film stills - WNO

I was looking for some images on an old external hard drive and came across some stills from a film I made for the Welsh National Opera during a collaboration a couple of years ago  with my brother Michael and Jessica Curry. A performance of Michael and Jessica's sound was played in front of a 22 minute film/animation. These 4 stills are from that film.

3d animated zoetropes, Burnley

The figures for the animated zoetropes are in process. There will be 25 figures for each zoetrope approx 66mm tall, each one in a slightly different position creating the animation when people hand crank the zoetropes.

The figures have been scanned, a digital figure made and amended and then 3d printed. Massive thanks once again to Seb Boyesen. An amazing man.



Original figures in appropriate outfits ready for scanning.

 Man pushing trolley scanned and model tweaked ready for 3d printing.

The test figure 3d printed.

Female weaver digital model tweaked into position with a Butterworth and Dickinson loom (locally made and used). Currently being 3d printed.

Orangery, Beam, Wakefield

An updated flythrough by Tim Anderson (DLA Architects) for the collaborative project redeveloping Beam's headquarters in Wakefield. Lighting in the form of a circuit that changes colour with the electrical variations of an orange tree. Other orange trees sited within the cavity of the variable transparent / translucent / opaque exterior glass wall.

Massive thanks to Tim Anderson, John Orrell, Rob Powell and Kate Watson.

Orangery, Beam, Wakefield

Collaborating with Tim Anderson and John Orrell from DLA architects, Leeds on the new development of Beam's base, the Orangery (an old orangery). The site is next to the redeveloped railway station in Wakefield.

These ideas are still in progress. We are looking to reconfigure the building and have artistic lighting that is activated by the variable electrical current of an orange tree. The image of circuits on the exterior light up, change colour and are connected to the orange tree roots. This becomes an Orange Circuitree.

The semi transparent exterior creates views into the new upper garden.

Many thanks to Tim Anderson (also created the animation), John Orrell, Rob Powell and Kate Watson.

Weaver's Triangle, Burnley

The interactive film to be projected onto Slater Terrace at the Weaver's Triangle is in full flow. There are two projectors, each with its own PIR to detect movement of people in the new public square. As people trigger the sensor a new 40 second film clip will start. The images always start and end on this image. There will be all kinds of animation of the image taking place in response to people walking by.

The left hand and right hand image operate independently.

Very many thanks to Duncan Turner, Cecilia Whittaker, Helen Jones, Adam Lockett, Burnley Borough Council and James Moran Zietek

Weaver's Triangle Burnley

I have been designing two hand cranked 3d animated zoetropes to be sited in the new public square in Burnley. The first is a figure pushing a trolley with cotton bales accompanied by a cat. He'll walk up a slight incline and down again, looking at the viewer once on his circuit.

The poem is taking from John Trafford Clegg's 'A Weighver's Song'. The three red stripes reference the
red stripes of the tea towels made in the Weaver's Triangle and repeated in the projections. The text is within the broad red stripes and made from a series of dots - like a punch card which is also echoed on the Slater Terrace Chimney projection.

Seb Boyesen is currently making these figures using zbrush and then they'll be 3d printed.

Many thanks to Seb Boyesen, Cecilia Whittaker, Helen Jones, Burnley Borough Council and James Moran-Zeitik.

Burnley Weavers Triangle

Three new designs for the different sides of the chimneys in the Weavers Triangle, Burnley. The images are all inspired by the amazingly rich cotton producing history of Burnley and the Weavers Triangle in particular.

As it was in its cotton producing heyday.