stop motion animation
average joe
- 2 minutes and 6 seconds
- real size skeleton model
- Concordia University, Montréal, Canada. 2014.
This project is a stop motion animation that portrays the routine life of Average Joe. Its intention is to show that life is a journey of adventures and experiences. And it is only through adventure and experience that a person can truly feel alive. The skeleton symbolizes death. Moreover, the grayscale represents a boring, plain, and uninteresting life.
I was inspired by Alan Watts’s speech, Living Fully Now, which I have also used in my stop motion animation. As for the technical side of this project, each movement consists of hundreds of images that were carefully shot when moving the skeleton. The skeleton was moved using strings, which were erased in Photoshop before working in AfterEffects to make the stop motion.
Credit: Living Fully Now speech by Alan Watts from Truth by Dexter Britain
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