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Inspiration: The “My Neighbor Totoro” zoetrope at the Ghibli museum. I have never seen anything like this before. Thinking of animation sculptures never crossed my mind. Seeing the cat-bus fly and the little girls play made me feel like and kid at Christmas. I’m planning to focus toward sculpture and I felt that this was the perfect incorporation of animation and sculpture, a joining of individual artworks into a larger show.



Character: I’m using Ponyo from “Ponyo: on a cliff by the sea” it is the retelling of the little mermaid by Hayao Miyazaki. The character has simple shapes that are easier to replicate in sculpture. She is animated in a simple swim cycle.



Animation: 8 frames per seconds were the traditional means of animation in 1960’s Japan. Astro boy was a good example of it (research element). That’s the basic idea of using that number of frames for the sculpture.