For my Shakespearean animal, I focused on walruses. This was mainly because they're quite an odd animal, and you don't really see or hear much about them so I figured it'd be interesting to find out more. I found out they had quite a high spiritual profile for the people of the Arctic and mainly focused on this aspect within my work, as there wasn't much related to Shakespeare other than a description of what they looked like. I eventually started looking at Act 4 Scene 1 of Macbeth and started playing round with the idea of the witches wearing walrus themed masks. From these masks I started making colourful animated gifs to bring back the idea of spirituality and Shamanic rituals. Eventually I delved into the idea of these animated walrus masks being like a sort of alternative 'God' for people in a post apocalyptic world and made another, much longer, animated gif from this.
An initial drawing, exploring spirituality
The first gif I made, only changing the eyes
Another gif.
Final outcome.
The two figures are part of this 'walrus' religion and bow down to the masks
(This doesn't continually loop)
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