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Motion Art Journal I am an art geek fascinated by short motion work, also know as animated gifs.  I think that this is a new art form and in this blog I explore why I think that, discuss the best gif artists today and dive into the past for reference points.

I have not abandoned this blog but I am now focusing my efforts writing about Motion Art in the new publication about NFTs art called UNDRGRND.

I had planned to repost my articles here but I have not found time to do that work and so instead will post links to what I have written so far.

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I am being paid a small amount so you can surely understand how I could prioritize that for now at least. UNDRGRND is a very good publication and you can learn about interesting NFT artists and trends if you follow it as well as read my pieces when they first come out. I do appreciate the support I have received for my writing of this blog in Tumblr over the years and will keep it alive, at least for reposting articles I write in UNDRGRND. Who knows what the future may bring.

I have been wanting to write about Molly Fairhurst for a long time. Molly Fairhurst is an established illustrator and animator based in Bristol UK. Her work does not *quite* fit the category of short form motion I typically write about but for this latest piece I decided to throw caution to the wind. It is just 30 seconds and is shows Nov 6 at the Out the Window exhibition in Bristol UK.

I love her work because of how simple and yet how perfectly calculated it is. All of her drawings are made by hand and they always looks adorable and clever and a bit messy but every single line and blot and color is carefully considered. She is extremely judicious about the use of color. Every seeming mistake is in there because she realizes it adds to the overall feel. Because of this every single thing she does feels like Molly Fairhurst. This is what an artist looks like.

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In that past year I have noticed her doing more and more animation and her approach to it is exactly the same. Every bit of animation, seemingly simplistic, is carefully considered - there is not a wasted frame. The movement all works perfectly with her style of drawing. Everything is always moving, pulsing, in a gentle way. It feels alive. The work is perfectly timed. No extras, no obvious looping to extend things. As I said before, despite her seemingly casual handmade style she is an great editor of her own work.

I admire how she has made the animation of her illustrations an extension of her style. She doesn’t just move her drawings around as some illustrators trying to get into animation do. They are fully part of her art.

Her little animation of last Christmas ‘Snowboy Star and Seekan’ was a beautiful and perfect heartbreakingly sweet, and short, motion poem. With a perfect soundtrack.

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The piece I have posted is pure Molly Fairhurst. Adorable, sweet, hand made messy in a blue and off white palette - and perfect.

One last thing I will say about Molly Fairhurst is that she is a thoroughly modern artist. She is an online artist. She posts to her Instagram, both stories and artwork, many many times a day. If you follow her you feel that she is part of your life because so much of herself is online. And yet most all of her work is all made by hand with ink and brushes and paper.

I have friends who make art by hand who still feel that somehow crossing into online art is a huge leap. Molly Fairhurst is an example that that this is not the case. It is all a continuum. Our digital and irl lives can overlap and be one life.

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I recently wrote about Frederick Vanhoutte and his beautiful spontaneous beach animation. Whether that nudged him back into doing more motion work or was simply a preview of ideas he was already developing I do not know, but I just saw this wonderful series of animations he posted on Instagram and had to write a little bit about it (make sure to watch all 4).

These pieces are definitely in the motion style that he has worked with in the past but they are also new in the way they are presented and colored. The same geometrical unfolding and rotating and folding is happening but with a wonderful spectrum of colors that are also mirrored in some way that make them appear like a beautiful generative insect (I think of a dragonfly) slowly unfurling and closing its coded wings.

It is like a nature study. Nature is based on math (according to many scientists) and Frederick is literally using math to create these studies, so there is a connection since it is all part of the continuum of the natural world. You could almost say it is as much of a nature study as someone doing a hyperrealistic 3D render of a dragonfly - except this is much more interesting I think. A work like this creates a bridge between what we see in nature and the code we are using today to digitize the world. But this work is native to its environment, so in a sense more honest, more direct.

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In the end, I just think these are beautiful. I love the choice of colors and I love the snapping movements, which remind me that this is made with code that has an specific type of ease in calculating the way it moves into place.

Carlo Vega has a wonderful inspiringbackstory that starts in Lima, Peru, goes through Montreal and South Carolina and winds up in Brooklyn, where he has been doing high quality Motion Design for 20 years under the banner of Clyde Fox

He thinks in motion, and his recent series, ‘Minimal’ is a great example of this. All of the pieces are abstract, and done with simple geometric shapes in black and white and shades of gray. Everything is moving all the time in different combinations and with different speeds and transparency and action. But each piece is short and compact and loops and contains just a handful of elements. There is no narrative. In some, triangles and arrows and rectangles dominate and in others circles and arc and radial lines dominate. The pace of each piece is different; some are fast, some are slow. Some are elegant and silky and some are hyper and jumpy. It is impossible to make a still and understand what the work is, because the work IS the motion + the elements. So you have to watch it a few times to understand what he is doing and what each piece is.

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Also, according to Carlo, these are made primarily in After Effects, but with some additional scripting. So they are a hybrid of code and timeline based animation. These days the assumption is that anything that looks like this would be made in code, usually with processing. I am looking forward to a time when the tool that the artist uses to create their work in does not automatically classify them into a tool specific niche that then includes them into exhibitions and overviews and articles and so on. Forget the tool…..what about the art?

Carlos’s elegant work is best seen on his Instagram but see here for a link tree to the various parts of his work.

I saw this come through on Instagram from Frederik Vanhoutte and was immediately knocked off my chair. It is beautiful, mesmerizing, perfect.

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I have know Frederik for a long time. I featured his work a couple of years ago in Cross Connect (pre-NFT!) when I was motion art curator there. And over the years I have chatted with him on Twitter and seen him develop into a force on hic et nunc in the NFT space.

He has not done a lot of animation of late (that I am aware of). But Frederik is a hard core artist, and when he wants to do something with motion it is going to be really interesting.

For this work he appears to be at the beach having vacation, because the Instagram still before and after show the beach. But, as artists do, he found a way to make a little masterpiece just shooting video at the beach.

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He did it in a rigidly formatted way, as is his style, but with variations. The rigidly formatted square format enhances the mesmerizing quality of the waves moving in and out and creates beautiful patterns. It is, to my mind, perfect.

When artists practice their craft as often as Frederik does, a work like this can just spring out of the air because it is as if it is in their muscle memory. So, from the beach, Frederik sends this little gem for us to enjoy.

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