At the beginning of our class tour of the Museum of Moving Image we were able to see The Feral Front, which is a sculptor by Gregory Barsamian built in 1996. The sculptor is made of steel, foam, decorated with acrylic paint powered by a motor and displayed with the needed effect of a strobe light.
The Feral Font is piece of visual art that helps to explain the process of animation. The structor of the sculptor is shape like a tornado with 97 small sculptor piece starting at the top and spiraling all the way to the bottom. The small sculptors consists of faucet tops that drip water drops, which then morph into bombs. The bombs pass through hands and then morph into a paper airplane which lands in a dishpan full of dishes, which then break from the impact of the paper airplane. Once the strobe light is turned on and the motor the sculpture begins to turn the sculpture the piece attached to the spiral act as drawing from a flip book. As the spiral turns the small sculpture interacts with the strobe light coming to life by creating an animated a sequence.
This method of animation is used primarily in claymation. Movies like A Nightmare Before Christmas, Frankenweenie, Corpse Bride and so on. I love claymation and had no idea that this process was used to create such a fluid flow with the clay pieces. Now since seeing the process in action I understand that the only way to create such movements with the clay can only be achieved through this method.
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