Try To Believe

Over twenty-eight paper, foam core, and mixed media sculptures were created to make this dizzying, surreal accompaniment to Randall Woolf's "Try to Believe." The ten students in the Visual Symphony course mixed the concept of the zoetrope, a pre-cinema optical toy, with digital video technology for this form of 'live' animation. The visual content loosely follows a modern-day 'Alice' through a nightmarish then dream-like landscape: a narrative that, like Woolf's music, is a balance between abstraction and the familiar.

Created by the University of Maryland Baltimore County
Imaging Research Center Fellows:
Andrej Bevec,
Timothy Brosius,
Christian Brown,
Evan Devine,
Ivy Flores,
Ernest Powell,
Tommy Truong,
Robert Yu,
Helen Zhang,
MeganZlock.
Project faculty: Prof. Eric Dyer.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• try
• to
• believe
• brooklyn
• philharmonic
• irc
• imaging
• research
• center
• umbc
• fellowship
• spring
• 2008
• randall
• woolf

[myers25cats]

Stimulating!

[MRT408]

great job indeed :-)

[eeltoob]

This is absolutely wonderful to watch! Stunning!

[HolyCrisco]

Wow i love the combination of 2d and 3d elements

[chocomanji]

This is great! Is there a higher resolution version out there somewhere?

[adamjustkidding]

It didn't occur to me that when we were printing some of these pieces at commonvision that this would be the end result. Really neat work.

[drgnchocobo]

Good work people I know!

[SkyeBlueMD]

very dizzying and very surreal...awesome work.

[lcataralc]

This is awesome!

[TBroProductions]

Zoetropes eh?

I'm not gonna lie, that's really pretty cool.