Communication Design School of Design
Louis Managh
I am a GSA graduate focusing mainly on illustration and animation. My work is based mainly around movement and gesture, aiming to capture the subtle moments and the nature and use of body language. I am often inspired by shape and how forms change in relation to weight and speed, through texture and a variety of media. My final year has been essential to the growth of my practice, intertwining narrative and action through drawing.
Projects
Collaborative Work
Porkhampton, 4:45, 2024
Porkhampton is an animated film intended as a remembered portrait of my home town, Stretford, Manchester. Working in a layered, straight ahead, hand drawn animation style highlighting the distortion between reality and the imagined. Movement and gesture is integral in the work, aiming to capture the subtle moments, the nature and use of body language whilst presenting these pillars hyperbolically. This project sparked an interest in experimental animation, which lead to inform my practice throughout the year.
Reflections, Hardback Comic, 2024
Reflection is a 200 page hardback comic made to mock the scholarly book for all its pompous exclusivity. The comic expands on this absurdity of the intellectual, by inflating a topic lathered in nonsense to the standards of this arrogant sub-sect. The performance of the lecture juxtaposes the topic and our expectations clearly. Doppelgängers in folk lore were often harbingers of bad luck and so the book resolves to a nonsensical conclusion, within this, he discusses the disparity between subjects with a high “H.G.B. level” and luck, in relation to his own appearance. I worked on a light box to create the illusion of slow subtle movement between pages. As each spread of the comic was a whole panel, I treated the frame almost as a stage in a one act play.
The Boy Who Learnt To Shiver
‘The Boy Who Learnt to Shiver’ is a collaborative puppet show adaption of the Grimm Brothers’ tale ‘The Boy Who Left Home To Learn Fear’. With hand-made puppets, set design and a live score, our play centres around an insolent, arrogant and selfish 7-year old boy, who is kicked out of home and follows his journey through gallows, taverns and crummy hotels. What could’ve been a tale of redemption and self-discovery ends in a… well, you’ll just have to find out for yourselves won’t you.