The endless loop of "The Fruit Bowl" animation speaks of our ever ongoing challenges in life, fraught with confusion and mystery, as we look one way, we do not see what is in the other direction. Somehow we are destined to repeat our patterns in life until one day we are able to understand that pattern. This animation shows how it is possible to be caught in an endless repetition, cycling forever, such as addiction, ignorance, or other looping behaviors. If we would only look the other way for an instant, we might realize what we are doing. C’est La Vie, we never are likely to do so, and this is called human nature.
My first efforts at animation were viewed by "flipping the pages" of my books in grade school. A little stick figure would fly through the air and bounce off the edge of the page, and tumble down the margin channel, bumping letters along the way until he crashed at the bottom.
At School of Visual Arts, in 1974-75, I studied conventional 2D animation which was very interesting, since they had on premises, what was then, fairly state of the art animation equipment, consisting of registration tables for cell construction and advanced vertical camera equipped with zoom and pan capability, remote exposure control, and scrollable, multilayered, registration board.
Recently prompted to learn Maya, by an old friend of mine, I have begun to study this incredible program by attending some classes at a local college. The first result of that attendance was this animation project.
