Nina Paley

The Stomping Behemoth

It moves! Animation test for my Behemoth design.

Now with bodies! No matter what I did, the Muse kept guiding me toward symmetry, especially adding the body. Yes it has 5 legs, like a Shedu. Yes it looks like a sheep. A powerful, gigantic, terrifying monster sheep. I still haven’t decided whether it will have 3 faces or 5.

Behemoth7.fla0001 — 2 legs bad, 4 legs good, 5 legs BEHEMOTH!

Behemoth7.fla0002 — 3 heads good, 5 heads better? Or vice-versa?

Choose your favorite Behemoth

Some Behemoth designs-in-progress, head only.

Like Leviathan, Behemoth is kosher, so I infer he/she/it is a cloven-hooved cud-chewer.

Leviathan

I designed this Leviathan for my upcoming Seder-Masochism project (new website coming soon). Jewish mythology doesn’t have a lot of visual representations of monsters. Lions, grapes, and decalogues, sure, but not monsters. The Big Three are Leviathan (the sea monster), Behemoth (the land monster), and Ziz (the air monster), all of which are KOSHER!

Copying Is Still Not Theft

Over at Techdirt.com, pro-SOPA/PIPA commenters continue to call copying “theft.” Since their main argument for breaking the Internet is fundamentally erroneous, now seems like a good time to re-post this riposte:

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Gatekeepers

Shedus. Designs modified since yesterday’s post.