DESIGN NAME: Sea of Ink
PRIMARY FUNCTION: Animation
INSPIRATION: This animation is inspired by the artist's creative exploration path. The psychological struggle and subconscious artistic choices of the artist's creative process provided the main inspiration for this animation. The animation is visually influenced by traditional ink and watercolor paintings.
UNIQUE PROPERTIES / PROJECT DESCRIPTION: This is an animated short film about an artist struggling with his creative block and his journey under the sea. This animation portrays how the artist breaks through the barriers during the creation process. The animation has an unique visual aesthetic of the 3D hand-drawn watercolor ink style.
OPERATION / FLOW / INTERACTION: This work is a combination of animated visuals and audio. This animated short film can be played on the screen.
PROJECT DURATION AND LOCATION: The project took 2 years to ideate, research, design, animate and complete in New York.
FITS BEST INTO CATEGORY: Movie, Video and Animation Design
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PRODUCTION / REALIZATION TECHNOLOGY: The techniques used in this work are 2D animation, 3D animation, videography, hand-drawn illustrations and motion graphics. The live-action part was filmed by DSLR camera.
SPECIFICATIONS / TECHNICAL PROPERTIES: 1 Video
Width 1920 pixels, Height 1080 pixels
2 minutes and 27 seconds
TAGS: Motion design, Animation, Design, Motion Graphics
RESEARCH ABSTRACT: Chenxin has been creating hand-drawn textured style animations for years and developed her own creative aesthetics. Chenxin researched deeply into animation techniques including ink fluid and particle rendering to combine 2D, 3D and videography in the animation. The work expresses ink stroke in a new way of presentation with self-finding inspiration.
CHALLENGE: One of the challenge was to make the coherent visual between the live-action part and Chenxin's 3D hand-drawn watercolor ink style in the animation. Chenxin spent a lot effort and tried many versions to achieve the best result.
ADDED DATE: 2023-02-28 05:27:43
TEAM MEMBERS (3) : Director: Chenxin Yang, Designer: Chenxin Yang and Animator: Chenxin Yang
IMAGE CREDITS: Image 1: Creator Chenxin Yang
Image 2: Creator Chenxin Yang
Image 3: Creator Chenxin Yang
Image 4: Creator Chenxin Yang
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