Research: Salvador Dali

Salvador Dali

It is just not possible to venture into the world of dreams and other realities without mentioning Salvador Dali. Surrealist artists were generally influenced by dreams, but Dali was one of the main Surrealists and more is known about him. It is a fact, that he was interested in dreams and dream analysis, he was particularly drawn to the various theories put forward by Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung.

Research: Jerzy Kucia

Jerzy Kucia
An interesting animator from Poland. Very hard to find on the internet.
Uses a lot of dreamy ethereal sort of images. Has a unique way handling live footage and making it look like moving poetry.

Research: Rorschach's Inkblot Test

Rorschach's Inkblot Test
Is a method of psychological evaluation. Pschologists use thistest to determine and examine personality characteristics and emotional functioning of the patients. Psychiatrists show a series of different ink blots to the patients and ask them what they associate each image with. From the patient's response they determine the outcome. The system itself appears controversial because there is not a sure way to determine a person's feelings and personality, but I am fascinated with the way the inkblots look. The smears are very symmetrical and very unique. There can be no identical ink blots. The music video for Gnarls Barkley's video "Crazy" looks to have been also influenced by these tests. I want to use this too in my video.

Research: Ferenc Cako

Stone - Ferenc Cako
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferenc_Cako
Ferenc Cako is an amazing Hungarian animator who works with sand. Animation with sand is very versatile and is very useful when showing a metamorphosis of some kind. Images can be made and distorted esily with one blow through a straw. Judging by the imagery in this animation piece, I beleive that he may have been influenced by Andre Kertesz's photography also.
He was a principal part of my research because he uses the images I want already in motion apart from Kertesz who's are just still images.

Research: Andre Kertesz

Andre Kertesz is a surrealist photographer whose aesthetic I like very much and wanted to incorporate the distorted psychodelic style into my work. I think it add nicely to my dream like feel of the piece. This was possibly made using bent mirrors but today it is achievable with programs like photoshop and effects in After Effects.

Storyboards

And the one that didn't fit.

Storyboards

More storyboards.