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Animation - Crocodile Merge from Codex Seraphinianus

Added 2017-11-08 08:14:54 +0000 UTC

Apparently the embedded vid isn 't working for everyone so you can download it directly here:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Zs7N38NegCa78tU0hglLMqZrOd3--jJh/view?usp=drivesdk

So I decided to try my hand at animating something random, and Luigi Seraphini's series of panels depicting a copulating couple merging into an crocodile seemed perfectly set for it.

For those who don't know, the panels are from a book called "Codex Seraphinianus" which depicts surrealist and bizarre scenes such as this one. The original art belongs to Seraphini who first published the unusual work in 1981. I simply animated it. In any case, the book is also written in a cryptic script that appears to be gibberish. Originally thought to be asemic and meaningless, people have discovered that the text is actually using a constructed language from an alphabetical cipher. Now there are hypothesized attempts at translation.

You can see the original crocodile sequence here:
http://xaharts.org/arts/i/crocodile_sex_codex.jpg