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Battle of egos

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Testing out some new pens I had over christmas. Yes, I draw hella teeny.

This scene from Dawnsong, a battle between Reynard and Ysengrim upon the roof-atrium of a decrepit roman fortress (Maupertius), is one of my more insane ideas. The final result won't look even CLOSE to this.
No music will be used save eerie percussion effects, close-ups and whirling distortions will disorient the viewer, the light will me saturated, white-yellow, and blinding. In the end, the animation will be multiplied and distorted per frame in jagged, dynamic fashion; almost identical (I am using this as a device to hold down the unpredictable violence) to the terms outlined in Boccioni, Carra, Russolo, Balla, and Severini's 'Technical Manifesto of Futurist Painting.'

"The gesture which we would reproduce on canvas shall no longer be a fixed moment in universal dynamism. It shall simply be the dynamic sensation itself.
Indeed, all things move, all things run, all things are rapidly changing. A profile is never motionless before our eyes, but it constantly appears and disappears. On account of the persistence and distortion of an image upon the retina, moving objects constantly multiply themselves; their form changes like rapid vibrations, in their mad career. Thus a running horse has not four legs, but twenty, and their movements are triangular.
To paint a human figure you must not paint it; you must render the whole of its surrounding atmosphere. The sixteen people around you in a rolling motor bus are in turn and at the same time one, ten, four, three; they are motionless and they change places; they come and go, bound into the street, are suddenly swallowed up by the sunshine, then come back and sit before you, like persistent symbols of universal vibration.
The construction of pictures has hitherto been foolishly traditional. Painters have shown us the objects and the people placed before us. We shall henceforward put the spectator in the center of the picture.
Our bodies penetrate the sofas upon which we sit, and the sofas penetrate our bodies. The motor bus rushes into the houses which it passes, and in their turn the houses throw themselves upon the motor bus and are blended with it. [Insert sodomy joke]"

Don't be inspired by them, please. They glorified war, fascism, misogyny, and contempt for pasta. But that said, their art was hella cool.

Size: 2.75"x6".
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Canescen's avatar
I'm not too keen on drawing and such, but the art style seems to fit the title very well :D Nice gaunt background!!