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

Assignment 1

Assignment 2

Final project

The Timed Exam is a video mini-story compiled from a series of animated gif files. Designed and animated in Adobe Photoshop, this creation explores numerous animation techniques as well as a philosophically centered theme of time and motion. In a technical sense, this animated visual makes use of cinematic and animation techniques as well as a unique design style to embellish the atmosphere of the storyline. More specifically, these techniques are utilized to emphasize as well as to enhance the audience’s experience of time and motion.

Philosophically, this piece aims to express a notion of a standard time and an experienced time. Throughout the story, the standard time is portrayed by the ticking hand of a clock, it is something that we all observe. On the other hand, the experienced time is often personal and are perceived uniquely by different individuals. I created this story in an attempt to artistically render this unique feeling of time, and I’ve done so through exploring the interconnection between the change in time versus the change in motion.

Ultimately, by expressing the existence of varying time and motion, The Timed Exam contests the audience to explore their own unique sense of time as well as realize the complexity of this incredible system.