Some weeks ago I had this dream...

And just remembered I wanted to write it down here...

It was one of those 'Apocalyptic dreams', with something like the end of the world...

I can just remember there was an alarm of a tornado. I was in this house... Can't clearly remember how I got there, but at that moment, everyone was getting ready for the tornado, when we saw it in the distance. There it was, coming towards the house. The windows shook, and I can just picture myself almost making it, almost getting free of the tornado -and it involved getting out of the house-, yet from out of nowhere came a force that pushed me inside the house and into a darker room, full of things and other people who was wondering how did they get there. It was my dream, that's how. There was no longer any tornado, but ratter we felt ourselves being agitated by an earthquake. Slowly first, and then stronger. "So that's it, they don't want us to escape" I thought when facing this earthquake and after being pushed back when trying to get out. And then, my perspective changed and now I was seeing everything in 3rd person... My view went through a window, and then saw the house becoming smaller, or better said, my viewing getting farther away. I saw how the house was being shaken by gigantic hands, hands which finally let it rest after a while beside what looked like a river over a mountain. And the mountain just looked plastic. Like a scale model.

When I woke-up later I associated it with Men In Black (1997) and how in the ending there's these aliens playing marbles with the galaxies...

I have been writing more in the latest posts as I haven't drawn anything yet...

Here, and 'The Dark Knight Rises' in Gotham city

Success of studying tons of things these holidays... Not very much.

I think my problem is my curiosity for so many things. And laziness, of course!

Ah, but it's life, therefore whatever you enjoy doing is what you should do. Or something of the sort...

Last week I went to watch this movie. It was really awesome:

Batman. The Dark Knight Rises. 2012.

It was a great day that one :). I dragged along my beloved ones, and even though one of them didn't like this sort of movies, she loved it! I thought about something I heard once about films, catching you entirely for some moments, all your attention and self. It was like forgetting about our world and actually going to Gotham City and living part of all those extreme emotions! And I think you can't stop wondering about film technology XD.

Pff.

Evaporating

I see everywhere, and my mind keeps marveling about everything there is: museums, parks, events, workshops, music, markets, food, theatre,... There's some issues happening at the moment here in Mexico, and I have so many things I would like to say about us, yet I am not a person of words... I think that here we have a nation, which sometimes looks divided, yet everyone is fighting for the same reasons, or moved by the same motive..

I also entered some free workshops at 'Injuve'. One of them is Art Therapy. We made these drawings:

 

Self-portrait left-handed, looking at a mirror, and without looking at the paper.

 

 Self-portrait right-handed, looking at a mirror, and without looking at the paper.

 

 

Quick drawing about what I thought Art Therapy was  about.

For the self-portraits, we created a dialogue between the two drawings... I thought it was related to finding yourself in these two drawings. Mine was a small conversation where they meet and analyze their factions, ending with complementing/helping each other.

I have been moving quite a lot, going here and there. I keep practicing a little bit of juggling (I am becoming a little bit addicted to clubs now..)

Ah, and I musn't forget, though my mind is moving so much and wanting to do so many things, I need to practice for animation! Reading something about the Story in Film... Ahh, but I think I need glasses now... I feel a little bit blind at times when reading..

Secrets and signs in photograps. Unrelated title.

Aha!

Back in Mexico! So far, haven't made anything from my 'to do during holidays' list apart from reading...

It's been great, though! Fire fire fire mixed with water. Mmmm.

That's me, and that's life. It's just feeling the flame.

These are the main things I would like to do during holidays:

- Learn After Effects
- Learn Premiere
- Practice juggling
- Make 100 animations (:p)

Secondary things:
- Read (& read those animation books...)
- Watch animations
- Practice japanese
- Draw

- Make a website
- Learn how to use my camera u.u

Seavacuee Test image 7

Seavacuee Test image 5

I am working with a friend for this project (collaboration, helping a Film & TV student with the animations in his film). I made one image before... Aaahhh, it really really sucked... This one is better, though...

There's seagulls outside flying all around... I hadn't noticed they were here until last week. They make it feel as if we were right in the shore.

The sky is getting clearer as morning arrives.

Test image 1

Ostrich

It's been a while again. I have been doing many things; from doing nothing to doing a lot haha. It varies...

I'm currently working in an animation with an ostrich, and other things...

Jan Švankmajer - "Sucumb totally to your obsessions"

"I don't think the real, physical world that we live in is quite enough for us human beings... Which is why many of us keep watching films; maybe we would like to peel back the layer of what we see before us, and see what's underneath."

Svankmajer quoted in Shoji, Kaori. 2011. 'Surviving Life' [internet]. The Japan Times Online. Available @http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/ff20110902a3.html [Accessed March 19th 2012]

Life Drawing. The Return.

I am working in this project at the moment (in some hours I need to finish it!). It's an animatic, but ahhhhhhh, I need more time!! And I am so sleepy...

(Secretly, I would like to be like her :p)

Life Drawing II

Life Drawing

Puppet and setting

I wanted to fill it with things, but even if I don't have time to do so, it doesn't look so bad, right? The setting needs a duvet.

Burning lines.

We are making a setting (our room in a scale of 1:6) and a puppet for this project. I feel I would like to make a thousand animations, a lot of puppets and a lot of settings. And then I'll feel more confident to even offer my work to help other students or participate in exhibitions and such...

When you have tried one technique, the more you try it the more confident you feel with it. And the less time it takes.

Meanwhile, and in general, I feel a little bit lost.

ECA 5 films in 10 days. Animation 5

ECA 5 films in 10 days. Animation 4

I was really stuck with this one at one point... Not patient enough to move clip by clip for too long, so as it can be seen, there's diverse things which miraculously fitted together, mainly thanks to the opacity and overlaying changes. Without them, it all looked very separated!

Another thing that helped me was the music! It's so good! And again, miraculously fitted in the right parts.

ECA 5 films in 10 days. Animation 3

One thing that I came to think with this piece is that maybe we need sudden shifts... Dramatic shifts, maybe, if you want your piece to seem more dinamic. As for this one, I used the wire to go up to the camera, so part of it looks unfocused in some frames. It's very few frames, but that blurriness creates this depth... And the wire revolving also adds noise to the piece.

ECA 5 films in 10 days. Animation 2

ECA 5 films in 10 days. Animation 1

Feels like some sort of trailer for some suspense movie...

Christmas card

This was a project were we had to make a small animated Christmas card message. I remember I listened a lot of Christmas songs back then, and did feel the Christmas spirit haha. There was also a small party in the department and we even had a small Christmas tree.

I had many problems with this animation as I didn't use a tripod and at some point I was really stuck..

Some sketches of candyland and the idea in general:

Edinburgh sketches

The monkey dance

I FINISHEEEEEED!!!!!! HA!!

Fixation things...

I tend to draw a lot of these:

- fish
- clocks
- old people
- trees
- bubbles
- cirque
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I'll keep writing this list whenever I think of other things I tend to draw a lot...

Our project of 5 films in 10 days is almost over.

Carrots

After reading this article: lettuce article I think my recent liking to carrots is due to all the time I have spent in front of the computer some of the last days...

According to the article, your body asks you to eat what you are lacking or you need (certain vitamins and such. Would write more about it, but I need to continue with my work...). And they say carrots are good for the eyes. So I think my body knows my eyes are getting too exhausted and asks me for the thing that's in the carrots... Interesting!

I have work to update now! But I can't because of lack of time! I have sketches and animations! And they are cool animations! Although I need to upload them to my vimeo account....

We are making the '5 animations in 10 days' project and it's great! I mean, I want to shoot myself at times haha, because we just have 'till midnight for each animation, but it's a really productive project... I'll get going now... Really need to keep going on with whatever I am doing.

2012. Beginning and end.

2011 was an interesting year.

The feeling of exploding into a million of particles is still lingering, and the numbness and surreality. I can't say it's all good, I can't say it's bad.

It's complicated explaining it.. It's like tearing paper. A black sea. It's explosion. And actually, through all of this, it has been a great year.