Automatic Writing - William Kentridge

By South African Artist William Kentridge

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• south
• africa
• charcoal
• william
• kentridge
• automatic
• writing

[littletwitchy]

he's not tracing and copying, he's erasing and redrawing.

[mad1mike1]

this is brilliant but somewhat creepy

[noonesgayformoleman]

Amazing, one of my favourite artists!

[AlanUno]

@AlegriasGallery I'm sure that he could obtain a similar effect by using some good software, in shortest time...but i'm always fascinated by "old style" artists

[AlegriasGallery]

@jackbussell 3D computer animations are done by teams of people with software tricks... this kind of work takes months to make just a few minutes - why not check out some of his fully drawn stop frames like - Felix in Exile

[jackbussell]

@AlegriasGallery blerg pretty gay

[AlegriasGallery]

@jackbussell it's not computer animation it is animated drawing - also i don't think his technique is up for evaluation by ... who are you by the way? if you wanted to buy the copyrighted set of 8 films it would cost you $500,000

[AlegriasGallery]

@AlanUno you need to watch the documentaries about this artist and how he works. he is not a computer graphics animator he is a traditional artist. he has a camera with a shutter button on a lead set up in front of a wall covered in paper, which he draws on with charcoal and photographs every change he makes as one frame - he erases lightly leaving a trace of the mark behind - a technique sometimes used in drawing but rarely in animation and what makes his style unique and influential

[littletwitchy]

Art21 has several videos of him in his studio. He may have branched out in his more recent work, I'm not sure, but for this video, it's all photographs of charcoal drawings put together as stop-motion.

[AlanUno]

@littletwitchy I think he' is copying some real footage with a software like "ARTRAGE" and then erasing with a wet sponge to give the "dirt" effects.. i could be wrong anyway, there are many ways to obtain this...