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Viceland Weed Week: Bonedance

Agency Magnus Atom

Client VICE

Category

YG19

Annual ID

YG19_25_10

Description

For Viceland’s Weed Week, I was asked to create "visuals for stoners late at night" to play between Viceland shows and content. However, my hope was to create a piece that would go beyond the superficiality of stoner culture and create a visual poem that would get viewers thinking "outside of the box." Bonedance, is inspired in part by Stoned Ape Theory, in which some scientists posit human evolution was drastically spurred on by the ingestion of psilocybin mushrooms over hundreds of thousands of years. Whether true or not, it’s fun to think about when you’re smoking weed.


Professional or Personal
Professional

Creative Discipline
Animation

Role in Project
I individually conceptualized, animated, illustrated, composited and directed this animation. I also added my own sound design to personalize the music track.

After pitching the initial concept to the television network runners, I illustrated several styleframes that went on to dictate the final look of the piece. Having only a few weeks to execute, I took my inspiration from zoetrope style animation, and created several animated elements that I could then multiply and endlessly manipulate. This technique added several layers of complexity to the film, the end result being a kaleidoscopic and psychedelic animation I call a "zoetrip."

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