Video: Animatus: what cartoons are made of. Cartoon Hero Skeletons by Hyungkoo Lee
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
No matter how trite it may sound, we all come from childhood: we read the same fairy tales, and watched the same cartoons as our peers … And none of us passed through childhood without fascinating cartoons from the Walt Disney studio. Is this why artists and sculptors are so fond of using images and plots familiar from childhood in their work? So, recently we wrote about the Disney for Adults project, and today, with the help of a Korean author Hyungkoo Lee, let's look inside the cartoon characters and find out what the cartoons are based on. Project Animatuspresented by this talented Korean makes us wonder what Bugs Bunny and Donald Duck would look like, Uncle Scrooge and his nephews Willie, Billy and Dilly, Tom the cat chasing Jerry mouse, trying to catch Tweety's canary cat Sylvester, Coyote and his leggy victim, and many other characters in hundreds of years, if suddenly their remains were unearthed by archaeologists. Yes, yes, the author shows us a number of skeletons belonging to our favorite heroes, moreover, "frozen" in the most natural position for them: in flight, chase, escape, or standing, proudly thrusting out his chest …
But despite the fact that the skeletons of the cartoons look very natural, in the process of creating the project, not a single living or fictional creature was harmed. For his installations, the author uses aluminum, springs, rubber, oil paint and other materials, but certainly not bones. However, what kind of bones can be invented by Disney animals and birds?
Pictures from anatomy textbooks are hung on the walls of Hyungko Lee's studio: the author tries to study the subject as thoroughly as possible in order to correctly build and shape animal bones so that they look as natural as possible, in order to give them as much similarity as possible with the original. And he succeeds, because many people are even afraid to touch the skull - what if this is a real "living" skull? But remember that even after a crushing blow or a grandiose earthquake, the cartoons remain alive, and continue to run around the screens as if nothing had happened, and all fears will instantly evaporate.
You can get acquainted with the Animatus project on Hyungkoo Lee's personal website.
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