Michaela is a czech animator who i was lucky enough to meet, and watch the work of at the bradford animation festival. Her main inspiration is found from the world around her, focusing on the relationships between people. she is fascinated by the way they talk, interact and often gets her inspiration from people she watches, meets or sometimes find it from people close to her.
Throughout her career she has tried a mixture of techniques, starting of with hand drawing all her animations, making them very abstract often with no speech, finding other ways to get the message across through the body language of her characters. Her work uses very bold colours, focusing more on the characters, and less on the foreground of the scene. She has also used many other techniques when animating along with cut outs, in a stop motion form, mixing with live action and more recently through the use of photoshop and other online software. her work is often quite vulgar, especially her more recent work looking more into relationships within love, sex and lust.
She is an animator who has inspired me a lot this year after hearing her talk and what she feels about animation. She is currently a lecturer at the film university FAMU in Prague, where my friend is lucky enough to be studying for a term, i admit my heart slightly suck when i went and i new she was so close, yet so far to meet properly after my shyness the first time i met her.
Throughout her career she has tried a mixture of techniques, starting of with hand drawing all her animations, making them very abstract often with no speech, finding other ways to get the message across through the body language of her characters. Her work uses very bold colours, focusing more on the characters, and less on the foreground of the scene. She has also used many other techniques when animating along with cut outs, in a stop motion form, mixing with live action and more recently through the use of photoshop and other online software. her work is often quite vulgar, especially her more recent work looking more into relationships within love, sex and lust.
She is an animator who has inspired me a lot this year after hearing her talk and what she feels about animation. She is currently a lecturer at the film university FAMU in Prague, where my friend is lucky enough to be studying for a term, i admit my heart slightly suck when i went and i new she was so close, yet so far to meet properly after my shyness the first time i met her.
Although Reci Reci Reci (words, words, words) is one of her very first animations i love the style and more so just how it shows relationships, the use of colour and her own personal feeling about the people she must have been inspired by, watched and the way people interact. Im always fascinated with peices of film, animation that tell a story and keep you interested without needing the use of dialog.
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