Faculty of Art

Drawing and Painting: Digital Painting and Expanded Animation

Dan Liu

Polina with One Streak of Pink-Dyed Hair

Experimental animation investigating the possibility of incorporating watercolour timelapse

““Polina with One Streak of Pink-Dyed Hair” is an experimental animation investigating the possibility of incorporating watercolour paintings in timelapse videos.The materiality of watercolour painting in an animated context - its ethereal nature and shifting form a perfect expression of the transient nature of childhood and nostalgia - especially when seen through a lens of tragedy narrative in an imperfect world.As a result, this project responds to the need to create an artistic experimental animation, which investigates the possibilities of watercolour, with its moving pigments in water droplets, as an animated medium. As entropy is a one-way trip, the watercolour droplets dissolving in water cannot be undone, and no two droplets will generate the same pattern; the same goes for all lived lives — each is unique and cannot be undone. As a result, the fateless shape of a single water droplet perfectly reflects the unpredictable nature of life when dissolving in time.Her name is Polina, and she was a ten-year-old girl once full of energy. And this animation is made to dedicate all those innocent children who were lost in military conflicts.”