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Projected Animation

Digitally enhanced ballpoint pen drawings animated and projected onto Continuing my investigation into drawing and ceramics; pioneering digital solutions, its own, the animated projection of my drawings is
an upscale shard. I am once again teamed up with Lukasz Pater, to produce an animated projection both captivating and mesmerising, a true reflection
of my latest ballpoint pen drawings onto a very large upscale ceramic shard (a of what is referred to as the digital handmade.
A collaboration between Eugene Hön and Lukasz Pater, animator and lecturer fragment of a traditional ceramic platter), exploring the above concept of fragmented Mr Pater's contribution comprises an
in Multimedia including Dominic Hobbs, Masters Student in Graphic Design.
fragments and fractals. We successfully developed the first projected animation of interpretation of the ballpoint pen drawings and
Made possible with the following expertise: its kind in 2009, titled: and the ship sails on… It was exhibited at the 2014 Ceramic digitally enhanced fractals, as a series of dynamic
Dan Carstens — CNC files & machining. Biennale in Taiwan. motion graphics that animate across the surface

With financial support of the FRC and URC. The latest work was exhibited adjacent to the handcrafted and fired ceramic of the shard, an interface between physical and
shards on the lower ground of the FADA Gallery, presented as a separate ceramic digital media. The projected animation explores
installation. The animated projection consists of digitally enhanced ballpoint pen the notion of fragility and impermanence, closely
drawings, animated and projected onto an upscale CNC-machined polymer shard. associated with the cracks of the fragmented
Lukasz Pater worked with Dominic Hobbs (designer of the range of fractals ceramic fragments and the fractals in the surface
used in the transferware series) to capture and soundtrack an interpretation of the development of the transferware. Animation is by
fractals in an abstract animated motion sequence. It is particularly this aspect of nature fleeting, comprised of a multitude of still
the projection that gives the work its unique, innovative and creative qualities. The images that move past the viewer in such quick
mercurial, oscillating fractals owe their three dimensionality to the meticulously succession that they are each presented for the
rendered large-scale ballpoint pen drawings, supported by the 4K high resolution briefest instance before being replaced by the frames
projection and its mapped motion gliding over the undulated shape of the upscale that follow. Like all performances, animation exists in
shard. The animated projection permeates the shard, elevated up close to the a moment in time and is always in flux, never fixed
viewer on a plinth and transforming it into a luminous light source. The fractal and frozen. Mr Hobb's contribution involves creating
patterns appear to be floating in space within the glowing shard, further enhancing an accompanying sonic palette to the animation
the three dimensionality of the fractals in motion. It was precisely this opportunity, to sequence, complimenting the abstract nature of the
again explore the potential for animated ceramic installations, that kindled a desire visuals with a loosely evolving ambient soundscape
to collaborate and bring the ceramic surface decoration to life through a motion that predominantly uses electronic music synthesis
driven surface solution. Inspired by the ceramic transferware but taking on a life of and field-recordings of nature to imagine the scene.

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