‘Fireman’: New Animated Painting

The final piece in my surreal animated paintings collection—which I will name ‘Anipaintings’—is ‘Fireman’, a tribute to Wolfgang Lettl’s ‘The Flight II' (1984).

Wolfgang Lettl’s ‘The Flight II' (1984)

Lettl’s mismatched perspectives made me think about our topsy-turvy economical times and the daily struggle of making ends meet. The disoriented two-dimensional man in the painting made me wonder what he could be running from—or rather from whom.

I wanted to keep most of the same elements in the painting for my piece and play around with them to achieve a very different mood—one a bit more direct and precise compared to the source painting’s ambivalence and ambiguity (as I interpreted it).

In my piece the man maintains a strong posture and is centrally-framed and obscured by the moonlight. The papers have a clear source. The buildings are miniature. Same elements; different layout, leading to radically different possibilities of interpretation.

As always: built and animated in Blender, and composited in After Effects. Gratitude for the awesome Tradigitalist Toolbag.

Take care,
Zuhair