Mar de Dudas Mardom Music Assignment 2020 Animation
A friend told me that he was going to release a record with some personal songs.He told me that he would like some of these songs to have video clips and that one in particular, he would like me to do it with animation and my drawing style. I knew that it was a challenge for me, as I had ever done animations before but not of such duration, this song is more than 4 minutes length. But I thought it would be a good experience to develop my creativity, improve my technique and collaborate on a very interesting creative project. Animation and music I could ask for more?"At first I have to admit, I felt a little overwhelmed, since the possibilities and variations were literally endless"
My friend passed me the first track of the song so that I could get to know the theme, the style and the rhythm that the piece would have. He gave me absolute creative freedom, he just told me that it was a song that dealt with erotic-loving themes and that he would like me to solve it with my way of drawing, in his words, with my fluid drawing style, jazz type. At first I have to admit, I felt a little overwhelmed, since the possibilities and variations were literally endless. Even so, I decided to make a deep exploration of the meaning of the song, its rhythms, the instruments it used, its silences ...
I came to the conclusion that this song was constantly using metaphors, so I started making proposals and first sketches in which visual metaphors were of great importance. It is a story that tells of a character that is full of doubts, about his/her relationship, about the fate of their life ... so it occurred to me that the main character could be that, literally, a hodgepodge of doubts, my character It was going to be a walking and suffering doodle.
I came to the conclusion that this song was constantly using metaphors, so I started making proposals and first sketches in which visual metaphors were of great importance. It is a story that tells of a character that is full of doubts, about his/her relationship, about the fate of their life ... so it occurred to me that the main character could be that, literally, a hodgepodge of doubts, my character It was going to be a walking and suffering doodle.
I have used many symbolisms, in relation to the human body, to elements of nature, animals ... So we can see, how a flow of fish represents serenity, the figure of the snake as the quintessential symbol of evil and sin, the eyes that watch, white herons representing elegance, purity, truth.
