Climate change- sand sculpture animation

ammonite (67)in #art • 7 years ago (edited)

Watch Sand sculpture animation for Oxfam video on DTube

So Dtube is now up and running. Sounds like it has great possiblities. As I said in my intro post I am also a bit of a film maker and am looking forward to sharing some of my film projects with the steemit community, But for now as a test of Dtube I uploaded this small clip.

This is a sculpture I did in 2009 for Oxfam Ireland. They asked me to create a simple sculpture for a photo press call based on an advertisment they were going to air on television to get people aware of climate change. It was carved within a few hours for the shoot at 12pm and then i had the rest of the day to play.

I decided rather than just destroy the sculpture I would experiment with taking it down in a creative way. My nephew Nathaniel was on hand as a photographer so I set about carving away the figure to reveal flesh then bone and finally away to nothing. Nathaniel taking photos at each step. Then with a bit of creative editing I turned it into this animation where the figure comes into being. Finally, I got my wonderful wife who I had just met at the time to do the voice over.

I really did it as an experiment for myself. to try this technique out for future projects.Of course I gave a copy to Oxfam as a gift.

It was actually a fun little project and it was so nice to meet Mary Robinson who was the UN commissioner for human rights as well as one of Ireland's most popular presidents a few years before.

Ps

Dtube certainly has great possibilities especially with its connection to the Steemit network. Wishing @heimindanger all the best with its development.

For those interested here is a link to the original advertisement on the youtubes

Here you can check out my last post of some ice sculpture work

Why are we here?

Thanks for joining me. I hope to bring you more filmwork soon. This post is a bit of a test
@ammonite

#animation #sand #sculpture #dtube

7 years ago in #art by ammonite (67)

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johnyliltoe (55) 7 years ago

Neat idea. What I think would be really cool is a sort of time-capsule sculpture. One with layers of different materials that erode at different rates, so that 50 years down the road a new sculpture emerges naturally, then maybe 200 years later a new one is revealed from the last layer eroding.

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ammonite (67) 7 years ago

That a cool idea. I really like when sculptures become time based. Friends of mine recently made a clay sculpture in London and had it under a shower of water so over a few days it melted away. I'll root out a timelapse I made of a similar idea. Your idea has really got me thinking.

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