Grotesque Fresco is a generative video work inspired by opera, mythology, and grotesque painting, a decorative art style from the Italian Renaissance era. The immense animated painting is a v visual and digital ode to live arts, the visual composition suggests fragments of fantastic stories with a gallery of earthy characters interwoven with motifs of candelabra, foliage, flowers, insects, birds and flowers.
Combining various digital and cinematographic techniques, such as live-action filming with costumed performers, 2D and 3D animation, and timelapse images of plants. All visual elements are composites in a digital environment with generative animation with custom programmed algorithms.
Image: Allison Moore Homme vert (travail en cours) 2020. Courtesy the artist.
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