Stuck up- another animated masterpiece

Simple animatic showing the premise of the film

It certainly is getting to the end of the semester because that impending sense of doom is only growing. They’ve become such an encouragement to get all these films and assignments done. Outside of studio work, I am animating a documentary for my “Animation as Documentary” class and I am so excited at what I have undertaken.

My final for this class is a documentary on where people stick stickers. It is a form of ethnography fitted into a poetic documentary illustrating the graffiti-esque nature of sticker application in a public setting. One thing to note in this piece is that it’s about placement, putting stickers on places like street signs, utility poles, crosswalk lights, etc. is a form of rebellion on par with traditional graffiti. The film focuses on these places rather than stickers placed on cars, water bottles and laptops because those are more an expression of the personality of the owner of those objects; granted some of the messages portrayed may be calling for social change or rebellion. The two placements described are different and distinct, and warrant films of their own accord but I will be focusing on the former.

This is an example video of the style of animated work that I am going for

One thing about collecting the assets for this piece is I look like a crazy person as I wander around examing utility poles and signs up and down and up close. BUT what I didn’t expect is the excitement I instill in others as they hear what I am doing and being seeing the world in a new way: the way I am seeing it. “Oh Riley there is another sticker over here”, “This place is covered in stickers!!”, “This one is so funny I am going to get a photo of it for myself”,”Did you capture the stickers I’ve stuck around here?”. This kind of enthusiasm has only grown my excitement for the piece. The complicated part is the framing and precision it will take to get every sticker to smoothly pass on screen humorously to “Overture to the Marriage of Figaro” by Ludwig Von Behtoven. The music and subject matter create an interesting blend of high and low art that I am going to use effectively in this film.

Short and simple motion test. REALLLLLYYYY proud of the precision I got here