Mattis Dover

http://mattisdovier.tumblr.com/


Mattis Dovier - Inside from RANDOM ACTS on Vimeo.


MTV ident from Mattis Dovier on Vimeo.

Mattis Dover is an animator I found on Tumbler, he mostly specialises in creating animated gifs, some of his work is short films. the work in which he produces is very dark and pixelated, the pixelated style is his own signature on his work, his footage is very dark and twisted it reminds me a lot of Suehiro Maruo because he is also very interested in representing dark twisted things too using the same negative black and white colour scheme.

Suehiro Maruo

Capital Steez music video and feedback from crit

This is a music video by Capital Steez who died a while back, it was directed and animated team in his memory. whats great about this animation is that it is very colour full and expresses emotions through and different colours, the animated line work is very sketchy and rough. Some images are often repeated purposely to create a cycle, the colours also flash to the beats with in the music to create a link between the sound and the animation so that they work as one. It is very relatable to my research because it focuses on the aesthetic of colour, the way in which the colours are used are very abstract because the images are not completely coloured in properly, they are just scribbled or dotted with particular colours, the outline of the characters are always white, personally I would say they this is so that they are seen a lot easier against the dark blue background.

Partical experimentation (Document & Reflect)

This is was just a test to animate a potential scene for my final animation, I did not focus on how the character appeared but I was just looking at the scene and colours in general and how they would work as one for the final. my plan is just to do the same scene repeated twice with two different set of colours for the separate animations, just to see how people perceive on image based on the use of colour.  

This is from my ppp3 work, it is a design for a clothing line which I recently did I tied it into my Cop 3 work because it involved an strong use of colours and I wanted to find out what peoples thoughts were on the colours used, I also did this for my short test animation above.

Response 1 - "It makes me feel awake and alert because there is such a clash of colours in the pictures"

Response 2 - "It makes me feel chill... like fresh because of the purple"

Response 3 - "Creeped out lol"

Response 4 - "Makes me feel like I'm tripping on acid & I love the candy in the background it also makes me feel sweet & gives me a warm feeling, since the girl is red, it makes me feel a little dark, if she was purple or baby blue it would make me feel more balanced."

These comments from my primary research above show that the specific meanings for colours can change based on peoples personalities or perceptions of colours. It is almost like the colours don't really have a set meaning, the feelings felt are based of personal experiences because people I have questioned about this issue all have different emotions towards the came colours.

based on Response 4, I personally would not consider the image to be dark apart from the use of red could be seen as aggressive to me, but in places like china who consider red to be a lucky and black as the colour of piece/brightness this image might be seen as a positive representation in the eyes of Chinese people, maybe this is the reason for their choice of a red flag because the red could be considered as lucky and the yellow for the stars is probably a symbol of piece and happiness.

Chinese Flag