Experimental - Psychedelic Head Idea

Being inspired by my own work, both within my study of Art and my work with Jack in the past - on his EP for Shit Music - I've planned and created a small concept which is quite psychedelic. I storyboarded out my idea and animated it using Flash.

To the right I have clearly given evidence of both my own Art, which used various inks and acrylic paints layered over different pieces of paper, along with the cover for Shit Music which was illustrated using Illustrator.





I only managed to animate roughly this section of the plan in which I indicate how I wish to have some miscellaneous liquid - which I would presumably make vibrant in order to adhere to psychedelic convention, as it is visually entertaining to watch - to pour from Jack's mouth and perhaps other parts of the screen or his eyes. This design is again inspired by my own art and work on Shit Music.

















These last parts of the storyboard just link to how I could either transition to Jack playing music with a whip pan transition (right) or create a psychedelic spiral animation (left). I didn't wish to waste time doing these in the test footage as I might not need them.


Video of Ideas



I tried to animate the head but it took quite a long time as seen in the first idea's footage, since I had to redraw the head for every frame. I personally prefer the second and third ideas in their use of my friend Max's head; in the second and third ideas, I used various images of Max that were cut out in Photoshop and given a transparent background, in order to overlay into Flash.

The second clip was quicker to do as I took different pictures of Max in order to achieve the stop motion effect, and while the quality of the image was poor (due to resizing) I believe it worked in my favour stylistically - it seems quite like Dada art or perhaps Monty Python or the early Mortal Kombat games. The third idea was done in an effort to experiment with whether or not I can simply manipulate an image into doing certain actions, such as a static closed mouth picture opening its mouth with a puppet-like mechanism. While the technique could prove useful, the Photoshop on it took longer than necessary as I could just take different pictures to create a stop motion video.