Finished Animation

I think I have finally gotten my video to a point that I like it! It took some time; I ended up having to go back and remake a lot of the initial animations. Due to the way Photoshop exports them, there were black bars on the sides of some of them. My fix was to simply fill the empty space with more of the paper background. Simple yes, and also time consuming. But, I will definitely remember that for next time I am making animations.

Final animation

Talking with Margaret we came up with a couple ideas that appealed to me re: the exhibition. One was to bring all the posters I printed and have them as takeaways for the show. This is great, as my initial thought was to cut them all down into notebook covers and make notebooks from them to be given out at the show. However, leaving them as full sheets is a lot less work in a week already quite full of work. Plus, it will hopefully give people a sense of the scope of what I created better than a notebook might. Additionally, we agreed that it might be interesting to design some simple graphics to break down the labor involved in this project.

I set about attempting to total the labor up; I am guessing it’s probably a bit of an “underestimate”, but tentatively it looks like about 60 hours worth of work that went into a relatively simple looking 35 second video. The simplicity of the video actually reinforces the idea of the hidden labor of things; it certainly looks easy to make. Looking forward to hearing the reception to it.

The Labor of Love of Labor