Why are you making it?
The dictionary has defined the word impetus as a driving force, a stimulation or encouragement resulting in increased activity. So I suppose for me, the Impetus for my animation project ‘Kaze Jetstream’ would be that I am a very passionate and driven as an artist/animator. Inspired by great artistic accomplishments of man, I am driven, because I feel that my work as an artist will have a place in this world. In this thesis project, I will try to create a cutting edge animated short film, based on a story that I have written and characters that I have created.
I wanted to create an animated project that will bring my character creations off the page and breathe life into them, creating a new exciting world. The thesis question I propose to ask is “How did the animated project launch my career as an innovative artist & entrepreneur?” The reason why I wanted to explore this question is that I wanted to create a form of documentation for this project.
I am driven, because I feel that my work as an artist will have a place in the field of entertainment and film animation. I wanted to create an animated project that will bring my character creations off the page and breathe life into them, creating a new exciting world. I feel that there are a lot of exciting things happening in the field of animation and I want to learn more about the new tools of film making and animation by creating and doing. Such examples of great pieces of inspiring shorts, are “Beautiful Technology” by Parsons Alumnus Andre Vandenburg or “Bounty Hunter” by Eugene Chu, have actually come out of the university thesis students here in New York City. Even though it’s obvious that they worked together in teams to develop these amazing pieces, the producers/creators still managed to use this simple team dynamic to their advantage by having each student work in their specialized areas, to produce these extraordinary pieces much like a major motion picture studio would but without the large studio budgets.
