This is the 1st part of the Kriegshund animation.
This animation is an excerpt from the life of a soldier, whose sanity has crumbled into murderous hallucinations as he wades through the indiscriminate carnage of trench warfare. From a conceptual standpoint, my desire is to focus on the psychological necrosis of the individual when submerged in a world of slaughter.
Stylistically, the animations are a sepia-toned graphic form of crime noir. To further the graphic aesthetic, I made the animations operate as if they are moving comic books. The shots, transitions and layouts of the animations all follow a comic framing convention of my design. I incorporated a rough line quality with half-tone dot patterns to help cross the boundaries of animation and static comic book illustrations. My ambition is to portray a graphic style that is in keeping with the macabre nature of the subject matter that I have chosen to undertake.
To bring my character study to fruition, I utilized a variety of animation techniques. The majority of my process revolves around frame-by-frame hand drawn animation. I also incorporated computer generated 3D elements and rotoscoped footage via a variety of compositing techniques to aid my hand drawn work. From a methodological perspective, my desire is to seamlessly blend multiple techniques so that no distinction can be made between the original animation elements.
Holy shit this is great! Somehow stumbled across your vid and glad I did.
Nothingface2011 7 months ago