Animation Deux
Autumn falls and it's back to school! So now the time has come for me to make my second animation but unlike my previous film, I'm exploring some rather dark themes. I came across a rather chilling article about those who have committed rape and/or sexual assault on the time wasting website Reddit. [I'm fully aware of how contrasting this is to my last animation but oh well]. What struck me most about these stories was the sheer ignorance of the men*; some blamed the girls for being too "provocative", others just couldn't control their raging erection but in many of the of the cases, they didn't realise they were violating women. Despite the remorseful confessions, I found it difficult to feel sympathy for the writers but in an odd way, found them quite insightful. These are just some illustrations I did based on some sentences that stuck out to me.
*I don't mean to generalise here but most of them were written by men.
And here are a couple of line tests experimenting with portraiture and rotoscoping:
