Ancient Egypt parallax

I’ve been designing Egyptian foliage for Seder-Masochism. The ancient Egyptian graphic style is pretty flat; there’s little if any perspective to give a sense of depth.

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However, animation can give a sense of depth without compromising the graphic style. Thanks to the magic of parallax, each still frame looks authentically flat, but in motion the scene looks 3-D. Nothing overlaps anything else but there’s still a foreground and background.

plants3Just one of many reasons animation is cool.

 

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Author: Nina Paley

Animator. Director. Artist. Scapegoat.

2 thoughts on “Ancient Egypt parallax”

  1. Just think the Fleischer Bros. actually had to set up physical backgrounds moving at different speeds to get this effect.

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