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Land and Power: 2nd Woodcut concept piece

this is a sencond print i have made using the linocut technique. It shows the farmer stepping out of his woodcut print frame to water a plant in a diffrent frame.
I want to use the frames as a metephore the the land that the farmer owned.

 

illustrator screen shot of print to be lazercut

Land and Power: Woodcut/linocut

This weekend ive been having another go at Lino cutting for my project, ive been trying to recreate the style of Fred Mutebi. instead to woodcutting i've been using lino as its quicker and easier but gives a very similar effect. I couldn't print the colour with separate blocks as I didn't have the time so i put colour down in watercolour and then printed on top with the lino.

Im very pleased with these prints.  and i really enjoyed making them, but im unsure how i can animate in this style, id really like to lino cut and print each frame, but that would take me a very long time and cost a lot, im going to look into recreating the effect digitally or i also thought about using a Lazer cutter to cut out each frame and then printing them, this could save time and still have the nice printed effect.

Major Project: Land and Power

This year I plan to direct one major film. I have been commisioned by british charity Oxfam to create a short 2 min animation to be part of there campaign agains Land Grabbing.

• Land grabbing is the contentious issue of large-scale land acquisitions: the buying or leasing of large        pieces of land in developing countries, by domestic and transnational companies, governments, and individuals. 

After researching the topic and reading the documentation I was sent I started brainstorming ideas for a film.

Something that stood out to me was the way that people, in the various case studies I read, really depended on the land that was being taken away from them. The land was not only there home but the only source of food and only source of income, without the land they had not access to education and no way of making money or food to feed there families. 

I plan for one of the main focuses of my film to be how everything comes from the land.

A form of art that really interests me is Woodcuts and printmaking and I think it relates to the subject nicely, so i have been researching forms of woodcutting and printmakers.

Ive been having a go with my own Relief printmaking using lino, I love the look of the prints but unsure how I can make this work when animated.

I came across a ugandan printmaker named Fred Mutenbi, his work is beautiful and full of colour and life, i'm looking into a way of possibly animating in his style.

Ive had a go at reproducing a couple of his pieces, using watercolour and pen, to get a feel for his style.

Another art form i've been looking at is indonesian shadow puppetry, Ive been doing some research into traditionally made leather puppets.

Ive been putting my ideas down in quick thumbnail storyboards, and brought these together to create a very rough storyboard.

Below are a couple of character that i have picked out of the Fred Mutenbi prints, this is how i'm imagining my characters in the film to look, Im still unsure how this will be animated.

Ruth Lingford: Pleasures of War (1999)

Woodcut Animation by Alex b clark

breaking the 4th wall

Felix the cat breaks the 4th wall and asks the animator for some help





in out of the inkell, the animators interact with the cartoons and the clown leaves the paper





and a sequel to Duck amuck



lists of other cartoons here