stop motion shorts

A few shorts and homework exercises I did in my stop motion class this semester:


CHALK THING from Marcie LaCerte on Vimeo.


Stratacut from Marcie LaCerte on Vimeo.


clay head expression (liveliness) from Marcie LaCerte on Vimeo.

Independent Study: A Compilation

I did an independent study this semester with my school's resident experimental animator. I completed three projects, though I consider my stop-motion final my fourth project because I spent sooooo much time on it. I wrote a bit about my process and inspiration on another blog, because my teacher was actually in Belgium for most of the semester, and yes he did read all of these posts, and yes I did do this for credit. I'm embarrassed too. Ok cool anyway here are the following animations I did, in order of creation:


手水 (16mm film) from Marcie LaCerte on Vimeo.


24 Frames On A Windy Bridge from Marcie LaCerte on Vimeo.


The Little Ships from Marcie LaCerte on Vimeo.

Storyboard

I took storyboard this semester, and though I got off to a bad start (in that I didn't turn anything in because I was too lazy), I think I made somewhat of a breakthrough, and the technical aspects I learned have helped me a lot. So, here are my two favorite storyboards. To make it interesting for myself, I made them extremely ridiculous and a bit NSFW. (You have been warned.)

The teens at my internship really love the cereal one. I was insecure about showing it, but the instructor really wanted me to (god bless her), and when I expressed this insecurity to one of the students, she was like, "We are the 'Shrek is love, Shrek is life' generation, and nothing scares us," and I was like, tru.

ANYWAY HERE:

The Tragedy of Heloise and Abelard (in progress animatic) from Marcie LaCerte on Vimeo.

cereal commercial animatic from Marcie LaCerte on Vimeo.

Half a year later whoops

Hello there! It's been a while, hasn't it? Many things have happened. Namely, an entire semester.

I've been very productive this semester, thanks to a few wonderful teachers who allowed me a lot of freedom to play around with animation and art. I'm much happier than I was at this time last year, and I'm already starting to feel sentimental for my upcoming graduation this winter. I have a lot more friends than I did last year, too. It's all very bittersweet.

I'll be posting most of my art in subsequent, pre-scheduled posts, because THEY EACH DESERVE A SEPARATE POST. I am sorry I have neglected this blog for so long. I was just wondering to myself why I was feeling so creatively dry, and I think it's because I haven't been writing at all recently; I've just been producing and working and toiling away at various projects. That's the thing about animation/film—you stick with a single idea for much longer than you really want to, even if you've already mentally moved on from the whole concept. The actual execution takes much, much longer than one might anticipate, and much of the labor is conceptually (though not technically) mindless.

Anyway, I'M BACK, and hopefully I'll post more in the future. I haven't been taking a lot of pictures, but I will try to do that more in the upcoming months. This summer, I'm going to be a TA, take two classes for credit, take one class for fun, provide animation assistance on my teacher's upcoming film, work on my senior project, curate an experimental film festival, and hopefully finish a stop-motion animation for fun (Thporth!!). LOL KILL ME I AM ICARUS. Bye.

various figures

I took a figure painting class this semester, so I only went to, like, one figure drawing co-op. I kind of suck at painting but whatever, man. I have no time to do anything. Here's some stuff.

this is my fave figure from the semester, even tho her head and body are totally disproportionate