Assignment Write-up - Masking

TC
Motion graphics
3.28.2007

The purpose of this assignment was to familiarize ourselves more with masking and how to do various kinds of masks.

My concept deals with dragons, and the various representations of dragons. I took a more straightforward, literal approach with this. Dragons are thought of as mysterious, mystifying creatures, and I wanted to personify this mythical creature's existence. I wanted to portray that aspect by never fully showing the dragon’s face, so as to keep it/him off-limits to the viewer, both his face and his actual expression. Toward the end of the piece, there is a blinking dragon's eye, but it's without a face, still to keep you at a distance, or to wonder what/how exactly this creature feels and thinks.

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I did find some difficulty in actually executing/remembering what some of the steps were to do particular masks. I think I just need to work with them more, because I have a tendency to stay away from using masks all together. I do think I'll go back and redo/add to the graphics portion of this at a later time.