Black UniGryphon's Main Blog of Arts: February 2019

I just wanted to post my Animation Work through the years, and follow it up by including some of my goals.

* PLAYLIST:
Here's my old Vintage Stuff from the 1990s-2000s from UARTS N AIPH (Philadelphia):

It's mostly an archive of clips. I did have a demo reel or 2 or 3 but I kind of hate it by now and also can't find it/them at the moment plus they had copyright music on them.

* PLAYLIST:

My UMASS Boston Animation N Art Stuff

(Still wrapping up the last few goals N projects still):

* PLAYLIST:
* Post UMASS Boston:

This is a compilation mash-up music video of the Motion Graphics Animations from UMASS Boston N Post UMASS Boston from 2016-2018:

* My Current ArtStation Portfolio

* My Current Vimeo Filmmaker Portfolio

A slapped-together mash-up of some of the ideas n conceptual stuff i wanted to do since UMASS Boston (2017) which I'd also included in some pitches & proposals. But I still have my own original vision of them as well. They're very rough:

So, progress takes time... but, sometimes it also means taking breaks, which is a hard lesson. Anyways, that's just the rough conceptual stuff. I've definitly blogged about those before, so I'll skip the details. Those will remain rough for the moment. I WILL however be pushing to move more into the Traditional Animation direction, but with the fusion of digital & traditional art.

Once I wrap THIS stuff up this year, I will NEVER be doing puppet animation a a main focus EVER AGAIN in my own PERSONAL WORK. I AM MOVING ON FOREVER. But, I am reaching a number of my own goals with the digital end, and learning the software. But, the more I do puppets & curves animation, and stuff like that the MORE I KNOW IN MY HEART that I am a traditional artist N animator, and that COMPUTERS ARE TOOLS and NOT a substitute for ART and ARTISTS.

I will STILL defend artists that do vectors n puppets because they have value, so I won't become a big snob over that stuff. It's JUST not for me tho'. I actually do like a lot of motion graphics stuff tho' like moving pictures/scenery or "Plotographs".

But for now, it's just a Work-In-Progress:

Addressing Narrative Bias N Story-telling Work:

Look, I get it. Not everyone goes to study film in Academia, so people are conditioned to BELIEVE that cinema, films, and cartoons MUST therefore ALL tell a story.

* I also realize MANY of the criticisms literally are coming from children pretending to be grown-ups online, or even older men that never studied in academia about Arts & Cinema and have a skewed ignorance about what "Experimental" means. (Also the irony that ignorant stances of folks get triggers by pointing out that its ignorance without understanding what the definition of "ignorant" and "ignorance" means and taking it as tho' it were a derogatory word, when it isn't.)

* It's also very odd to have people literally condensed to me about my work, and when I explain it they accuse me of being condescending. *face-palm*

So, I will eventually be doing story-telling stuff. I mean, if you follow my Snapchat, I tell stories ALL THE TIME just by being ME. But I DO NOT WISH to make a full story of ANYTHING unless I can have more time & practice with things like mood, timing, lighting, software, and practicing the animation itself.

A major problem I personally have with "Tweening Animators", "Curves Animators", "3D Animators", "Puppet Rig Animators", and many forms of "digital animators" is they often flagrantly ignore animation rules, but not as a form of comedy but due to laziness or ignorance.

And, I'm not saying they MUST follow animation rules because I say so, like some arrogant old punk. But, I just want to strive and do better FOR MYSELF. I CAN DO BETTER, BE BETTER, and STRIVE for a better expression of art, THEN THAT IS WHAT I WANT FOR MYSELF.

Me wanting MORE for myself doesn't detract from YOU as an artist or an ANIMATOR.

I can be open minded enough to love, support, and VALUE your work as a whatever kind of animator YOU feel happy and comfortable doing N being, but I can also hold those views N stances WITHOUT having to be a conformist to them.

Look, I AM A TRADITIONAL ANIMATOR in my heart. I will ALWAYS BE THAT. Right now, I'm doing a lot with digital stuff, and there's room for Traditional Animation & Traditional Art within the Digital worlds and vice versa.

I'm STILL on this journey...

Maybe you can't see what I see, or get it. Maybe you can't understand it.

But, I am a LOT of things, and I MUST be TRUE N Authentic TO MYSELF BEFORE I can be true to you, and anyone else. There's also NO reason ANYONE ought to feel threatened by these things either. I am also a Philosopher, and Photographer, and Filmmaker. So those things won't be going away. Accept me FOR ME. Because I CAN be open minded enough to accept YOU for YOU.

I am planning on doing some Commentary videos with animation to address a lot of this stuff FOR FREE.

Anyways, all of this stuff I just posted above is for practice, and I will be eventually creating my Qilin Film!
That's the first big goal!

Hopefully within the next 2 years, I'll be a able to make it there! But, I'm having a funding problem at the moment, and I STILL need a WACOM Cintiq!

Much of my motion graphics works are to help me with coloring, lighting, timing, digital keyframing, and software practice. These things make sense to me.

But, I do actually have 2 other stories that I still have, and have also been blogging about for a few years.

They were 2 concepts that I started since my teenage-hood. I did recently acquire some software to help me get there, but things can only be done step-by-step but as 1 step at a time.

Those 2 STORY concepts are:

and

"Zenith Beyond Eclipsing The Dragon's Rue"

But, I am a LOOOOOOOOOOONG way away from reaching N achieving THOSE 2 things.

But, I BELIEVE I CAN REACH IT!

I hope my dream might become YOUR DREAM AS WELL.

Anyways, like I keep saying in my older blogs: I only have the rest of my life left to live, so I'd better do what matters to me as an artist.

Also, narrow minded N prejudiced folks are gonna need to get over the fact that I'm also a photographer, and that I shoot video N film/cinema.

I'm NOT sorry that I like those things, and include them within my art, because I'm NOT WRONG.

They will NOT be going away, at all, ever.

Me in Cosplay in a TV project still WIP, in South Field.

Me in another TV/Video clip I'm still working on in North Weymouth

Me a Weymouth Great Pond in South Weymouth

Still frame from "The Holy Maple Tree" which is my friend Roland's film, shot on set in Brockton Mass. Actress: Shevon as "Moonbeam" the Hippie character.

Production Still from "The Holy Maple Tree" shot on location in Rhode Island. Actor: Raidge

Filmed at BTV for "The Holy Maple Tree" ("speak of The Devil" fake news show on fake "Heaven N Hell TV" Channel in Bridgewater Mass. Composit, Graphics N Animation by me.