Animation-A-Day

So I feel as though I should give some explanation as to what it is I'm doing. My senior thesis film has been shelved, as the production, plot, story and process all got ahead of me. It will be something that I have every intention of coming back to later, but in the context of a senior thesis film, I was just not going to be able to pull it off. I believe in the project and the vision, its just a matter of getting the product to match those things as best they can. So, the question remains: what will I be showing at my senior show?


I got the idea from talking with RISD animation students. They are required to do a one-a-day animation as part of their senior year. Their teacher gives them a prompt, and they are then instructed to do an animation based off of whatever that day's prompt was. The quality of the films I've seen are impressive and inspiring, given the context that they were done in a day. So I proposed the idea to Mark Hoffmann, my thesis advisor and Ethan Berry, my seminar coordinator, that I do an animation a day for the next two weeks. If I keep each film to about 30 seconds, it's 7 minutes of film that I could show at my show in November. Mark gave me my prompts, and I started right away.

Here are the prompts:


1) Persistence
2) Paris, 1949
3) He Didn't Know He Bought A Lazer...
4) Open Eyes
5)

6) Persistence
7) Lose
8) 8
9) 8 + 1
10) Skin
11) Twins
12) Persistence
13) 10 Miles Under Ground
14) The End or The Beginning

So. Here it goes!