A Dilettante’s Guide to Filmmaking, part 4: Name Drop
Tag: Animation
A Dilettante’s Guide to Filmmaking, part 3: Character Building
It’s been a while since I’ve checked in here about the (still unnamed) film project, and it’s high time I introduced the story’s (likewise unnamed) protagonist and sole character.*
The Traveler (working name) is intended to be something of an otherworldly being, and to read as a foreign element in the film’s setting. Their face is covered by a mask and so characterization is mostly done through body language, partially as a storytelling challenge, partially because facial animation is a hassle and who needs that stress in their life?
I’m now in the thick of animation for this thing, so expect more frequent updates! Probably!
*regarding “the landscape is a character”: oh man I used to love that phrase. But is it a character, really? Does something need to be a character in order to be interesting/important? Check your anthropocentrism, people.
A Dilettante’s Guide to Filmmaking, part 2: Sketched Out
Just a few pages from my sketchbook, showing aspects of the film in various states of gestation, as well as a look at what one could generously call my process:
A Dilettante’s Guide to Filmmaking
Last winter I made a short animated film, mostly just to see if I could. It took half a year to complete and the finished product was a bit rough around the edges, but all in all I was pretty happy with it.
Winter is coming again here in the northern hemisphere and I’m working on a new film, this one a bit more ambitious, visually at least. There’s a lot of work to do, and I plan documenting the process here as it unfolds. For now, here’s a work-in-process look at one of the (as yet untitled) film’s backgrounds. Much more to come; stay tuned!
one festival down…
A quick peek at my piece for this weekend’s FireFish festival, in Lorain OH:
Further Uses of Spooky Rooms: Final Form(s)
Further Uses of Spooky Rooms, pt. 3
House Haunting
This weekend, for the third year in a row, I had the great pleasure of participating in Rooms to Let: CLE, in which a handful of foreclosed houses in Cleveland’s Slavic Village neighborhood were transformed into temporary artspaces. I build a video installation around my animation Emergence #2.
…and here, for your viewing pleasure, is the original animation:
The Stone
So in my last post I talked about a film that I’d been working on for the past several months. In lieu of of string of updates and work-in-progress posts, here’s the finished beast; enjoy!
Coming Soon(ish)
So it’s been pretty quiet on this blog. I’ve been busy over the fall and winter (and probably a not insignificant portion of the spring to come) working on a short animated film. Here’s a still:
No title as yet, but the film will be a ghost story of sorts. I’m hoping to have a short preview excerpt up in the near future; stay tuned!
Robin Harper Latkovich 
