Aya Nambu - sculptor and contemporary artist

Work In Progress

Update - Animation 'Untitled (invisible man) - 2008'

21 August 2008
The invisible man - cat walking

Making an animation requires a lot of preparations and research in prior to moving on to the shooting stage and editing stage and that what I have been doing for the past weeks (with some interruptions between...). As I am constantly experimenting and exploring in the area of stop-frame animation it is rather slow progress, however, the outcome from the experiences and failures are most beneficial and valuable.
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Animation 'Untitled (invisible man) - 2008'

18 June 2008
The invisible man

My next animation project is at early stages of progression. The idea for the animation is to animate an invisible figure by animation effects that the presence of his body causes on his surroundings, such as the surface of sofa sinking down (by his body weight) as he sits down.
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'The Room'

12 June 2008
The Room

The piece I am currently working on is a half-size model of a room with figure shapes (of models of my body) hollowed out on the inside walls, like 'imprints' of the body on the walls. The bodies are firstly modelled in clay from photos then plaster casts are taken around them.
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