Final Project- Little Red Riding House

Final Product:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRJ63idCb88&context=C4c4d875ADvjVQa1PpcFO9VU_JvpmCyCnLEFiUJBjIdHP-Vmxb83I=

This project is an animation created based on the idea of time-stop collage animation. I hand drew images, uploaded them into the computer and collaged them digitally.

Project Description:

The project is entitled "little red riding house" and combines the ideas of escapism and feminism to create a cyclical animation. I heavily researched escapism through media (specifically film and television) in our society since spring break and wanted to center my project around that idea at the onset. Escapism is arguably an experience that can be associated with all art, which is partially why I found it fitting to explore. However, I wanted to move outside of the traditional art world and into that of mass media, which is more telling about our society. At the present I feel that fairy tales is one of the most prominent genres being explored in American film and television. With this idea in mind I knew I wanted to create something involving film using the idea of escapism. As I continued to develop my project I decided to embrace and negate escapist tendencies simultaneously. To do this I wanted to create a situation in which viewers normally find themselves falling in to (such as a familiar story like little red riding hood) while subtly undermining it through images that don't match the story as the viewer knows it. In considering this I decided to pick another theme to use in my project. I decided to use feminist ideas after the lecture we had towards the end of the semester. Little red riding house represents women (through the symbolism of the house) when she picks the flower it is representative of the reclaiming of her femininity. The wolf in a business suit is the male dominant political debates over women's rights and their destruction of a woman's familiar choices. However when the house is destroyed it still creates a flower thus showing that femininity and the choices of women will survive even if torn down time and again by political turmoil. I put a lot of time and thought into this project and I am pleased with the results as well as the reaction of my classmates in class.

Additional Images/Information

This is an example of a scanned image that is used in the walk cycle.
The image on the right was "cut out" using the magnetic lasso tool in photoshop
and then re-sized and placed in the appropriate spot on the background
to create a segment of the walking cycle.

This is an example of what one panel of the animation looks like.
There are 4 separately drawn images (flower, girl, wolf, grass) collaged on a photoshopped background.
There are approximately 75 different panels in the 40 second clip.
I hand drew approximately 25 images to create the collages.