – 11/11/11 at the Newlyn Art Gallery
Too Art For TV Exhibition – at the Erebuni, 158 Roebling Street, Williamsburg, New York.
Paul Greer 