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From You to Me: A Conversation with Animation

From You to Me: A Conversation with Animation

Leah Coleman

MFA Digital Animation and Interactive Media, 2020

 

Abstract:

The film focuses on a young girl named Renee, who struggles to start on her next project. She is then confronted by a figure who sends her to a dreamlike environment where she encounters 3 figures who challenge her to move past her fears of the unknown (future). With this, she realizes how much she’s grown, but also what she must do, and that’s to move forward!

Integrating both 2D and 3D mediums, the film is a little over 3-minutes, focusing on a conversation between artist and animation. Inspired by a letter written to animation, the film is described as animation responding to the letter, encouraging the artist in the film to face their fears of the future by confronting the problems they have to face in the now. Animation in this instance is personified by the idea that one can speak to animation through the motion and gestures of each frame. Telling them the artist to keep drawing, and animation will respond by moving.

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