S2C1: 2112 and Dream Sequences

Following on from my initial ideas i began looking at the song and creating ideas for the piece. i looked a famous dream sequence done by salvador dali, to gauge inspiration for how to create my animatic.

Salvador Dali

Dalí was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work. His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance masters.His best-known work, The Persistence of Memory, was completed in August 1931. Dalí's expansive artistic repertoire included film, sculpture, and photography, in collaboration with a range of artists in a variety of media.

Dalí attributed his "love of everything that is gilded and excessive, my passion for luxury and my love of oriental clothes" to an "Arab lineage", claiming that his ancestors were descended from the Moors.

Dalí was highly imaginative, and also enjoyed indulging in unusual and grandiose behavior. His eccentric manner and attention-grabbing public actions sometimes drew more attention than his artwork, to the dismay of those who held his work in high esteem, and to the irritation of his critics.

After seeing Dali's dream sequence i began to look more at his work, especially his piece on Metamorphosis, and how things change into other things, i believe that studying Dali's work will give me a good idea on how to incorporate the surrealist ideas in my animatic and make some very interesting transitions.

surrealism

noun

1. a 20th-century avant-garde movement in art and literature which sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind, for example by the irrational juxtaposition of images.

After looking at Dali's work, i began to look at surrealism as a whole. Its odd juxtaposition of images within each piece creates a very psychedelic feel to them which is ideal for a dream sequence. I really like the idea of eyes appearing and changing into other things, so want to incorporate that into my own work.