Cat Nap
This motion project documents observed, intuitive movement through a stream-of-consciousness portrait of my cat Melvin and the rhythms of my immediate environment. Responding to the prompt of phenomenal movement, I worked with existing video recordings and hand-drawn animation rather than generating new footage, treating observation, reuse, and constraint as core methods. Hundreds of individual frames were drawn by hand on transparent sheets, scanned, and sequenced in After Effects, allowing analog imperfection, erasure, and variation to shape the final motion. The piece embraces looseness, off-beat pacing, and instrumental sound to reflect nonlinear thought and attention, while the process depicts labor, trial, and discovery. The project reflects my ongoing interest in intuitive image-making, frame-by-frame construction, and learning through doing rather than polish.
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