a process. It’s often different from one project to another,
but that’s the fun of it. At some point I think that
changing the way I work for each project will help me
to try new things, recycle myself and prevent myself
from being stuck in a sphere of comfort. Getting rid
of my habits and being unstable shapes creativity. If
everything is planned from the beginning to the end,
then the rest of the work is only production. The only
thing that I know when I start a project is that there is
a result at the end.
On average how long
do you usually find you
spend on a project?
It really depends on the
project, but I think I am
working pretty fast. I work a
lot of consecutive hours at
times because I find it hard
to really get into the project
each time I start working on
it, and at every level of creation.
Sometimes it goes
really fast and I can make
a piece from the brainstorm
to the final piece in a couple
of days, and sometimes
I spend a lot of time thinking
and changing the concept
and produce the piece
quickly.
Judging on how intricate your work is, I imagine
the larger projects take a lot of time to build. What
is the longest time you’ve spent on one?
Umm... hard one! I don’t really calculate the time I
spend on my projects, usually because I am rarely
not thinking about them even when I’m at home or
involved in other activities. I think that the more complex
ones are the shorter ones actually. I find it is easier
to build some big pieces rather than the tiny ones.
I might say that the New York Times Magazine motion
piece took me the longest, even if it’s a five-second
film at the end! Each of the letters were cut out in different
colours and in white for the end title. It was a
headache trying to figure how many frames they had
to unroll to get to the final title. I wanted to have a
movement in the animation that would reveal the title
from right to left, and it needed to fit in that five-second
time frame with 12 fps. I am not going further on
this but it was a challenging project to make. Also, we
needed to make it during the night because I did not
have curtains in my office at this time, so the daylight
was constantly changing.
In stop motion, you need to
have a constant light if you
don’t want your animation
to flicker. Oh and thanks
a lot to my brother for this
one, even if he fell asleep on
my desk at some point...
Are there any individuals
or groups of people you
would like to work with
sometime in the future?
I would like to collaborate
with a lot of artists. There
are so many talented people
with different views on
design, and I would be curious
to see the result of a
merge of both works. To
name a few there are RGB6,
Hvass&Hannibal, Non-Format,
Rachel Thomas from
Big Active, and a lot more...
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