Progress Through Obedience

This animation was created as part of the "Artifacts Away" project set by OneDotZero. The brief asked the student to pick an artifact from the V&A Museum and create a Motion/Screen Design response that communicated something about the artifact.

The artifact I chose was the Model of the HSBC Building in Hong Kong that was built by the Kandor Model Makers. After research into the both the model in situe and the looking at the actual mechanism of modern banking, the idea of the oppressive overbearing bank almost mimicking the Communist mechanism of a single state controlled economy became the concept.

This is my first animation piece and my maiden voyage into the world of Screen Design. I used both 2D and 3D graphics to try and give a contemporary twist to the Communist Constructivist style. This project has been a learning process in all respects as well as a door into a previously un-explored discipline.

The Audio for this project was created by Stephen Arnold AKA Espion ( www.hyperoctave.org / www.myspace.com/espion )