Final Project Prototype, take 2.

Slowly but surely the flipbooks are coming along. The process is very tedious and I now have a newfound appreciation for hand-drawn animation.

Basically I've decided that I want to display 3 main elements:
1) how the animals have/will change
2) how nature (as we know it) is disappearing
3) how garbage (mostly e-waste) is appearing

The animals will change as a result of the other two; because of all the garbage and e-waste, nature as we know it cannot survive due to the toxic chemicals found in our everything things. Humans, with long life expectancies, cannot evolve quickly enough to be able to fight off the toxins and very few survive. Animals on the other hand, with much shorter live times can and will evolve into creatures that are unfathomable to us today, helping them to become immune to the toxic effects of the chemicals found in garbage and e-waste.

These flipbooks will serve as a message from the future as to why we need better e-waste management and control today. They will show the consequences of creating items with planned obsolescence that are known even today to have toxic chemical compounds.

As the animals, in this case coyote, change so will the 2 background images. The real photo of the ground and rocks will sink lower and lower to the bottom of the frame until there is nothing left. The garbage, in this case cell phones, will continue to climb up to the top of the frame until it and the animal are all that is left.

I'm still fine tuning the backgrounds and deciding on colors, sizes, and whether or not to use a real image for the garbage. Keep in mind, these pictures only show about 1/2 of the flipbook for coyotes. There will be a total of 4 books, 4.75" x 2.75", showing the consequences of 4 kinds of garbage on 4 kinds of animals found in Glen Canyon Park (coyote, hawk, snake, and mouse).