ANA MARIA MICU
  • Works
    • On canvas >
      • 2023 - >
        • engaging activities
      • 2021 - 2022 >
        • daylight apertures
        • night after night
        • indoor and outdoor environment
        • for campers to share
        • lifetime educational
        • restraint and seclusion
        • blurry and like a
        • expansion joints
        • services due to
        • indoors during
        • Left Hand
        • Distant View
      • 2019 - 2020
      • 2017 - 2018
      • 2015 - 2016
      • 2011 - 2013
      • 2009 - 2010
      • 2007 - 2008
    • On Paper >
      • 2022
      • What Hurts the Most Is Left for Last
      • The Apprentice with no Sorcerer
      • Sketchbook
    • Stop Motion Animations
    • Serigraphy
  • Projects
    • Shows >
      • Left Hand To Distant View
      • Studies for a Burning Silence
      • Unlimited Visuality
      • The Aftermath of a Losing Battle
      • The Artist’s Workshop
      • Flowing Light
      • The Poetic Realm
      • Objects Must Be Comfortable
      • 12 Years After
      • Speaking About the Unknown
      • A Picture on the Wall
      • Self-Portrait
      • ​​The Road Not Taken Ch. 2​
      • Self-portrait with Indoor Plant
      • Installing the Image
      • A Conscious Choice for Temporary Blindness
      • Tender Heart, Keep Still!
      • Understatement
    • Others >
      • The Insufficiency of Self
      • ​Can Serrat Art Residency
      • Scenography for Painting
      • The Wall Watcher
      • Abstract Circle
      • Changing Background
      • How to Mend Unbroken Things
      • Freehand Digital Drawing Documented by Real-time Video Screen Capturing
      • Production as Tableau Vivant
      • Image Search
      • The Presentation
  • Publication
  • ART FAIRS
    • Art Taipei 2022
    • Taipei Dangdai 2020
    • Art Fair Philippines 2020
    • Art Fair Philippines 2019
    • Art Düsseldorf 2018
  • CV
  • Contact
My connection with animation developed from an interest in expanding the field of painting and drawing. At first, I saw it as a medium that could most optimally describe the bigger picture in which an image could reside. I wanted to see how my paintings would station in a moving environment. I have done some experimental exercises as screen-capturing a hand-drawn accumulation of spots around a given picture, or animating marks on the wall around a taped drawing.

Continuing to pay attention to what is happening while I draw, I also became interested in watching as a stop motion animation the materials that document the evolution of an image. I find interesting information when I observe the gradual transformations or before-and-after comparisons between two stages.
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I fully established my practice in this medium once I begin experimenting with plasticine. I am satisfied with animating bas-reliefs, as two-dimensional compositions. My fascination is with the solutions that were employed at the beginning of the movie industry when the vast majority of the effects were shouldered almost solely by enormous creativity and a generous induction of awe. I constantly try to educate myself, but it seems that I never stray too far from the initial influences of Georges Méliès and Lotte Reiniger. My method remains, by choice, minimal and naïve, and I try to supply it with an inventiveness that sprouts in my mind during my painting studio hours. The subject matter is often congruent with the concepts in my other works.
To Heal You, I Hardly Know What to Do,
​stop motion charcoal and chalk drawing animation, 13s, 3840 x 2160px, no audio, 2023
​Untitled,
stop motion charcoal and chalk drawing animation, 36s, 3840 x 2160 px, no audio, 2022

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​​No title
collage of raw video footage and 3D animation | 1920 x 1080 px | 2m49s continuous loop | audio | 2022

Ana Maria Micu - concept, raw video footage
Alexandra Constantinescu, Radu Constantinescu - concept, 3D animation, and editing

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Karma Speech
​stop motion charcoal drawing animation | 14s loop | 3840 x 2160 px | no audio | 2022

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for campers to share. ... House Area
stop motion animation | 22s loop | 3840 x 2160 px | no audio | 2022
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The Easy Way to Heal Yourself
stop motion animation with clay and light | 1m31s | 3840 x 2160 px | ​no audio | 2021
​Excerpt from "Acqua Alta"
animation | 6m2s | no audio | 2021
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Ana Maria Micu - concept, digital drawing, clay animation, and editing
Alexandra Constantinescu, Radu Constantinescu - concept, 3D animation

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What Hurts the Most Is Left for Last
stop motion animation | 2m25s | no audio | 2018

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stillness is actually ... Then non-dual
stop motion animation | 5m | no audio | 2017

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no title
stop motion animation | 2m | no audio | 2016

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One Day
stop motion animation | 2m38s | no audio | 2016

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no title
stop motion animation | 18m5s | no audio | 2014

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  • Works
    • On canvas >
      • 2023 - >
        • engaging activities
      • 2021 - 2022 >
        • daylight apertures
        • night after night
        • indoor and outdoor environment
        • for campers to share
        • lifetime educational
        • restraint and seclusion
        • blurry and like a
        • expansion joints
        • services due to
        • indoors during
        • Left Hand
        • Distant View
      • 2019 - 2020
      • 2017 - 2018
      • 2015 - 2016
      • 2011 - 2013
      • 2009 - 2010
      • 2007 - 2008
    • On Paper >
      • 2022
      • What Hurts the Most Is Left for Last
      • The Apprentice with no Sorcerer
      • Sketchbook
    • Stop Motion Animations
    • Serigraphy
  • Projects
    • Shows >
      • Left Hand To Distant View
      • Studies for a Burning Silence
      • Unlimited Visuality
      • The Aftermath of a Losing Battle
      • The Artist’s Workshop
      • Flowing Light
      • The Poetic Realm
      • Objects Must Be Comfortable
      • 12 Years After
      • Speaking About the Unknown
      • A Picture on the Wall
      • Self-Portrait
      • ​​The Road Not Taken Ch. 2​
      • Self-portrait with Indoor Plant
      • Installing the Image
      • A Conscious Choice for Temporary Blindness
      • Tender Heart, Keep Still!
      • Understatement
    • Others >
      • The Insufficiency of Self
      • ​Can Serrat Art Residency
      • Scenography for Painting
      • The Wall Watcher
      • Abstract Circle
      • Changing Background
      • How to Mend Unbroken Things
      • Freehand Digital Drawing Documented by Real-time Video Screen Capturing
      • Production as Tableau Vivant
      • Image Search
      • The Presentation
  • Publication
  • ART FAIRS
    • Art Taipei 2022
    • Taipei Dangdai 2020
    • Art Fair Philippines 2020
    • Art Fair Philippines 2019
    • Art Düsseldorf 2018
  • CV
  • Contact