Shaughn Martel

Awards Jurying Consideration Reel 2023

My thesis was spent creating experimental video animations that are speculative of a future of digital video art. My process was critical of computer software that reinforces old material constraints that shape the process of making. The work uses 3D modeling and keyframe animations, hybrid camera techniques, physics simulations and engineered video glitching as mechanisms for transitioning between shots.

“Using both schools of movement of cinematism and animatism of Thomas Lamarre, I wanted to create new kinds of animations that used 3D as a space in which more was possible when content was no longer static on a substrate, nor was it traveling laterally on a static plane. I wanted to augment both schools of movement by nesting images within images with video corruption techniques and the extra movement of using 3D models of planes as an objects that could be any shape, or consitancy while playing a video on it. The work seeks to disrupt the viewer's gaze and expectations of cinema, and animation by refusing to use VFX and 3D as a masking tool for the spectacle of cinematic illusion, and instead celebrate it as the glue that binds animation and video together to expands the craft of video beyond the physical materials.”