I am amazed that I have not actually created a stop motion, or frame-by-frame animation using artwork that I have created, I am hugely inspired by art and wacky artists.
It will be hard to include something from an artists imagination in my own work, it would be hard to include anything in my film from my imagination as well, because of the small budget that I will be working with. It would have been brilliant though.
I am so inspirted by people like Tim Burton, Edward Gorey, Patricia Piccinini, Dr. Seuss, John Tenniel etc. There are so many people that have such intricately weaved worlds from their own minds, that I would have loved to create a short diving deeper into a world on the same level of complexity and detail.
The inspiration that all of my favourite artists have on me is still present in the work I will be doind, live action footage rather than animation, but in an easier and more realistic form. Elements of all of my inspirations will hopefully creep into the work and like the homage I will be paying to my favourite directors and producers, there will be moments where the shot looks as if from an art piece or artistically weird world.
I simply would have loved to have created a short about my own weird world, with fully living and breathing characters. Obviously to an extent I am, the unnamed and un-classifiable time period makes it quite surreal and like something from an artists world. The point I am trying to make, I think, is that I would have really liked to have created a world from scratch, with weird buildings, characters etc. like a Tim Burton world or Dr. Seuss one.
In my own way however I am creating my own world as there is no set date or place to my piece and it does not, or will not appear to look completely similar to reality and earth, so in that sense there is definetely something fantasy like about it, or there definetely will be as I have not filmed it yet.
