Originally he was going to only make 1 gif per day for 1 year as a reason to stay creative and keep working during a quiet period. Imagine if da Vinci was into Sasquatches? – James Kerr You would see a scene in one of these paintings and you’d wonder…what the hell is going on. Kerr begun taking out pieces from his own portfolio, animating them and posting them. After he starting exhausting this, he went to the Library of Congress and sourced copyright free images and begun animating those. There is a transition point where he started looking at medieval manuscripts and renaissance paintings. I am trying to create this world where all of these characters exist in art history, but that they can exist outside of the paintings that they are in. – James Kerr No religious iconography is off limits either. sigenot-chewbacca-animation-gif Scanner Internet Archive HTML5 Uploader 1.7. It belongs to the Codices Palatini Germanici, the German-language manuscripts of the Palatina, kept in the Heidelberg University Library since 1816. Now they have the piss taken out of them in an infinite number of ways. This is a late medieval manuscript from the former Bibliotheca Palatina in Heidelberg Germany. These paintings all originally had figures painted with expressions of fierce and cold piousness. It’s infinitely corruptible, portable and viral: that’s why it’s special. The gif is an ideal format for grotesque meme combinations. I also added some castles and the amazing background illustration for the medieval feel. The large amazing knight sequences are made by Alo81 captured from the rpg game Dark Souls. Most of these images come from computer games like Diablo. Suddenly there are countless more ways to reinvent art. On this page you will find cool warrior and knight gif animations. Although Scorpion Dagger proves that anything is ripe for the picking, when you combine medieval art and digital methods of graphics production. Renaissance and Medieval art has been hitherto considered too high brow to be messed with. Haunting, weird, controversial and wickedly funny, these gifs created by James Kerr A.K.A Scorpion Dagger are made from parts of well-known Renaissance paintings along with the flotsam and jetsam of his insane imagination.
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