La paradoja del tiempo en animación (translation: a for animation)

Article for the first edition of Con a de animacion. An academic journal published by the Grupo de Investigacion en Animacion: Arte e industria Departamento de Dibujo, Universitat Politecnica de Valenci

The paradox of animation time. If the inanimate experiences real time why does it appear alive for a brief moment?

Joule, A. (2011). The paradox of animation time. If the inanimate experiences real time why does it appear alive for a brief moment?. Con A de Animación. (1). doi:10.4995/caa.2011.864SWORD

Salvage

Redundant military vehicles slowly consumed by nature over time. This hardware, built to withstand the heat of battle slowly crumbles and rusts. Trees grow from the hulks, metal turns to ferns, they sit drowned in pools of water. A metaphor for the battle that nature must fight against the worst that mankind can throw at it, and the tenacity that nature possesses. A short black and white experimental time-lapse film that explores the way in which nature colonises and eventually overcomes man-made objects

178.98

178.98 was shot in St Petersburg, Russia whilst Andy Joule was a guest at the Open Cinema Film and Animation Film Festival in 2012. Filmed on location over four days and nights in St Petersburg, Russia in August 2012. The film is a response to culture shock and translocation, a reaction to new heritage and history, sights and sounds, beauty and backstreets. A day in the life of the city. With such a short amount of time available the film was made as a response to the city and it's culture, with its structure only coming together in the edit, though the idea that it would try and reflect the hectic nature of the place from dawn to dusk in a variety of locations had been a major consideration

Ellipsis

The patterns of light as it moves through time and place reveal another side to nature. The places where we have been, the footprints of our existence that we leave are shown, brief glimpses of our interaction through our systems, our processes, our lives. The journey starts with hope, a brave new world with its structure and bold design. Bright, clean, optimistic. But time erodes, and hope fades as familiarity envelopes us. We see the decay, both physical and spiritual through dust and dereliction. But salvation awaits. Or does it? We trust in something bigger but intangible. And we return, sometime to the beginning. To a place of nostalgia, of reflection but also melancholy. The journey, cyclical, begins again, the spiral of our lives ever playing out, generation after generation seeking the same answers, with the same hope and fears, with the same sense of loss at the end of the day

Be Here Steryear

A music film for the musician William D Drake. Filmed on location in Bucharest, Brasov, Sibiu & Alba Iulia, Romania and London

Me Fish Bring

'Me Fish Bring' is an official music film for the track, from the album 'The Rising of the Lights' by William D Drake. The film is a combination of techniques, comprising multi-layering, time-lapse, pixelation, 2D animation and live action

La paradoja del tiempo en animación. Si lo inanimado también experimenta el tiempo real, ¿por qué parece vivo por un momento?

[EN] Animation is by nature a time based medium. It is a dissection of time, a fragmentary exploration and journey of discovery frame by frame. By utilising the idiosyncrasies of film and perception of vision, the animator attempts to reconstruct their understanding of reality twenty five times every second. The paradox of this action occurs between the observation of this and the execution of the result. In short this is what the animator experiences and what the inanimate does. This extract is based on my observations as a practitioner in the field of stopmotion animation, and my considerations of the passage of time for me as the illusionist, conjurer and artist, and the time that I shared with the inanimate object. Unaware itself of time the puppets would appear lifeless, static and unconscious, until the camera awoke and shared its moment with the audience.[ES La animación es un medio basado en el tiempo. Se trata de una disección del tiempo, una exploración fragmentaria, un viaje de descubrimiento fotograma a fotograma, donde el animador intenta reconstruir su propia comprensión de la realidad, veinticinco veces por segundo. La paradoja de esta acción se produce entre la observación del presente y la ejecución del resultado (entre lo que el animador experimenta, y lo que realiza lo inanimado). Este pensamiento se basa en mis observaciones como profesional en el campo de la animación stop-motion, así como en mis consideraciones del paso del tiempo como ilusionista, mago y artista, y en el tiempo que he compartido con los objetos inanimados: sin percibir el tiempo mismo, las marionetas parecen inertes, estáticas e inconscientes, hasta que la cámara las despierta para compartir su momento con el público.Joule, A. (2011). La paradoja del tiempo en animación. Si lo inanimado también experimenta el tiempo real, ¿por qué parece vivo por un momento?. Con A de Animación. (1). doi:10.4995/caa.2011.860

Four and five

The two faces of China, one modern and fast paced the other seeped in tradition. It was filmed in the temples, on the streets and among the farmers and fishermen of Shanghai, Wuhan, Changsha and Guanzhou. 'four and five' was filmed over ten days in the cities of Shanghai, Wuhan, Changsha and Guangzhou. Each city has its own flavour and distinct identity, but also vibrant relics from the past. Behind the steel and glass of the modern China, can easily be found the temples and pagodas, the fields and fishing nets so synonymous with the country. The two live cheek by jowl. In the film I have tried to capture this essence, the heady aroma of incense contrasting with the fumes and noise of the traffic, trains and aircraft all the time reflecting back to the contemplative nature of water, prayer and meditation