Keeper of the Pond

Xeno Piras-Trow

Summary
Final work

As an animation pathway student, my interests lie in using natural forms to create extraterrestrial and fantastical characters and narratives that can reflect back on our own circumstances, with the goal to suggest that the narrative may not just be fiction. Next year I will be studying Computer Animation and Visual Effects at Bournemouth University.

As an animation pathway student, my interests lie in using natural forms to create extraterrestri...

CollegeSchool of Pre-Degree Studies
CourseUAL Foundation Diploma in Art and Design
Graduation year2025

We are currently deemed to be in a sixth extinction, the Holocene Period, induced by mankind. Through this animation I sought to express the cycle of the these periods - a cycle of life, death and regeneration. I sought to express this through the contrast of an environment in its two states: devoid of life, expressed through 2D black and white; and abundant of life, expressed through 3D sculpting, stressing the difference in two realities we are currently faced with - to put in the effort to protect what life we have left, or to succumb, as nature will restore itself with or without us.