URCAD Sneak Peek: Camille Ollivierre

Sun, 11 Apr 2021 11:02:40 -0400

Be sure not to miss Camille's presentation, Blows! Exploring Traditional Caribbean Whaling Culture Through Paint On Glass Animation. Camille is a URA Scholar, and in her presentation, she will describe the process behind making her film and how she built her own custom rig during the pandemic as a result of the campus closure.

URCAD.umbc.edu

April19-25, 2021

Abstract

Mentor: Corrie Parks, Visual Arts

Blows! is a visual research project that consists of a collection of paint-on-glass animation studies created using a homespun multiplane camera rig and Dragonframe (a stop motion animation software). By combining "fluid frame" experimental animation techniques & personal heritage, this project has served as a supplemental learning tool to refine my understanding of physical under-the-camera production with digital compositing as well as incorporating information related to my own cultural identity. My parents are from a small island province called Bequia, which is located in an archipelago known as St. Vincent and the Grenadines. The last of the island's active whaling practices are neatly depicted in the documentary The Wind That Blows!; production began in 1989 and continued through 2013. By using this film as the starting point of my research and reference for rotoscoping, I was able to create sequences for my senior film about how tourism has negatively effected Bequia's historic relationship with whaling.