Laura Kline
Animation Statement
For my demo reel, I decided to show pieces that represent the things I enjoy most about animation as a craft and form of entertainment. I have been drawing since I could hold a pencil. When I was younger I would draw my favorite tv characters while I watched their shows. I thought it was the coolest thing ever that cartoons were a bunch of drawings, and flip books blew my mind. Subtle nuances in the style of drawings make the stories that much more captivating and beautiful to watch. Animation combines character design, acting, set composition, color theory, timing, physics, and more. The amount of work and skill that went into so many of my favorite movies still baffles me. Through this experience my appreciation and love for this craft has grown exponentially. I picked clips from animations that I had the most fun doing. I love the idea of making people feel something through storytelling
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Sculpture Artist Statement
In this series I’m focusing on subjects that have been persecuted figuratively and literally for how they are perceived by others. I grew up watching a lot of TV and movies and gravitated toward the more eccentric characters. The animals and people I chose are all generally treated like they are scary, ugly, threatening, or undesirable. Unless they are the main protagonist, characters like witches and clowns are often the bad guy. Animals like bats, snakes, and wolves are either the threat or the butt of a joke. It’s true, in reality, as well. They’ve all been killed or shunned at one point for it. It interests me how people react when faced with what frightens them.
Fear has been an inspiration in my work for a couple of years now. I’ve been slowly working my way into the film industry, to get behind the scenes and see how the monsters are made. The artists use bits of everything I’ve been learning at LaGrange College and more. In this series, I am using some of the same materials and techniques used in the movie industry to make creature heads. I focus on the texture of my sculptures and playing with exaggerating features and colors. I thought the animals should look closer to how they look in real life because it's their natural features that make people uneasy. With the human forms I pushed their features farther to make them look almost more like creatures than people. |
Bio
My name is Laura Kline and I live in Sharpsburg, Ga, but I grew up in Senoia, Ga. I always knew it as a quiet town, but a lot of films and TV shows have done work there, including The Walking Dead, and Broken Bridges. They even have their own walk of fame on Main Street. Instead of sports or music, I’ve been interested in art for as long as I can remember. I grew up watching a lot of movies, so I was always drawing or making something in my spare time related to the characters. As I got older, I became more interested in what went into my favorite movies that made them so magical. I learned about what animation and special effects are and how important they are to the movie industry. I’ve volunteered at conventions like The Walking Dead Escape and Walker Stalker Con and interned at a special effects studio to get involved in the process. Since enrolling at LaGrange College, I’ve been able to improve my skills in drawing, sculpture, painting, and animation. Special Effects is a field that uses aspects from all of that and more and has challenged me to think in unconventional ways to solve problems. I hope to someday work on something that becomes a classic and makes magic seem real for someone like me.