Good For You Leo
For this project I crafted a hand-drawn, mixed medium animation piece to ‘Good For You Leo’ from the Alasdair Gray soundtrack composed by Scott Twynholm for the documentary ‘Alasdair-Gray: A Life in Progress’.
In my piece Gray quotes Leonardo Da Vinci expressing his views on human destruction to the earth and our selfishness in this regard, which Gray goes on to agree with, hence ‘Good For You Leo’. As the track is relatively short, I aimed to have an overarching message instead of a storyline in the animation. My primary and secondary research led to the formation of this message, a discourse around deforestation and the effects of this. Throughout the piece I explore this topic comprehensively, considering the nature of scale through micro and macro forms, while also taking reference from maps, Gray’s works and several artists and animators. My extensive primary research involved taking field trips to forested environments in order to experiment with material and composition, developing my pieces from rough pencil sketches to finished pieces before transforming them into moving image.
The finished animation piece spanned 766 hand-drawn stills which used a large range of mediums: ink, watercolour, acrylic paint, charcoal, pen, pencil and oil pastel.
