BRIEF.
We are asking you to work to the theme of ‘negative and positive’. This is an experimental project so you can just work on it as an exploration of colour, form, sequence, light and dark etc but we would also like you to think about conveying different oppositional moods, or points of view. Or it could be just two opposing ways of looking at an image.
RESEARCH.
It was very hard to find Negative and Positive piece of art/animation. But the one thing I did find was something called 'Metamorphosis'. Visual metamorphosis is the term we use to indicate shape-shifting in art. It allows an artist to transform a shape representing one item into a similar shape representing something else. This, in turn, allows one meaning to be hidden behind another.
I love how something so simple like a drawing of a face for example can then be merged/shape shifted into a completely different thing. Another reason why I like this is because black and white is very easy to do for this, if you start using colour to do a metamorphosis animation it will get very tricky.
Animals are a very popular drawing when it comes to doing metamorphosis animations, but because the brief is negative and positive I might constantly merge a new shape into its opposite form, for example a gun turning into a heart, the words "Hello" and "Bye".
Metamorphosis work:
I love how something so simple like a drawing of a face for example can then be merged/shape shifted into a completely different thing. Another reason why I like this is because black and white is very easy to do for this, if you start using colour to do a metamorphosis animation it will get very tricky.
Animals are a very popular drawing when it comes to doing metamorphosis animations, but because the brief is negative and positive I might constantly merge a new shape into its opposite form, for example a gun turning into a heart, the words "Hello" and "Bye".
Metamorphosis work: