Behind the Scenes

The Final Dance

A collab with @singlezer0 and @pandelic for the music. 

Little /behindthescenes thread

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Animator, photographer || LCDLC 

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Mixed media artist. In love with charcoal, digital, AI, not necessarily in that order.

Deputy curator for 
@artcrush

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The Final Dance represents our perception of the world today, an environment seemingly spiraling into chaos.

But how should we respond?

Our answer is to enjoy the final moments and dance through it all, until the very end !

Some insights of the process if you like, it was a long ride, again.

As usual with my work, I strive to make the best use of any ideas, tools, and processes I have at my disposal.

While trying the new version of MJ, v4 at the time, I noticed something interesting, it was easy to create slight variations of the same generation.

The decomposition of movements I observed immediately reminded me of the work of Étienne-Jules Marey and Eadweard Muybridge.

The idea of using the latest tools available to produce material for the oldest method of animation, frame by frame, fascinated me.

However, I encountered a hurdle with this project, I have no knowledge of animation.

I reached out to @singlezer0, one of the most proficient video/animation artists I know, to see if he'd be interested in collaborating.

Fortunately, he was not discouraged by the considerable workload needed to make this project a reality.

So I made those for him, 132 images.

I sectioned the motions into three categories: forward, front, and backward.

Forward ones are centered on the left characters, front ones on all of them, backward ones on the right characters.

This process allowed Single to have all he needed to make various assemblages.

It took me a month to clean them all, here are some of the raw generations, there was extra limbs everywhere, anatomical incoherences, some alga like textures etc.

Correcting all this was a challenge, glad I wasn't alone on the project because I could have quit more than once.

As the project progressed, we thought it would be great to include music.

So, I reached out to the talented @pandelic, with whom I had previously collaborated on a project with @mrflosunday, and invited him to join us.

His contribution created a wonderful ambiance for the collab.

The synergy among three artists from different fields adds a layer of intrigue to the project I liked very much.

I hope you enjoy this collab as much as we do.

Thanks for reading !