FLOWEY FLOWER (Patreon)

Hello! Maybe you saw a gif I posted here a few days ago of a plasticine flower. Here it is again, but in a video, with music and sound and a background and compositing and stuff.

This isn't a shot for a film project, but after making that flower as a test, I wanted to see what it might look like if I DID make a plasticine film. And I suppose it would look something like this!

During Throat Notes, I knew that whatever I made next, I wanted to incorporate more mediums, be it stop motion, puppets, 3D, whatever.
While Throat Notes was 2D computer drawings like most of my films, a big part of what I was trying to achieve was use of shading and texture and compositing to make it feel less "flat" than my previous work, more palpable.

I learned a lot doing it, and I'm hoping it has equipped me to close the gap between my drawn animation and some more tactile mediums. Like I could switch from clay to a sock puppet to a drawn animation with some actual cohesion, and the drawing wouldn't look like a Mary Poppins cel stamped over the top.

So now that I've leveled up my 2D animating and compositing, the next goal in my long-game is to get up to speed with some of these other techniques. Hence this flower, the weird green screen thing and the felt clown collab with my partner.
I hope you've been enjoying these little experiments because I'm learning heaps from doing them and would like to do a few more- but of course, I'm looking very forward to applying some of this new stuff to an *ACTUAL* animated short film sometime soon.