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My students are rad.
Forty high schoolers in my beginning drawing class worked together to create a collaborative homage to Eadweard Muybridge. The idea was generated, expanded, and executed by students in class. A small team of volunteers aided me in the projecting/filming the finished .GIF's around our hometown.
PROCEDURE:
After a few weeks of basic observational drawing, each student picked and studied a frame from Eadweard Muybridge's movement studies, imagining the skeletal and muscular structure of the figures. After each frame was drawn, the sketches were scanned and compiled into a .GIF, which was then projected (via rusty gas generator) out of a moving vehicle (while we tried to avoid carbon monoxide poisoning).
Forty high schoolers in my beginning drawing class worked together to create a collaborative homage to Eadweard Muybridge. The idea was generated, expanded, and executed by students in class. A small team of volunteers aided me in the projecting/filming the finished .GIF's around our hometown.
PROCEDURE:
After a few weeks of basic observational drawing, each student picked and studied a frame from Eadweard Muybridge's movement studies, imagining the skeletal and muscular structure of the figures. After each frame was drawn, the sketches were scanned and compiled into a .GIF, which was then projected (via rusty gas generator) out of a moving vehicle (while we tried to avoid carbon monoxide poisoning).
FOUNDATIONS ART STUDENTS / ARTISTS:
| Adam Porter Agustin Mendoza Alan Garcia Alex Yardley Ariadna Salgado Bre Taylor Brennon Peterson Cameron Christensen Christopher Roach | Clarrisa Smith Dayton Kinzer Eileen McFadden Emma Leon Emmaline Thompson Gabriel Reid Hailey Ivins Hao-Yih Hsieh Jeffrey Watts | Julia Peek Justin Austin Kaitlyn Black Kaylie Warnick Keiffer da Silva Kolby Enosa Marcus de la Cruz Mason Brockbank Max Ensign | Megan Pelton Nick Bishop Ruben Fonua Sean Pepers Trenton Chanhthala Ty Sorensen Zachary Hardester |
TEACHER:
Clark Goldsberry
Special Thanks to Michelle Landers, Timpview High School, Provo, Utah.
Clark Goldsberry
Special Thanks to Michelle Landers, Timpview High School, Provo, Utah.
Also, in case you'd like to try something similar, here are each of the frames as taken by Eadweard Muybridge.
RUNNING
JUMPING
Also, this was the beginning of our .GIF explorations. After our first day drawing the human skull (a series of three-minute drawings) a student suggested that we could scan the drawings and compile them into a .GIF, creating the illusion of a rotating skull. This simple suggestion changed the course of our entire curriculum. After the enthusiasm generated by our first .GIF, we began bouncing ideas around and exploring collaborative animation—which was new to all of us.
Inspiration:
LIFE DRAWING ANIMATION (from a life drawing class)
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