There is a time early on when you try anything and it seems great because you tried it. I really got into sculpture but was gifted a couple of clumps of clay and figured why not……
When learning new things my first goto is using letters for me to experiment, after all letters are my first love. Like previously stated, I drew out my favorite comic book and cartoon characters but letters where the first subject that completely engulfed me. My first paintings … which were illegal… was letters and this was after years of drawing letters…. so back to the clumps of clay….. This was like 2004, 2005ish and thought I stumbled on to new territory…. Sculpting Graffiti pieces…. thats something else thats really fun… thinking you got a brand new idea but come to find out it s been done before… so while not “original” it shows that you are thinking along the lines of people who admire and consider Genius….. So around this time I was also in the early stages of figuring out to edit video … and was already figuring out animation…
I had a camera… probably a decent megapixels for the time but now would be laughable or used in order to mimic time when lower resolutions were standard.. because they were high at the time… talking the days of like 3 or 5 megapixels…. And got the idea for a claymation…. we was raised watching Gumby so had a concept of how it was done. I figured being the “sculpture” was already completed… I wanted to animate it forming… so “built” a stage of card board with white paper and set the sculpture on it… an early idea too was that maybe I’d key out the white and digitally create a background for it.. but never got around it that …
But I did do… was deconstruct the sculpture piece by piece and took a photo .. .moved a piece… took a photo… all the way down to it just being a clump of clay again… then took the images into final cut lined em up so that they would go from clump to the form and for funsies.. reversed it to make it a little longer… also made the beat that is playing in the background….
What a great time …….