Splash Hand

I wanted to have a hand reaching out of a hypnotic spiral. I made it as part of the tongue saliva and animated the motion using After Effects and the 3D rotation.

Smash

Separating Finger

I wanted to incorporate the body being broken up and combining with different parts. The first attempt I decided to try was the finger detaching from the hand.

Researching different animations of mutilation and morphing. I found an artist who I had been interested in for a while without knowing his name. Anthony F Schepperd's animations are extremely unique and psychedelic, in which he uses body parts and expertly morphs them in a smooth and doughy style transition.

Using the stretching technique as reference, I wanted to add a similar effect to my animation by having a finger separate from a hand. 

I started by using an outline of a relaxed hand and then began to turn the finger inwards.

In order to get the stretchy effect, I wanted something slightly different from Schepperd's style of stretching out infinitely. For my style, I wanted something that resembled the consistency of chewing gum, therefore I tried to simulate a stretching motion by having the middle become thinner before snapping off.

I made the inside of the finger a neon blue in order to keep the consistency.

The finished version

Nose and Ear

Skull

Underneath the melting head, I wanted a vibrant skull to be underneath.

After Anne had shown me work from the Chapman brothers, I wanted to use a design that resembled some of their mutilated sculptures.

I wasn't entirely happy with this design, As it seemed a bit flat and too simple for what I was trying to achieve. I went and redesigned the skull to something slightly more skull-like. I used the Day of the Dead skulls as reference to create my own design.

Melting Head

I wanted to try a melting effect from a head shape. This would then uncover a detailed skull underneath.

Originally, I had intended for the melting head to be a single motion. However during editing, I discovered a nice effect which happened when I placed the animations over each other. This gave the shape more layers.

Legs

Arms

Production Pack

Production Pack

Mouth Eye

I saw a weird design with an eye inside a mouth. This gave me an idea to incorporate into my own work as it reminded me of the artwork from The Adamson Collection. Eyes were a very prominent feature in many of the artist's work. The disturbing nature of a fully visible eyeball can relate to the vulnerability of people, with fear paranoia being a couple examples.

After effects

After speaking with Phillip, I was confident in using After effects to edit the animated composition together. The Continuously Rasterize option allowed my vectors to stay in high quality whenever I changed the dimensions which helped prevent it from being pixelated.

He also gave me a lot of insight into the different effects which were available to me. In particular, the effect 'Turbulent Displace' was very useful, in that it allowed me to create a dynamic wiggle/disorientation in order to make the animation look less flat.