An experimental animation on soot .
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INSPIRATION
For my short film, I was looking for a medium where I can experiment with but the funny thing was, I always thinking in linear way and end up with existing mediums. In the search for a new medium I was reminded of one of my childhood episodes. Kerosene lanterns were an integral part of my childhood days. Me and my sister used to study under the light of kerosene lanterns. That experience was awesome. The dull yellow light, the smoky kerosene smell, the antique look of the lantern, all of them had their own class and charm. Whenever we got bored with studies, we played with the lantern. What we did was funny. We would block the lanterns smoke with a piece of paper. After sometime the paper would’ve a thick layer of dark soot over it. We would use it as a canvas and draw images over it using twigs. We used to make sceneries of night, houses, stars, moon and the list goes on. And the most important part was, we were very excited to see the white lines on the black sheet, it would looks like the negatives of photographs. Those experiences make me think more about it and finally decided to use it as the medium for my experimental animation
Experimental Animation
Experimental Animation
THE PROCESS
Instead of paper, I used glass sheet as the canvas. Hanging a glass slide above the dense smoke of kerosene lantern create a black film in the glass sheet. Once the dark layer is formed the frames were drawn over it and then captured keeping it over a light box. After each frame, the glass is replenished with the smoke and drawn again. The 400 frames were created as this.
As compared to the traditional light box method , in this method it was really challenging to keep the track of actions while animating cell by cell. In traditional light box method there is onion skin to for the last frames action reference, but here, as it’s a black canvas there wasn’t any clue for it, only the previous line’s track and guessing were possible
As compared to the traditional light box method , in this method it was really challenging to keep the track of actions while animating cell by cell. In traditional light box method there is onion skin to for the last frames action reference, but here, as it’s a black canvas there wasn’t any clue for it, only the previous line’s track and guessing were possible
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