This film was completed as part of my Masters by Research degree in Moving Image Studies.
Investigating the life and work of Paul Julian, a background painter for Looney Tunes cartoons in the 1940s, this work combines digital animation, video recordings of 8mm film projections, digital capture of oil paintings, and many other media crossovers.
I aimed to create an immersive visual landscape that prioritised the background paintings and destabilised the viewer's gaze in engaging with this kind of material.
Below is the film itself, the poster I designed for it, and some preparatory sketches which I used to map out and visualise the internal structures of the film, when approaching it from an editing perspective.
The website served as a visual representation of the written work I was doing. I aimed to display and collate further research material, visual inspiration, and be exacting in my layout and design choices.
This required me to learn HTML coding from scratch, which I did over the course of a few weeks.
The final website can be found here.
