HUM 203: The World in Motion, Animation in Theory and Practice

Assignment 1

Assignment 2

Final project

One Night – Brian Britigan

One Night is an animation that explores the way in which a writer and his surroundings experience the passage of time. Using multiple panels, the animation focuses on the writer, a plant on his desk, a television, a window, and a dripping bottle of ink. Through the course of the animation, the viewer is able to see how the transition from night today affects each of the “characters.”

The animation was created using Macromedia Flash, a program that allowed me to create a multi-layered animation that would have been very difficult to make in Photoshop. Flash allowed me to present several different scenes at once, creating an animation with multiple subjects and focuses. One Night is intended to give the viewer an understanding of how time is an embodied experience; each of the subjects in the animation experiences it in a different way. For the plant, time passes slowly; for the writer, however, there is barely enough time to finish his story. The animation shows that time is not a constant flow - it is experienced phenomenologically.