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Animation within live environments
Animation within live environments
Can augmented reality or responsive environments be used to create real time analog style handdrawn animation within live environments?
The project will allow me to research what immersive technologies can be used in order to create 2D hand drawn animation within live environments. I want to learn about the different immersive technologies available, particularly focusing on augmented reality, as a way of incorporating live animation into live performance and if this is even possible.
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£5,000
Aims of the project
I will explore how traditional and analogue animation techniques can be combined with current immersive technology and what effects this can create. I am interested in incorporating audience participation into the work, allowing audience members and other collaborators can use the technology themselves to create their own animation or add to the live animation.
I want to explore the themes of intergenerational trauma, and being stuck in a never-ending trauma loop, and how this technique can reflect these themes in new and exciting ways. Also using soundscapes to explore how communication can get lost or distorted. I will also explore the feasibility of using this technique in helping other people to process trauma, mental health issues or intergenerational trauma, through the use of workshops and collaborative performances.
Lucy Anne Watkins
Lead artist and animator
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Lucy Anne Watkins is a multidisciplinary filmmaker and animator. Her work combines live action with 2d hand drawn and stop motion animation. She often utilises traditional and analogue techniques in her work, and experiments with cyanotype printing. She has created music videos, title sequences and other animated content for artists and clients from all over the world. She has a BA in Film and writes screenplays. She also helps facilitate a photographic community darkroom in Cardiff.
Her work covers themes of motherhood, female and Welsh identity, intergenerational trauma and mental health, and often has darkly comic and surreal undertones.
