Pete McPartlan

I’ve been making drawings that I call semi-procedural for a while now. “Procedural” meaning there is a fixed rule about how they are made and “semi” to mean that these rules aren’t so fixed - so they’re never written down. The rules only exist as a set of parameters in my head with a vague idea of what the limits are to each parameter.

I’ve been struggling with methods of animating for a while, the idea of copying frames then adjusting them makes me so bored I quickly lose interest. So these animations are made by drawing a field of marks and taking frames as samples of the larger image. Similar to the way the previous post cut apart the origami paper into a grid of frames but in a much looser way, using a small camera making judgements on the fly (in a similar manner to the drawing).