This idea was definitely influenced by the looming dread of Moving Pictures, as I began to consider over Christmas the logistics of what I was going to animate. I wanted to relate back to my ideas back in the beginnings of this module and researching Shakespeare from an illustrative point of view. My main overarching theme has been that I think the real hearts of these plays have been lifted into some higher cultural plane only truly available to people (white men) with English degrees (from Oxford) and beige suits (or tweed). These plays were never written for that, the upper classes of Shakespeare's day hated him precisely BECAUSE he wasn't university educated and managed to draw huge crowds consistently throughout his career as a playwright. These plays were written for the normal people, the equivalent of us in todays society, most of whom couldn't read, so theatre was their primary form of entertainment. They were filled with romance, violence, sex and magic, they were the blockbusters of their day, and I really wanted to get back to that common core in my exploration of Shakespeare.
Keeping with that, this design for The Tempest (which is full of so very much violence and witchcraft by the way) in particular has a heavy cinematic influence, taking inspiration from the corny swath of zombie horrors that have been everywhere since the 50s.
I didn't want to overcomplicate the composition as I'm keeping in mind the fact I still need to make this shift around in After Effects.
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