Beautiful Freaks

What do you think when you see someone with a tattoo, a non traditional piercing or another type of body modification? Does your perception of them change?

Do you think tramp?
Do you think criminal?

Many people do.

Yet like everyone else, modified people are more than stereotypes. In recent years tattooing has begun to gain a measure of acceptance in U.S and UK society but large, obvious tattoos, stretched piercings; and even more extreme modifications like branding, scarification and sub dermal implants are often represented by the media as indicators of sexual or criminal defiance.

These associations, perpetuated by newspapers and magazines helped cement tattooed people into the public consciousness as freakish, savage and deformed when in reality, these people are no different on the inside.  The society we live in has shaped people's perception of 'the ideal' and left us blinded by superficiality and materialism.

'Looking Outside' - Idea 1

In order to create an original piece of work, I decided to enhance upon the subject 'Looking Outside' and focus it on superficiality and stereotyping, after all, we judge what we look at on the outside, not on the person inside.

People are first and foremost, whether they like to admit it or not, incredibly superficial and materialistic, judging people solely on what they look like on the outside. In this project I wanted to collect a variety of people suiting these cliched stereotypes and make a montage sequence portraying them holding boards either saying how they feel about being judged for the way they look.

I think this then portrays the idea of 'looking outside' in a unique and experimental way and allows a message to be expressed that just because someone may look a little different to another person or dress slightly different, that we are all part of an equal society so no body should be treated any differently to anybody else, especially for superficial purposes.

The stereotypes I hope to include within this project will be mainly people with body modifications and tattoos as they are the most controversial subject when it comes down to wanting a professional career, Body mods and tattoos should not hinder anybody's chances of getting a job, especially when they do not affect your level of intelligence, therefore the chance for you to do that job. It is a subject that I feel very strongly about and I wanted to give the viewer of my animation the chance to 'Look Inside' and see the person for who they truly are and not judge based on superficial appearances.

Digital Animation

3D Digital Animation: An Introduction

What would you like to learn about AfterEffects?

> 3D Digital Animation

> Drawing within AfterEffects

> Animating people//specific objects

> How to create Landscapes//rolling scenery