Barbara Hepworth

I like Barbara's work as she has neat-looking sculptures that look carefully-made. The forms she's created are interesting and give a feel of new dimensions. There's some negative space being created which makes new shapes. Also, I like the concepts she has made. For example, the one below. She has meaning behind all the sculptures and I like how her work's been thought out yet seem a little abstract. I like the curved lines because they dont always have to be perfect straight lines.

Journey Artist Research

Julian Opie

In my research I have found an artist that I really like, Julian Opie. I like their work as pop art can be considered old and modern. Their main art is pop art. However, they've also done photo prints and digital work. Their digital work includes animations that experiment with real-life objects which are then used and animated with realistic movement (most likely used with reference from his own images). His work is also minimalistic, which is nice as the idea of journeys can be minimalistic, and I like showing a little but telling a lot at the same time. The crisp look of Julian's work is really calm to look at and therefore I plan to achieve that type of smooth appearance by doing my work on an illustration programme. I also may consider using white and black acrylics to make grey tones. The portraits he has done were produced digitally which gives them clean lines.

Research on animators

Studio ghibli

Studio ghibli uses a 2D software programme. They try to achieve 24fps in order to make the animation a bit more still, creating steady motion which is still smooth enough to look as if characters and objects are moving. This is common with Japanese animation.

DreamWorks pictures

DreamWorks use 3D animation, 3-dimensional animations are typically 60fps to get the ideal smooth animation. They also use CGI. I like their films and work as they are really good with colour schemes and pathetic fallacy.

Tex Avery

This American director did a series of traditional animation. Some include "Jerky Turkey" and "Red hot rangers". Most of his animations were in 20-30fps.

Pendleton Ward

Pendleton Ward is an American animator who worked to create Cartoon network shows such as "Adventure time".

Tim Burton

This animator tends to do stop motion animation. His animations are popular for having smooth stop motions and some CGI.

Stop motion animation