The Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity posted an article about the recent two month residency that I was awarded called the Emerging Atlantic Artist in Residence. Check out the article written by Devon Murphy here:
I am almost done re-working parts of the animation that I had made while there. I carved out some visual rules for this work, a limited colour scheme, fills and strokes, working within frames and basic camera movements. I'm wondering about this specific visual language that I normally see associated with infographics and explainer videos.
The work is a narrative to thread together characters from an ecosystem specific to that region. I focused on Physalla Johnsoni, the endangered snail that lives only at the thermal springs on Sulphur Mountain in Banff.
Image credit goes to Dr. Dwayne A.W. Lepitzki, who is the lead researcher on Physella Johnsoni. He was kind enough to provide me with invaluable information as well as let me observe his work for reference for my animation.
This is one drawing from a series where I traced the posture of the researcher of the snail as he worked counting each of the snails individually. These drawings feature in the animation I made, This Place, 2016