End of year exhibit

My end of year exhibit made use of all my wall space and area with film and 3d work as well as 2d work.

Final Film - The Dancing Doll

This film includes the newly added fade out and in, organised credits, opening title. I am very happy with the film as it is very smooth but jerky in the sense that it adds to the creepiness. With the addition of the music and the syncing with the dance i feel it really portrays my theme of misconception, this creepy doll dancing to an appealing song in contrast to its appearance as well as the appealing dance which flows compared to the dolls scrappiness.

working back into old images

I worked back into two of my previous images, the first being my fourth doll drawing that i had already worked into and the second being my large drawing of my clown doll

 first i tried using a small part of black to see how it might look and then spread it across the rest of the background with a white outline to bring it forward and separate the doll from the background.

 I then added details from my newly designed circus around it (beads, border and lights) because of the pose and placement of the doll i wanted to keep it symmetrical to an extent.

 While working on the other image i used the same colours as the actual doll but darkened down with black ink, the ink also made the paint drip creating quite terrifying imagery.

 I added shading with pastels under the hair, chin and collar using a black and on the face a white to balance it out i also added white to the eyes, i think this gives the image some life making it seem incredibly eerie.

 The hair was to light so i went over it with a darker paint.

 I also went over the border with the same paint to make it more solid and curved the 'light'.

The New Stop motion

With this stop motion i made it longer with more photographs which overall made the dance movements slower which also made it easier to sync up the motion with the music. My main problem here was that the music ends quite abruptly so i plan to fade it out and in to make it seem more natural.

I also need to work on the ending credits so that they don't zoom past the screen

Illustrations in colour

As i worked into the other images with water colours they looked much nicer than the messy image from before, the previous one felt unorganised while because these have nothing else but the dolls the focus is on the dolls.

Illustrations

As well as the stop motion work i also started working on 2d pieces of work on stretched paper. These images like my previous drawings were done in stick and ink.

Originally these drawings were meant to be worked into like the previous large pieces i had done however...

Actual first attempt at stop motion

This was my first attempt at using the camera and moving the doll to get used to moving the doll for the stop motion. it went a lot faster than i had originally thought even though its quite simple.