When I was taking visual effects animation classes in college, one of the things we had to do constantly was study movement as a whole. In that class I was taught to look at the physics of movement - something I was wholly interested in prior to becoming an animator - and study how everything fell and try to imagine the parameters by which these pathways altered and changed, providing a new outcome. One such assignment had us studying water - specifically water splashes - so we could animate a rock being thrown into a pool of water. We were given more time on this assignment than prior classes in this course, and as a result we had more time to study up and then work on our animations. Our professor, a self-styled Nebraskan cowboy (may he rest in peace), commended us on our work, saying it was the best he had ever seen thus far from a class.
I say this because water itself is incredibly important to me in film and seeing how people film it fascinates me. Frampton’s approach to water here feels cold and analytical and it does put a lot of his other experimental works into perspective for me.
When I was taking visual effects animation classes in college, one of the things we had to do constantly was study movement as a whole. In that class I was taught to look at the physics of movement - something I was wholly interested in prior to becoming an animator - and study how everything fell and try to imagine the parameters by which these pathways altered and changed, providing a new outcome. One such assignment had us studying water - specifically water splashes - so we could animate a rock being thrown into a pool of water. We were given more time on this assignment than prior classes in this course, and as a result we had more time to study up and then work on our animations. Our professor, a self-styled Nebraskan cowboy (may he rest in peace), commended us on our work, saying it was the best he had ever seen thus far from a class.
I say this because water itself is incredibly important to me in film and seeing how people film it fascinates me. Frampton’s approach to water here feels cold and analytical and it does put a lot of his other experimental works into perspective for me.
