Klemen Gorup: Interactive Animation (2004)

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Interactive animation is a project created in computer software which includes figural animations derived from stories, however, in this instance the figures play a different role. By clicking on different buttons, the spectator becomes the creator of new and, most importantly, his own animations. He can choose between five different characters which can be made bigger or smaller and moved around freely by arrows so that he can place them wherever he wants. Each character is also accompanied by various soundtracks.

Everything can be made even more interesting by changing the backgrounds, which can also be moved around by using the ambient sounds pertaining to them, and that is not all: to make the composition even more exciting it is possible to add objects and animated people to the first and second layers, which thus become a part of the background and can also be moved.

The spectator can create a communication between characters by motion of their bodies or their speech. One other possibility for him is also to create absurd combinations of all available elements.The combinations are countless, so enjoy.

Programming: Damjan Malis, Jernej Marinsek, Miran Mlakar, Sasa Rink, Tomaz Sabo, Ziga Gantar.

Klemen Gorup, born in 1977 in Postojna, Slovenia. In 2002 he got his licence in painting at the Art Academy in Ljubljana. In 2003 he started the post-graduate programme in video and new media. klemen977@hotmail.com