Bang-Yao Liu created this stop-motion animation for his senior project at Savannah College of Art and Design and boy is it awesome. Half way through watching this I forgot that all the images are composed of different colored post-it notes arranged in a neat grid. Most appealing thing about this for me is the “pixel art” dynamic that this creates. Same concept as a digital pixel, only he’s using physical squares. I wonder what grade his instructor gave him for this short & sweet project.
2 Responses to “Deadline”
Very cool!!!
Very original and creative! Hopefully, he made his deadline.
I think deadlines serve an inspirational force for the artist because it demands that the artist’s creativity be exercised within a certain time limit and thus forces the artist to work harder and more intensely to create a work that he can be proud of. Some talented artists (who have little pride in their work) are not motivated by the time constraints imposed by a deadline because they will just produce (notice I didn’t use the word ‘create’) something to meet the job & deadline requirements, with little concern for quality or artistic pride. I see a lot of this today.
Mozart & Beethoven illustrate this:
In Mozart’s time, the artist was basically an employee and his musical output was geared to specific occasions (e.g. dinner music, theatre commissions, party music, etc.). Thus almost all of his vast output was geared towards specific events and (one can assume) all had deadlines to meet. In one instance, he wrote an entire symphony on the carriage ride (of about one day) to the concert, (Prague symphony). Obviously, his genius was such that even his most mediocre work was heads and shoulders above his contemporaries.
Beethoven was the first “artist” to appear on the musical scene. He was not ‘employed’ by anyone; he would obviously write and perform to earn a living but he seldom had time constraints placed on him. His Ninth Symphony was more than ten years in the making!