Moving Paintings/Psychedelic Season Scene - Foundation Final

Had to do it a while ago - my final from Foundation Program at VFS, result of a year there.. and especially a couple of last months :) Enjoy.. even bugs.

Subtitles were added afterwards.

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Sia/ Stasi. 

Little revolution.

Less than 34 hours left to work on final (+a couple of days after). Less than 34 hours to go before big deadline. Although it feels like I need a couple more art slaves to complete my project (I consider myself it), so it could look perfectly, I will be able to finish it, 'cause now it's a question of how much I enjoy, what I am doing, and also.. dignity. I spend so much time in school, that my spirit will stay in those walls. It's funny, how emotionally attached to places I get sometimes. I will miss almost everything about Vancouver and school, and particularly this building.

Also today is sunny, and it's gay parade, and I wear rainbow stockings to blend with loud colorful city.

By this title I mean: it will be my little revolution and it will be a little disillusionment, because waves of expectations are high.

445

 

Close to be done with this animation :)

listening to some crazy different music

and broadcasting here:

 

PsychedelicPreference

NOW

Still from my animation without live footage. Frame 260 (end of 10th sec).

PsychedelicPreference

while making my final, I am listening and broadcasting some music on Grooveshark.

http://grooveshark.com/#!/user/PsychedelicPreference/21800764/broadcast

I'm getting thrilled by my animation, and so I am pretty much sucked inside, though I already imagine how I will be celebrating after it's done.

Also I thought, that pretty much everything I do is about beginning.

frame 220

Still working on the same stuff again, frames that were in corrupted file. Flash CS6 crushed and I couldn't open last saved version, so I lost a day of work. Hoped that my anger could help me to regenerate it really fast, but it didn't happen, so I'm drawing it from scratch. I was mad at myself for not saving it on usb before, though this accident gave me push and I changed my working place to school's pc lab again. Bigger screens and safer systems.. Gosh, Flash CS6 crushes a LOT, and it's not possible to save it in earlier versions, so you are obliged to work in Flash CS6 since you once started.

But I'm getting some energy from food, coffee, always music, and ready to work all night long. Hopefully I'll get over lost frames pretty soon and will do 70 more :)

frame 205

Some little amazing boy or actually growing up man back in Russia is having his 25th birthday today, and I am on frame 205, what a beautiful coincidence. Like also crossing with projects' elements/themes with some 3D mates (I am basically surrounded by wonderful guys).

I need some fresh head, and only sleep can help. So I'll continue rotoscoping flesh (*joke) tomorrow, hopefully after talking to dad on skype.

frame 156

When you have feeling, that everything you do is ugly and beautiful at the same time. This eternal nature of polarities: and the way should be found above it, just by enjoying this ing/yang combination.

content of my head at midnight

frame 123

day 6 frame 110

Locked myself home with cell phone off and my fears on. 

In the result watched a bunch of tv series, a couple of movies and moved just a little bit.

From now on gonna sit on it until passing out in the morning.

I miss people.

Заперла себя дома с выключенным телефоном и с включенными страхами.

В результате посмотрела сериалы, пару кино и продвинулась всего немного.

С настоящего момента буду сидеть на над проекта до утра, пока не выключусь.

Я скучаю по людям.

roto

day 3 frame 71

Cat Power - Good Woman

Cat Power - Sea of Love

Cat Power - The Greatest

Regina Spektor - Sunshine

Cocorosie - Sunshine

Cocorosie - Black Poppies

Cocorosie - Harmless Monster

final: day 3 + music

day 3 frame 55

With all that spontaneous animation with the growing trees from head I feel like old good hippie.

 Frank Zappa - Pachuco Cadaver

(rock legend, who was out of box)

Chris Miles - Growing Pains

(he makes rap with such a nice childish voice)

Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg - 69 Annee Erotique

(sexy french 60s)

Portishead with Jane Birkin - Melody

Regina Spektor - Mary Ann

(piano indie singer american/russian/french languages)

Regina Spektor - Hallelujah

Regina Spektor - No Surprises (Radiohead cover) 

Can you paint with all the colors of the wind?

This was an Animation of my childhood. My father gave it to me on VHS tape as a present on my 8th birthday (date can be confused). I enjoyed Pocahontas so much more than these other white Disney princesses. And of course I like Hayao Miyazaki, how he shows strong female characters. 

In reality boys are so often scared of strong women, they are afraid, when a girl can see all the crap that they have through a made up 'cool' personality. It takes time to learn how to appreciate truth and how to respond to gifts.

final project: rotoscoping

day 2 frame 35

I deleted facebook to no to get distracted, but there are still enough things that distract me around, 'cause I am working on my project at school. I am trying to be "angrier" and give up talking to people all the time, but then I see someone who I know, and I just genuinely want to interact.

Yesterday I left school at 3am and worked on animation around 7 hours before that. I was satisfied, though I had just 1 sec done. It takes a lot of time to get into the working process, and it took me time to figure out what exactly I am animating on live action footage and how to import in into Flash. But from now on I'm gonna move faster and at least have 6-7 (8,9,10,11,12 - as much as I can have but without manic fixation) hours a day of effective work, and I'm not gonna draw each frame entirely: it's each second frame and without background, just some characters.

Thanks to Yellow Submarine animation, Lucy in the sky with Diamonds song by The Beatles, and Waking Life's creators for the biggest inspiration. I really enjoy what I am doing. Life is magical.

And these are examples of music that I listen while working: 

Amorphous Androgynous - The Witchfinder

Cocorosie - Houses

The Beatles - Come Together

Перевод для мамы, папы, семьи и для всех желающих :)

Я удалила фейсбук (и вконтакте, хоть я и посещаю временами), чтобы не отвлекаться, но вокруг достаточно отвлекающих моментов, потому что я работаю в школе (и конечно еще высыпаюсь, чтобы быть в форме), и я стараюсь быть "злее" и не говорить с людьми все время, но потом я всегда вижу кого-то, с кем хочется искренне скоммуницировать.

Вчера я ушла из школы в 3 ночи, удовлетворенная после 7 часов работы над анимацией, хотя сделала всего 1 секунду от общей работы (всего 32 секунды анимации). Много времени занимает включение в рабочий процесс, и еще у меня заняло время нахождение стиля в котором я буду анимировать мой фильм, и как импортировать материал фильма во Flash. С настоящего момента я собираюсь работать быстрее или хотя бы с достаточной регулярностью, чтобы быть готовой с этой частью кино - это начальные титры - на уже следующих выходных (13,14 июля). Я рисую на каждом втором кадре, и не весь кадр целиком, а только некоторых персонажей.

Спасибо Yellow Submarine анимации, песни The Beatles "Lucy in the sky with diamonds", и фильму "Пробуждение жизни" за самое большое вдохновение. Я действительно получаю удовольствие от того, чем занимаюсь. Жизнь волшебна.

Специальный привет и любовь бабушке, с которой очень давно не говорила, Анечке, папе, и конечно дорогой матушке и всей семье.

So I need a location for shooting my Final Foundation movie. For 2-3 days in the end of June - First week of July.

My idea for location is a spacious room with almost no furniture or the furniture that could be moved away mostly. First to my mind came wooden floor or smth that looks like wood on the floor... And big windows - lighting will be crucial - I will try to use as much natural light as possible.

This room was too tiny, but I really took that picture for reference :)
And also windows will play conceptual role in showing what is the daytime outside.

My idea for a movie: it's a story about three dancers. Young woman tries to make a perfomance with two other guys. She forces them to do things and fails, and they leave her. So her task is an inner change, and movie should bring a feeling of hard breakthrough.

So far I have this place possible to rent out. This is VIVO gallery. If I volunteer long enough, they will let me use it.

The only concern - this place does not have hardwood-like floor.

So maybe it's not such a big of a deal? Maybe it will be good as it is, and VIVO at least has wooden benches. And a good thing - it will be not that easy to damage such floor, and I am not that sure about hardwood, for example.

If you have any place that could fit my needs, I will be glad to take a look. Preferably without any charge, but any variants will be considered. My plan is to look for some dance studios as well.

into the now

eckhart tolle - power of now. on english with russian subtitles
with sceneries.

directed by Michael Malfet, words by Eckhart Tolle.

calm down, observe now.

p.s. sober mind is such a treasure, when i work on my mind every day. it easily gets apathetic as any muscle that we don't use.

Film Photography

There are periods of my life, when I just make and make and make photographs. It's not that compulsive like it was before, still photographs have property to kind of settle on my computer and then on hard drive, just heading somewhere to eternity. 

(GO NOW signpost/ знак Go Now/ Иди Сейчас).

Film photography has always been very special to me. When I was 17, my first boyfriend gave me old russian camera Zenit as a birthday gift. It's an (electro)mechanical camera. It didn't have exposure meter, so I was exploring Zenit with the help of V. 

(All these three are view from my window/ Эти три - вид из моего окна).

When I was 15, my mother took me to Paris for a week. That time I was studying in high school and we chose a week in October to come there and spend time together. I had Canon EOS 300 with me, light film slr camera, which I used on auto mode. I used about 9 films there and was very surprised to find some really nice pictures after printing all of them. Quite soon I became obsessed with taking pictures. I was taking pictures of everything: small things, plants, myself, strangers and familiar people. I had stacks of photographs because I could only print the whole entire film to actually look through all the shots. I'm glad that one day I discovered that negatives can be scanned.
Before discovering film I had soap digital camera and even was playing around some editing programs, still it hadn't the thrill that film photography and even digital photography gave me.

In Van I was collecting rolls that I used, and during Christmas break I developed and scanned some. After I came back I started to use film Pentax again. I was putting rolls into special box until I got extremely ready or just sad and came to London Drugs with 2 of them. They developed and digitized them for $30, that is really extreme, though I don't regret at all. 

In the crumpled woods of my mind

In the crampled woods of my mind

little movie I've made.

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Final Motion Assignment. 

I believe that movie should be a moving paintings synchronised with music and sounds. So I made video and played with it's sound and picture in Adobe Premiere and in AfterEffects. Time for video was limited, though I made even more. My 1,5 minutes.

Maybe I will find myself in making music videos?

I don't know, but russian version of what I wanted to say appeared to be longer --->

А теперь по-русски:

У нас был такой предмет в этом модуле, который называется Motion 1. В нем нас посвящали в работу с Adobe AfterEffects. Программа, в которой можно и анимацию делать и играть с эффектами для видео, также всякие зеленый экран отправляется туда. Это мои финальные полторы минуты, для которых я снимала и потом игралась с ними в Премьере и АфтерЭффектс. Вообще для меня это стало счастьем, как и картины писать. Прибавить йогу, танцы, путешествия, языки, учиться музыке, - и жизнь моя будет сплошным свечением и стремлением в небеса свои внутренние прямо на земле.

Я верю, что кино должно быть двигающимися картинами, синхронизированными с музыкой и звуками. Может быть я найду себя в работе с музыкальными клипами?

Fibonacci sequence birdy

My 4seconds classical animation. 52 drawings

It has 3 layers: background, character and field guide, that is here for borders of animation.

Something strange happened with colors on the left, when I was capturing it all in Flipbook.

It's a very fast bird that becomes flower :)

I called it Fibonacci sequence bird, 'cause she has very specific path of her flight.

& What I see in you is perfect You.

 "Now: once I have tasted of that

Universe

Where WE ARE ALL US... This place:

That's the Sea of Love

Boy! I'm going to live in IT!

I'm Going to Be It!

 I'm going to SUBMERGE myself in It!

You gotta protect yourself.....

From What?

Love?

 Once you know there's NO PLACE to hide anyway

 Then

you wonder who are you hiding from?"

 (c) one of the Greatest Books Be Here Now

For Motion Design class I made work in AfterEffects. I do not own the music,

it's a song by JJ called "Pure Shores".

I would love to make longer videos full of beauty, playing with colors and effects :)

In the afternoon I get sentimental (c) Emily Wells.

It's uploaded to Youtube in the February of 2012 by WannaBuyAnAutomator with the words "Preview for the upcoming Dan The Automator project "Pillowfight" featuring Emily Wells with art by David Choe".

 So I don't know if it's finally released. Looks crazy and very sarcastic with Emily Wells and these hip-hop ass girls.

war is over

John Lennon & Yoko Ono

And love to you.

Edwars Sharpe & Magnetic Zeros video from "Big easy express" movie

And this is Sea of Dreams video

(Animation by Lucid Juice,

ARTWORK:
Luke Brown
spectraleyes.com
Keerych Luminokaya
luminokaya.com)

Like to be happy. <3

It's always pleasant when it appears that me from the past

took care for me in the future.

passenger

Music by Emily Wells, great canadian musician. Animation made by me for Motion design class.

Isn't life already 3d

And this is my astral fish plane. In the bowl, with lights.

Meghan Currie is big inspiration.

and great music in this video by Mark Gaboda - Good feeling.

Meghan Currie's channel on Youtube

BOOM

Most people are zombies, life is full of traps, I am full of angry EXPLOSIONS. I act like a zombie too when I don't do how I think or how I feel, when a corporate world makes me an inertive slave of fastfood and other people's desires. Think about yourself, mam. This is Freaky 13 right on the street. So the worst demons and bastards are stealing from the inside, when you are not aware of it. When you are just allowing it to happen.

"You have to realise that one day you will die. Until you know that, you are useless" (C) Chuck Palahniuk. Fight club

The Dust Brothers - This is your life. Original video taken from movie Fight club.

Ruines

I believe, beautiful art could save from endless sadness. From alienation created by ego behaviour. Art/creation distracts from continuos disappointment and brings new energy as much as caring about your home, yoga, intelligence improvement with books and researches made for better living with inner and outer worlds.

Sincere appreciation, gratitude are the only food that is acceptable for the heart. Only food needed for the heart goes from the other heart. 

Still pain can be a good base for masterpiece.

There is a huge insecurity for experienced ones to be opening again own world from inside out, and it's getting harder from month to month unless you meet someone who you can trust without scepticism. And the only path to be real to your friend is to uncover layers until you will get to the common nothing of sattva bliss.

 If you are lucky, once in a while you will get to absolute nudity and playful innocence, as much as it's possible amongst hypocritical walls. I wish we could be pure to each other.

Emily Wells performs her new song 'Passenger' live at the 2009 Calgary Folk Festival. 

Video downloaded byBamThwokCanada

this is where it goes

"Beyond all these is the possibility that civilization may be a huge technological success, but through methods the most people will find baffling, frightening, and disorienting - because, for one reason alone, the methods will keep changing. It may be like playing a game in which the rules are constantly changed without ever being made clear - a game from which one cannot withdraw without suicide, and in which one can never return to an older form of the game" (c) Alan Watts.


I would like you to see this movie about future made by Eran May-raz and Daniel Lazo as a graduation project form Bezaleal academy of arts.

original on vimeo

oh please go there for bliss

http://www.thenicestplaceontheinter.net/

The universe peoples

"We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean "waves", the universe "peoples". Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe. This fact is rarely, if ever, experienced by most individuals. Even those who know it to be true in theory do not sence or feel it, but continue to be aware of themselves as isolated "egos" inside bags of skin" Alan Watts.

it's buddha time.

As Far as I Can Get

In the end of the last term at VFS I made a drawn story for our Writing 1 class.

It was supposed to show Beginning, Dilemma, Discovery and The end of the story. 

Some of drawings appear to be very rough.

Have some fun, 'cause I did drawing it for about 20 hours :)

Enjoy

Movies:

Ruby Sparks released in 2012.

Directors: Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris

On  official site you can have a fun time

Detachment, 2012

director Tony Kaye

Such a heart-braking story,

that I want to watch again & again

to purify my mind.

Also I liked

russiness / vse budet horosho

This is postcard from 70s. 

It's a town where I was born. Shevchenko, in Kazakhstan, that was still USSR republic in late 80s. Now it's called Aktau, and it's a huge turistical city. Too modern, I guess, but I haven't been there since my parents left this place. I was 3. 

Years during and after USSR fell apart was really hard for people to get food, especially for distant places like Shevchenko. There could be no food delivery for long, and when it finally appeared in the store, there always was a line - people could spend hours waiting for the most necessary products.

90s in Russia are often recalled by enormous amount of crime & danger.

I wrote 'everything will be alright' on it. Vse budet horosho

*

About That Girl /third person camera/.

Here, now, if people ask you about me 'who is that girl?', they probably wouldn't have an idea what to say. Maybe they will answer: oh, she's that crazy russian.. And answer like that won't explain anything.

 

 (by dear friend Ivan Sakharof)