Still playing ... this time at setting up 3d with 2d images.

Playing ... at museums in transit, I think.

Bear Animation Projection.

This is the working process for the animation and filmed projection into the static bear that I made. I decided to do this, as so much of the "Preservation" story by Hannah Tinti was about how humans project their emotions onto animals, so actually using projecting as a means to portray this intrinsically within the medium seemed a good choice. I did lots of pencil drawings of a bear in movement and projected this onto the static bear as a contrast, I wanted to make it come to life, to come alive and move around, as it does in the story, and I think it has achieved this, really.

Bear

Looking for imagery which suggests the story of "Preservation" by Hannah Tinti, which is a multi-layered short story, set in a museum, using the idea of diorama imitating life, preserving time, addressing the questions of how we preserve life-like qualities and suspend time in the act of taxidermy. There is also the question of how museums change according to changes in society, although this can happen slowly, and some museums can seem suspended in time in the way they display things. This can be viewed as stultifying out of date, or strangely calming in it's non-interactive state. In any case, this short story also deals with the impending death of the main character's father, whose fears and longings are projected onto a lifeless stuffed bear exhibit, which comes to life one evening as she is inside a diorama finished off painting the background scenes. It peers into the glass of the diorama and starts to jump up and down against it.