Giger Revisited

I had an idea to use morphing to connect animations together, so the first one I thought of was the previous Giger animation on this channel. Creepy for sure, the morphing adds to the creepiness

[@larryaldrich4351]

Bizarre, distorted, decomposing babies were a prominent feature of Giger's "Necronomicon".

[@francolli]

Yep, he had the painting 'Birth machine' from 1974 I think, he knew that having children in an image along with his other weird stuff would set the viewer on edge and make them uncomfortable, that was the point. Giger was a really strange chap, a flawed genius

[@glennbond8266]

This was probably Giger’s mindset most of the time. Morning, Noon, and Night.

[@francolli]

Really interesting Guy Hans Ruedi Giger, he was painting this stuff when very few others were aside from Bekskinski and a handful of others. I came into Alien via Dark Star by Dan O'Bannon who later worked on the Alien crew. Dark star is the pre cursor movie for Alien

[@glennbond8266]

@@francolli I worked on Poltergeist 2. We had to look at his original drawings/designs for the creatures in the film. Of course they were amazing. Surreal. Avant Garde. It really inspired us. We kept hearing a rumor while working on the film that Giger had his dead girlfriend’s body (she had passed away too soon) boiled and her flesh taken away so that he could hang her skeleton in his work area. Where he drew. I wouldn’t doubt it.

[@francolli]

@@glennbond8266 ​ Aw man, what an honour to have worked on such a great movie. Giger was out there even by 70's standards and the Alien movie stands up to even modern day cinematography and special effects, a true classic. I mentioned further down the replies that I came into Alien via the 1974 movie Dark Star, the effects were dodgy but the movie was a mix between funny and utterly bleak. Dan O'Bannon (Sgt Pinback in the movie) went on to bring Alien to the big screen and you could see the precursors of the Alien story in Dark Star which is a cult classic in its own right

[@udolehmann5432]

Keep it up, I'm very excited to see how this develops 🤔👍

[@francolli]

It's only going to get better when I get the full animation set up organized, thanks for dropping by, keep an eye out for new stuff !

[@friskeysunset]

Stellar work. More please.

[@francolli]

More to come this week with a fun animation to celebrate world book day. A twisted version of the 3 pigs story read by a Scottish elf.

[@vasari9198]

I watched this with the last half of Free Bird over it and some of it synced up nicely.

[@francolli]

Maybe you have hit on an interesting idea here. Maybe I should do an animation without sound so people can add whatever music they like

[@vasari9198]

@@francolli I was watching your videos on one device whilst listening to music on another device; people could do that.

[@mikebasil4832]

Excellent work. Thanks for making and sharing it. 👍🏻

[@francolli]

Glad you enjoyed it! Mike, Giger was an interesting guy and Deforum itself is approaching the weirdness of Giger, the two seem well matched :)

[@Roamr1720]

so much ai-morph animations coming out! most of it gives off a "fever dream" vibe.. wild

[@Roamr1720]

PS, babies are creepy!!! lol

[@francolli]

@@Roamr1720 The children are always a gripping aspect to any weird animation! I was thinking of doing one based on 'Village of the damned' the creepy 1960s version. (again with the creepy kids)

[@Roamr1720]

@@francolli Sounds great! I'm looking forward to whatever you can dream up!

[@edsonnavarrus7379]

With horror you discover that Giger is an Elohim and he created the AI to put us in his universe

[@francolli]

Its the closest we will ever get to the contents of his mind. How the guy ever slept at night is anyone's guess

[@gizzykatkat9687]

I LOVE this!

[@francolli]

Really strange isn't it. A similar one is behind door 3 in the deforum mansion animation I did a couple of weeks ago

[@synthem9389]

beautiful

[@francolli]

Glad you like it. Giger has been burned into my brain since the 70s

[@vasari9198]

I love this.

[@francolli]

Creepy and weird in a captivating way, glad you like it. there is another hidden Giger vid in the Deforum Mansion animation behind one of the doors in there.

[@vasari9198]

@@francolli I just watched the hidden Giger video and it was breathtaking. Your work is incredible.

[@vasari9198]

Watched this one again and I’ve moved from loving it to being unhealthily obsessed. 🙂

[@JulieBeaver-lr9xc]

Beautiful.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@francolli]

Thank you! 😊

[@reddoglavrador]

wow speechless 😶

[@francolli]

I don't know which is weirder, Giger or Deforum. I have very little understanding of Giger's mindset and probably have less understanding of what Deforum will do, even when I give it instructions, its that unpredictable. It has more control than I do, lol!

[@MarcusHardyDJDirtyOne]

Beautiful ❤❤❤ ❤🤜🤛🤝

[@francolli]

Giger stuff is always interesting. Kinda burns into your brain after a while

[@MarcusHardyDJDirtyOne]

@@francolli 10000% Mos def! The Necronomicon from him is mindblowing. Remember looking at that when I was 12 or 13. His style is unmatched.

[@francolli]

@@MarcusHardyDJDirtyOne He came onto my radar screen around 1974 with the Carpenter movie Dark Star, really dark humour with a spaceship of slob misfits chasing an alien around. Dark, funny and bleak and depressing in parts. Sgt Pinback (one of the crew) went from that to Alien (Dan O'Bannon). It was a natural precursor movie for Alien. A lot of the gags carried over, Sgt Boiler sat in the bunk room stabbing his knife between his fingers on the table which later appeared in Alien with Bishop doing the same thing. It was an inspired movie, low budget but you can see the blueprint ideas

[@MarcusHardyDJDirtyOne]

@francolli oh yes I'm aware of Dark Star. I always loved hearing Dan o Bannon just talk about the whole "getting the story out" bit. I feel like he's underrated to some degree. I love that he directed "Return of the Living Dead", my fav zombie movie! But Gigers designs/art, with frigging Mead for ship design, and the whole of Alien inspired so much for scifi horror. Love it!!! 🍻

[@SACHSENBERG29]

素晴らしいけど、もう少しゆっくりだとさらに良かったかも😸💦

[@francolli]

すでにアップロードしていて、閲覧数が多かったので変更したくありませんでした。これについては私も同意見ですが、私は Deforum のゆっくりとしたアニメーションが大好きです。チャンネルを開設してから、いくつかの新しいツールを手に入れました。これまでに使用してきた新しいプリセットを表示するためだけに、もっと遅いツールを実行するつもりです:)

[@dye5915]

Ive never seen Anything like it! 😮

[@francolli]

Disturbing isn't it. Giger mixed with Deforum was always gonna end in some nightmare fuel that's for sure