Silence — The Anh

breathing life into a static artwork

Core Idea: hand-animating a static artwork in real-life to describe how it grew
Medium: Motion graphics
Outcome: a hand-drawn animation
Year: 2024
Time spent: 3 weeks

finding words to describe Silence
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original hand animation + ambience

a reverse-engineering attempt to rewind my static artwork, where i practiced drawing with symmetry
inevitably i failed. i am only human.
i animated off of feeling
longing to describe how they grew and what i saw

i saw shapes, lines and the transitions between them.
and beyond the shapes and their compositions….

who are the big bedrock world-building bois
who are the ornamental offspring that followed along
do they grow slowly across spaces
or rush to get to their destination
do they move like a flower blooming
or more like a computer

where do they start and end,
what they gave birth to or left behind
do they care for noone else or do they guide others
waiting for the others to catch up for themselves to keep going

i keep seeing eyes and faces
eye sockets cheekbones nose bridges chins
if only i could coax my own skin
away from this face,
away from this reality
(i think) this is what i’d see

Close-ups (linework version + post-processed version)

how it works - a simple cover-up process, then reversed to create the ‘correct’ flow of the drawing.
The faint under-markings of many colors were to help me manage specific relationships between certain lines. (i.e Green is for big mainframe lines, and Blue for lines that move together, and Orange for special lines, etc.)

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