It's surprising what you can do with some folded paper. Or, more accurately, it's surprising what filmmaker Jesse Yules can do with folded paper. Last year he released a music video for Warm Myth's "Working" using origami (the same principle that you use to make George Washington frown on a dollar bill) and mirrors to animate the images he'd painting onto the paper, recreating the kaleidoscope effect from After Effects, but doing it IRL.And because it worked so well, he dediced to use the techinque again, this time for DIANA's "Perpetual Surrender" with visuals that have a certain mythical quality to them. "I'm a big fan of William Blake's paintings." Yules says. "Blake was able to integrate figures and geometric so well. I've always loved his type of Western mysticism. It boarders on the occult, even though Blake was a Christian."He further explains below: "Perpetual Surrender" is my second video experimenting with folded paintings. This time I used images with a strong, singular light source, that cast a shadow on one side of the figure (Carmen Elle from DIANA). I tried to illustrate the idea of a personality with different sides, by mirroring and animating the lit side of the portrait, then contrasting that by mirroring the shadow side of the portrait.Take a look at the video above and some GIFs of the animation below.
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