July 2020 – YEAH lingbo

Some shares about abstract artworks. This exhibition reminds me of our JTU project although we are not doing it in this kind of style. I admit that although I tried hard to understand these works is not an easy thing, I only can get some inspiration from the surface of these works like the style, colour, composition and painting skills.

The streamline of these human bodies is very active and beautiful. It is hard for me to draw the human body with a sense of relaxing. I always make the outline very stiff. And the colour they use is really harmonious although including various colours. I think to some extent it depends on the area that the main colour took, that could set the colour tone for the whole work.

This work is the most interesting one in the exhibition. I stand in front of this work for a long time because of the abundant content this work including. I think abstract arts is not necessary to have an exact meaning, everybody could have different thoughts about it and this is the feature of it.

An idea came to me after I watched this animation.

This animation really inspired me, both the story and the art style. It describes the journey of a man who suddenly met a car accident and died. He met death manager and ask for an answer. It’s not just a simple story, it discusses not just this man’s whole life also the other people’s. And it talks about the circle of people’s life so it’s a bit deep. The style of this work is really beautiful. Every scene has a well-designed composition and colour tone like illustrations.

Also, the design of the death manager makes me feel its power because of the action of this character extremely fits its personality. It is powerful, seems to know the rule about this world and it shows them to this man, and to the audience as well.

I find that only use the colour blocks to create characters is a nice choice. It seems smoother than the character with an outline and it may save some times for the cleanup job. I’m considering to do the grad film in this way.

My idea inspired by this film is, I also want to tell a story that happened after a man’s death and it is just a story not a discussion about the death itself. This man doesn’t want to leave his world because he made some mistakes before and he so regrets about it because he hurts someone. He begging the death to let him fix it otherwise he won’t go. So the death gives him another chance. I didn’t finish the end yet. The point is I want this story to be this man’s misunderstanding, he will find even he fix this mistake nothing will change. I want to express people should look forward and keep going.

Month: July 2020

Some thoughts of grad film.