2018 - "The Mighty 5 Shall Rise"

by pietro marchioni - dubai, uae

From Pietro:

The Mighty 5 Shall Rise, Birth of a Hero.
The lightness, the heaviness and the absence of both. 

Out of the pages of a book, Five, is born, barely seen. A composition of mist and lights like an old library shelve. Here I had fun with some masks to shape the ink, age the pages, giving a slow movement to the rising, to feel the solemnity of the moment. Then Five is falling in a different scenario, pushed by the gravity. I kept my composition dry, sterile, with nothing else than that I could use inside an action. Exercises in style. Playing with the animation curves to simulate dynamics. And then the Five slide, and reappear with a metal shell, floating off into space. There is no more gravity and the air is crisp, with light coming from a far away sun bouncing off the metal shell of Five. And I signed off in ink on my old school copybook.

It was great fun to create the story of my character walking on the edge of creating everything inside flame. I though at first of fitting it all in a single batch, but then I wanted to connect the different parts of the story with a glitch that would transport us in a different digital space within the same story. So I moved everything on a timeline, with BFXs layered, to give me more flexibility.

It was fun to participate. Thanks for keeping up the community with such great initiatives
Ciao Pietro