TheRingOfDOOM project started out as a failed stop motion endeavor back in 2016 and I’ve only recently begun to tackle that storytelling technique again in the last few months. I’ve started a YouTube playlist of my stop motion animation that has remained at two videos for far too long but I’ll get on that later today. Since I dream very big, this endeavor quickly became overwhelming because someone offered to pay me to make them music videos for their recent EP which I turned into a five part series about climate change… a huge jump from thirty seconds of a swimming Dalían fish. He even said it didn’t need to be an enormous endeavor but I tend to lean toward super extra giant never-ending projects (music video encyclopedia etc.) so it escalated quickly to the point of a false start. I’ve declared today to be one of the days in which I get back to work on it and will hopefully be able to share the results of my labor of art very soon. I did make a bunch of collaged waves and a big outer space background for the cardboard box movie set so I’m not starting from zero.
This first stop motion animation video was made the longest way possible on iMovie before I realized the Stop Motion app was much more user-friendly and 10x faster for this purpose. It’s pretty anti-climactic as TheRingOfDOOM is just hoverboarding across a Dalían sky but I’m grateful to have learned so much while making it and the background remains to be one of my favorite collages from my #MFDALÍ collection.
This second stop motion animation was made with a few different Dalí images and my own collection of pink pieces of paper from magazines etc. I quickly escalated this in my mind to the point in which I wanted to recreate the epic timing of the walk in Michael Jackson’s The Way You Make Me Feel video via Dalían collage which is a seriously huge overwhelming jump. I often forget to be kind to myself by taking one step at a time and tend to leap into the abyss of my own creativity even though it usually ends up with me feeling disappointed in myself for not accomplishing something unreasonably difficult. Writing this down is a great step in not doing that next time. Can’t wait to see what I finish next…