The Kick About #1 - Moon In A Bottle

The kick about at Red's Kingdom is underway, the first prompt being Moon In A Bottle by Max Ernst,
I enjoy creating using a process like this, trusting there's method to your madness to end up with something in the end is what I am attempting to put into practice nowadays - it's basically a form of automatism.

I think it's important to know that you can peel it back - If something works you can turn your thinking cap back on and try and make sense of it to understand why. That golden moment when something clicks and the piece starts to make sense is a feeling I crave every time.

Max Ernst -Moon In A Bottle 

At first I tried to think of how Moon In A Bottle made me feel, the way that the painting bends around towards you makes it feel encapsulating, it brings an uneasy feeling like something is trapped... or maybe thats just lockdown?? also what the hell is that red and purple thing in the middle? so many questions too difficult to answer... so I started to paint.

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〰️I envision a beach with textured hard shells and unfamiliar effigies hiding in the sand and waiting to pounce at the twinge of life

Manifestation 1

 Manifestation 2

〰️But the moon illuminates, it casts a glow on everything, a bottle on the other hand is man made - it could be plastic - it could be glass, it could be melted or it could be hard like a shell? But it too reflects and can glow.

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 Manifestation 3

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Manifestation 5

 Manifestation 6

 Manifestation 7

Manifestation 8

Minor: Lost Boy - Pre-Viz//Animatic Progress

I have been working on the pre-viz/animatic for Lost Boy. Before I continue with it, I think it is in my best interest to create a shot list as I am finding it difficult to know how many frames a shot should last or how long a shot should linger after I say the lines.  As I am getting inspiration for shots while using Maya it would also be nice to know how many frames I can allow myself to see if I can fit those ideas for certain shots into the film as I don't want to make things too long as Phil mentioned I need to be cut throat in regards to what I will show and cut.

For the elements showing the "Nervous ball of energy" I want those to be rotoscoped in red and black possibly on top of the spherical alpha map, I will do some tests with this. I never shared a 2D abstract animation that I created using the animation toolbar for Photoshop while in Beijing for the animation workshop showing the emotion of anger, I think some of that rotoscope style would work nicely for the nervous ball of energy.
shot_1_shoelace.2 from Graeme Daly on Vimeo.

Abstract 2D Animation