Anne Nestler

Animation is based on imagination that means there are not any creative limits. The world we live in is about science and explanations so animation is a way out of the normal “boring” world. You can create whatever you want with fictive things that do not exist. It ether can be a world of darkness or of happiness or of anything you can imagine. An animated world does not know any rules. We started to think about an imagination world by brainstorming where we want to go. Our animated world – story Our world starts in a black bin. We walked to it and dived down. Everywhere was black but than something incredible happened. We came up in an ocean full of corals. Though it was not an ocean it ended up to be a picture in a book. The light increased so it got brighter until everything was white. As we could see something again, we realised we were next to a huge green plant. As we got further away we recognized the plant was normal sized and a girl was looking at it. We were...

First of all what is animation exactly? Animation is a metamorphosis produced by a lot of frames which are put together. It has its own language. But what is metamorphosis? Metamorphosis is the ability to facilitate the change from one form into another without edit. The quote “Imagination is subversive, because it puts the possible against the real. That’s why you should always use your wildest imagination. Imagination is the biggest gift humanity has received. Imagination makes people human, not work. Imagination, imagination, imagination...” by Jan Svankmajer, a Czech film maker and artist, inspired me a lot because he basically says that everybody has to have a childish imagination and be creative and that beeing human is the best gift in the work. The task ask us to create a GIF produced with maximal 25 frames. Our first idea was to go against the viewer expectations and draw a man jumping off a cliff but instead of dying he flies back to the edge ...

The task was about teaching us how to create a story by using photos. The importance of that is to think about different aspects as we take them such as the composition, framing, light, location, shape/ form, texture/ line, colour, (a)symmetry, narrative, depth of field and the reveal. All in one it is necessary to know how to convey the story to the viewer so they would get affected by it. My story is about a girl which is bored and does not know what to do at first. After a while she has the idea to turn on some music so she could dance and jump on her bed. Suddenly she loses the control of her body and falls down to the floor. The story ends with her laying on the ground and not moving. The setting is a bedroom. In the picture is seen a bed, door, bedside table with a lamp on it, a music speaker and a picture in a frame hanging on the wall. I choose the room because it should look like an average room for a teenager. Furthermore should the room be clean so it w...

Looking at all kinds of films they benefit from humans physical thinking to affect their feelings and create illusion. In each film is a state of change. For instance love stories which start always happy but end sad. That is because the one thing that every human knows is change. It could be just the age when somebody grows up but it also could be moving to another city or country. Because of that films bases on changes, too. Either the story starts positivity and ends negatively or it starts negatively and has a positive ending. During the course of the story two opposite forces are smashing together and harmonizing in the end. But what is a single shot now? A single shot is a film with no cuts so the whole movie is filmed with one shot. That means it is not produced from various shots that are later trimmed together to one single film. The effect of a single shot film is that the watcher becomes a part of it as well as feelings increases. To depict a narrative we had to...

The difference between photo and film is that a photo captures just one 'thing' at one time whereas a film is produced by thousands of photos that create the illusion of movement. Looking at the history of films the name Eadweard Muybridge comes up. Muybridge was an English photographer who got hired by a businessman and race-horse owner for some photographic studies in 1872. Muybridge should proof that all four feet of a horse were off the ground at the same time while trotting. To find that out he used 12 different cameras photographing a galloping horse in a sequence of shots. That was the first time that people could see a horse moving by using photographs. Eadweard Muybridge impresses me with his work a lot. He knew he had to look at the issue differently than all the other people to come up with a solution. The most important thing for a photographer is to bring a new view to the world and that is exactly what Muybridge did. The task ask us to produce a short fi...

Different composition convey different feelings. Not just a sad or happy face can express emotions but also the right composition. But how does it works? The human brain lives from experiences. That means that human see what they already know. As soon as we see an image we start thinking about it and put it in a known context. Therefore we are able to read stories out of photographs for example. We see a dead body and a fire so we expect that he got burned. When we see a dead body at the beach we think the sea washed him ashore and he died because he drowned. That also works with composition. The following photos show different feelings by using the right compositions. I liked the task because I have not thought about the importance of composition earlier. At first I had some struggle to come up with ideas how I could use compositions to convey chosen feelings on purpose. After a while I figured out that I have to think about images which makes me feel sad or happy and do ...

 My photo which shows a part of the Grand Canyon (Arizona) was taken in 2016 and is a horizontal landscape shot. In the beginning the reasons for choosing this particular photograph were the environment and the amazing view in it. After analysing it I came to the conclusion that it has some hidden details in it which are appealingly to me and were probably also the reasons why I choose this image in the beginning without even knowing. There is a main rocket on the left side in the photo that catches the watchers attention and benefits from the rule of third. One point of interest is directly placed on the upper edge of this rocket. The bright light draws also attention to it so the rocket seems to be bigger and the centre of that image. Another point of interest highlights the black spot in between the trees and stresses the question: If there is more to explore? Referring to the light the sky is shown in a light blue. It seems that the sky gets lighter in dist...

Looking at those totally different artworks I got inspired again. Even I have been to the Tate Modern before I enjoyed discovering new details which I have not recognized before. Each artist has its own history and point of view which he/she expresses in his/her art. What I also appreciated is that art can be used to convey feelings or protest against something. It does not always have to look beautiful. Almost every artist wants to draw attention to a topic which causes people suffering. Furthermore I loved about this exhibition that the Tate Modern has so many various artworks like paintings, sculptures and photos. For example the painting ´Weeping Woman 1937´ by Pablo Picasso is based on the bombing of Guernica by the German force during the Civil War. Picasso wants to convey sadness and suffering to the audience by painting an abstract woman holding her dead child. At first it looks confusing but after looking at it for a longer time it conveys the pain and suffer of the ...

Gregory Crewdson was born in Brooklyn a part of New York in 1962. He graduated early at the John Dewey High School. When Crewdson was a teenager he attended a punk rock group called “The Speedies”. Their song “Let Me Take Your Photo” encourage him to become a photographer in his future. Crewdson´s photos are staged with big effort. As a result of that they are very expensive to produce. He is looking in his images for his own fear and a way out of the loneliness and the perfect photo. In each photos Crewdson includes a whole drama story. He usually shows depressing stories from the American life. The viewer has a lot of wiggle room so that the photo can get interpreted in different ways. The exhibition “Cathedral of the Pines“ (2013-14) is produced in the small rural town of Becket, Massachusetts and includes the surrounding forest as well as the hiking trail which is the reason for its title. This exhibition is different from Crewdsons previous work because it explo...

  Graphic design accompanies us in our everyday life's. The Waterloo Station in London is a good example for a place which has various advertisement posters from different graphic design companies. There are food advertisement graphics which show a photo of delicious prepared food so the visitor gets interested by seeing a meal. For example the poster of ´wasabi restaurant´. On the poster is written “MADE FRESH DAILY” in capital letters. Because they use just three words the poster is faster to read and the headline is easy to remember. They also choose its colour on purpose. The photo shows a rice bowl with some meat and vegetable sauce on it. The colours are yellow and red with some green seasoning. Those colours are also used for the worlds so they harmony better with each other. Other companies use bright colours to catch people's attention. Big and just a few words make the people read the poster better and faster. An example is the advertisem...

I thought about designing a graphic campaign about the known issue of women and their appearance. At first it was hard for me to decide on a topic on which I want to base my project but after a while I thought that beauty ideals affect almost every women just as me. So I decided on going for a protest campaign against the “perfect” looking woman. Regarding to that theme I researched the change of the perfect body shape for the last 100 years. To beginn with the 1910s century the "Gibson girl" were seen as the beauty ideals for the women's body. For instanc Camille Clifford. In the 1920s century the "falpper girls" became more beautyful. Alice Joyce became a role model during that time. After ten more years people admired curves again because those girls were seen as the "sex siren". For example the movie star Jean who was nicknamed the "Blond Bombshell". The 1940s century had the beauty ideal of women who cheer returnin...