This project will be all about Taxonomy; The practice and study of the classification of things or concepts.
The data collection is just a starting point though. I'm going to create a photographic reference board, if you will, and use them to create a final animation inspired by the original images.
As you may know from my previous work, I'm an aspiring stop-motion animator, so I want to collect materials that will ultimately allow me to work in my favourite medium.
Here's my idea brainstorm.
As you can probably tell, the best idea I've had is the one that will allow me to use Stop Motion as a medium. I'm going to collect images of books to start me off so I can start doing some concept art and storyboards, but my final piece will be a paper stop motion of a figure entering and emerging from fiction books (I think non-fiction will be too boring, and there aren't many characters to experiment with) with attributes of the book it has just exited. An example would be when it exists an Artemis Fowl Novel with a dapper suit or a Neutrino Blaster.
I know I'm going to enjoy this, my final idea made me more excited than all the others. Plus I definitely need to do more stop-motion animation, as I wasn't all too happy with my last project, but I now have a camera shutter remote and a determination to make myself proud with this project, because as they say, when it comes to the creative arts, the hardest person to please is yourself.
