Kevin Riordan Looking Outwards-07

For Looking Outwards this week, I chose to do the project This Exquisite Forest, which is a project created by Aaron Koblin and Chris Milk between 2012 and 2014.

This Exquisite Forest Introduction Video.

I admire this project because of how community driven it is. The creators made the framework, but then as shown in the pictures below, the community was in charge of all of the actual content of the ‘forest’.  The artist’s sensibilities are actually barely manifested in the final form of the project, as it is community driven for what animations are used. The actual form of the trees is controlled by the creators, however, and is very clean and minimalist. The overall structure was also created by them as well, and I admire how when you click on a leaf at the end of a tree, you can see the entire ‘story’ that it took to get there. As shown below in the first picture, each individual tree’s community creator has the option of adding as detailed of instructions as they want.