Siren song

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I made a test anim­a­tion for one of the puppets from my uni project. The movement’s pretty rough, I’ll refine it later (I also need to clean up the mask­ing). I just wanted to see if it worked. I’ve been reread­ing James Joyce’s Ulysses, and in the sirens section the barmaids are constantly described as “bronze gold”, so I made my sirens bronze coloured. Might as well. Ulysses is heavy going. I think read­ing it the way it origin­ally appeared, as separ­ate epis­odes is much more fun than plough­ing through it as a book. I still think my favour­ite thing about it is that the equi­val­ent of Penelope is constantly unfaith­ful. If you do a 3 month univer­sity course on Homer­ic epic, you get pretty tired of his char­ac­ter taglines (“faith­ful Penlope” “wily Odys­seus” “wine-dark sea”) again and again. It’s not like you have to memor­ise the whole thing to recite at a feast like they did in 800BC.

sirens screenshot

After Effects owns my soul now it seems. Tedi­ous program.

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