Introduction to Animation
Point of View Project
Below shows the same video on different platforms and I am sending two in case one does not work.
Project Brief：
This animation is about my evaluative perfectionism when creating something. Evaluative perfectionism makes me doubt my works in comparison to other works with better skills and creativity. I tend to get really stressed out by this so I decided to make a film that allows me to reflect on this issue as well as to embrace the current skills I got instead of degrading myself.
Part one of the film which visualizes my pressure is visually inspired by Masaaki Yuasa. I found that the exaggerated transformation of the human body he uses would match my visualization of anxiety
and ‘Mind Game’ (2004) which he directed blows my mind with the power of expressive, almost mutative, changes to a human body that can convey strong emotions.
The second part is about my realization and self-salvation. I came up with the idea of becoming butterflies after entering the world inside the canvas which devours me as I get lots more stressed.
I allow myself to fly around and explore the hidden world which means giving myself enough time and ample space to stop and look around what I own. In this way, I can be relieved from the cage I
made me out of a blank canvas, which implies zero progress.
I made a video in Mental Canvas about flying up in the sky. This application allows me to create several layers and travel through them. I really like Chinese ink paintings and am amazed by abstract brushstrokes which create descriptive scenes. Appreciation of the beauty of Chinese ink paintings inspires my choice of self-salvation. It would be so comforting for me to be inside such views and, therefore, I let myself breathe and rest inside a painting away from the stress.
This project aims to giude the stressful me when creating and this has been an really enjoyable journy for my realization of the issues and for my effort of trying to resolve the problems. I felt relieved to dig the poisionous piece of me and record the rescue by animation.