#movement project

Then I had to select my two favourite ones, the two on the right, and redraw them in a final version.

Paul Gardiner kindly lent me his copy of this novel to read.

I read it cover to cover in the library taking notes on my favourite pages.

Epithet Erased is an Indie Animation by Brendan Blaber also known as JellloApocalypse about a girl named Molly who lives in a world where some people are inscribed with an Eptithet. That means some people have a soul word which allows them to have certain abilities, for example Molly has the Epithet called "Dumb" she can silence/mute others and simplify things or other epithets aka she can dumb things down.

Now what stood out the most in the short animated series is the way it is animated, instead of animating everything out in the series most is just told through sprites being moved which makes it more like a game than an animation at times. Health reduction numbers also appear when getting hit or attacked. This gives it also a more lighthearted vibe.

It is a style that stands out quite a lot and also something worthy of notice is the specific storytelling audio-wise it uses with characters explaining their actions in the third person. One of my thoughts about that fact is that it is reminiscent of reading out loud script during practice just instead of having someone else read the stage cues, each character reads them out loud for themselves and another thing is that it reminds me of movies with deaf audio subtitles, it makes the show seem very inclusive while by making each character read their own actions make it sound like a fun little gimmick.

Artist Reaserch: Edward Twohig

Q Hayashida is a Japanese manga creator known for her works such as Dorohedoro and Dai Dark.

In one of her rare interviews, Hayashida reveals that she is a mixed media artist who uses whatever media she ‘feels like in the moment.’

The chaotic, sketchy, raw and colourful look to her art works harmoniously as she depicts her gory and dark but funny stories.

I love her usage of gouache, watercolour, ink and pen, majority of the time mixing these media together in the same piece creating a layered texture reminiscent of grime, reflecting the apocalyptic settings often found in Hayashida’s manga. Matching her colours, line weight and compositions to fit each scene and its tone is highly impressive and a source of inspiration for myself since I first read her work Dorohedoro many months ago.

Her character design is also equally interesting. Dorohedoro’s cast including the protagonist, Kaiman, a man with a lizard head searching for the sorcerer who cursed him, mypersonal favourite being Jonson, a giant realistic cockroach and plenty others, diverse, well-written and designed human characters. I can’t forget the monsters, each with unique personalities highlighted by their designs, brilliantly adding to the horror aspect of her works.

In the morning, I quickly added the finishing touches, particularly eyelashes to the close up of an eye, and assembled my frames. However, I still need to do some editing, as I want to create a loop and use the intended song as the background.

Abby Howard is a comic artist and a game developer who co-founded Black Tabby C. She had worked on the game slay the princess and Scarlet Hollows both as the artist and one of the game developers for it. The comics that Abby creates tend to be small slice of life type comic where as her games tend to heavily lean into visual novels.