The animation test

http://www.karelpolt.com/becoming

Here's a Flash test animation of the image below. I changed the colour of the shirt, so I would 'merge' with the wall, as if I'm part of it. Or something.

At the moment there are three variables - the eyes, the nose and the chin/mouth. They have different degrees of manipulation and different speeds, so theoretically you are never looking at the same image. Or at least not any time soon after starting the animation. All the three elements change individually from each other. This is exactly the kind of randomness I wanted for the animation. Now, if I was to add more variables (ears, top of the head) the resulting monster/human would have even more ways of being.

But, I at the moment I am at a stage, where I am pretty sure that this will not happen. Followed by the very bad feedback from last week's group tutorial, I have no reason to pursue with this. I was told, that the image lacks meaning, is empty, doesn't communicate any (!) ideas, is pretentious, boring, under-developed and not sophisticated enough. Also, the apparently, the animation looks as if it is a loop of me looking normal and turning into a monster and back. :(

I've been taking new photos this week. Will post them here soon.