JUNE 2018
Define your greatest fear ~ and then animate it!
Challenge:
I recently had to undergo surgery. The one an only other surgery I have ever had in my entire lifetime was many decades ago, as a little kid. I had to have my tonsils removed at that time as they were strangling me and preventing me from eating. The whole experience in that emergency situation was one of pain, horror and a lot of vomiting - a fear about surgery that has grown has eaten away ever since. So, when confronting surgery at this latterly time in my life, that little kid inside me was still shaking in his boots! Rationally, my logical mind knew that it was not a particularly dangerous procedure and that I would feel so much better once it was over. However, the little boy inside me didn't know that - he preferred to wallow in the horror of his inflamed memories and simply wanted to cry out for his mummy to save him! Fears are like that. They grow irrationally within us and, usually get worse and worse as we push them down deep and prefer not to confront them at all. At the same time, when we do (or are forced to by life) actually confront them at last, they tend to crumble and fade away to nothingness, never to raise their ugly heads again. They certainly did that for me, with a surgery that was actually quite pain free and in some strange way quite comforting and life transforming!
So, for this month's ANIMATION challenge asks you to reflect on what your greatest FEAR is . . . then you have to bring it alive in some way! It can be dramatized, tenderized, pasteurized. But whatever it is you do, we have to get the very real feeling of fear you get from whatever it is. Also, if you want to go the extra mile and animate yourself (or a character of your own choice that reflects you) facing your fear and actually overcoming it, then that's good too. The core objective of the challenge either way is that we need to see and feel your fear through the designing, staging and ultimate animation of what gets a person running for the hills - just like an assignment that's given out as part of a movie someone is working on. Who knows, by thinking out, drawing and animating your fear you may even exorcise it from your mind forever! That would be really cool! Indeed, there were times when I wished I could have animated my way out of my recent surgery too - but that was earlier, before I realized how liberating and empowering the entire experience would be!
Anyway, try to have us shaking in our boots with your "fear" animation folks - or cheering for you as we see you overcome it! I know you can do it. . . that is, as long as you can stop your hand from shaking as you try to create it! : )
Deadline:
Submissions must be in by midnight on THURSDAY, AUGUST 30th (Pacific Time). Are you brave enough?
Submissions must be in by midnight on THURSDAY, AUGUST 30th (Pacific Time). Are you brave enough?