Hello! I was wondering if you've ever done animations? I feel like your style would be so awesome as an animation and your art kinda reminds me of the independent animator Georges Schwizgebel!
Hi and thank you for the compliment!
I haven’t done much animation at all, and nothing fully rendered, but I did check out Georges Schwizgebel’s work and it looks amazing, maybe I’ll try it out at some point when I figure out how it works on CSP
This animation is based on a bunch of animators that I looked into, from Yoji Kuri to Norman McLaren! I was interested in the freeing movement that came with a lot of their works, so I went into this little project with less planning than I normally would. There's also a list of all the creators I looked into for this mini project, branching out from my main inspiration, Georges Schwizgebel. It was very freeing and exciting to just go all in without as much meticulous planning, so I'm definitely going to further explore this method! :^)
favorite medium? and also what are some things that inspire you?
Oil paint (particularly with something fast ing like a galkyd medium), the color mixing and versatility is wonderful + I don't have to worry about things drying on my brushes / palette. Charcoal is amazing for quick expressive marking and a command over light. Haven't used it much in a while because it's somehow messier than oils
Also use a lot of mechanical pencil + grease pencil 🌞
Max Ernst, focus/qs75834, Marisol, tarot symbolism (tarot of the spirit is especially nice and painterly), probably all the shounen jump I read as a kid (rip their English print run), Georges Schwizgebel (#1 animator ever), ancient anthropomorphic vessels
My favorite shorts this month were Asparagus, Gloria Victoria, Ab Ovo, I Have Dreamed Of You So Much and Around the Lake
Asparagus - Suzan Pitt (1979), Takeda Station Memories - Michika Hamamura (2016), Futon - Yoriko Mizushiri (2012), The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse - Evelyn Lambart (1980), The Hangman at Home - Michelle Kranot & Uri Kranot (2021), Certain Women - Kelly Reichardt (2016), Somewhere - Nicolas Menard (2013), Gloria Victoria - Theodore Ushev (2013), The Color of Pomegranates - Sergei Parajanov (1969), Around the Lake - Carl Roosens & Noémie Marsily (2013), Marcel, King of Tervure - Tom Schroeder (2013), Zig Zag - Georges Schwizgebel (1996), Pearls - Maureen Selwood (1988) , Ab Ovo - Anita Kwiatkowska-Naqvi (2013), Drunker Than a Skunk - Bill Plympton (2013), Cargo Cult - Bastien Dubois (2013), Transparency - Daniel Šuljić (2015), Rick the cube - Jesse Lucas (), Mia - Wouter Bongaerts (2014), I Have Dreamed Of You So Much - Emma Vakarelova (2015), Loves Me, Loves Me Not - Jeff Newitt (1992), The Ogre - Laurène Braibant (2017), Wind - Robert Löbel (2013), The Mist Is Coming In - Sophie Racine (2013), Scavengers Reign (2023), Notre maison - Caori Murata (2020)