A documentary coming up to the eccentric "Cyriak" who has produced numerous bizarre animated movies

A cat is born from a cat and attacks a cat A cat can experience a surreal world by massive occurrenceAnimator that creates a number of distinctive images that make you feel crazy, such as moviesCyriakA documentary pursuing Mr. is published on YouTube.New work released on March 12, 2018As usual it is impossible to understand, but you can catch a glimpse of the movie from where the source of the idea is and how the work is made.

Cyriak | Heroes of Animation with Bing


Cyriak is a freelance animator that is popular enough to watch a movie posted on YouTube over 100 million times. At first I was producing GIF animation, but now it's time to work on popular artist's music videos.


Its sense that makes a difference with the general public is popular.


He is a British musician and also a popular producerBonoboMr. is also one person who uses Cyriak's work on music videos.


Mr. Cyriak is artistic and fashionablefractalSometimes I make images but ....



A grotesque image where the human head grows ... ...


Bonobo also talks about the breadth of its style, "It is unlikely that the same person is making it" because Mr. Bonobo sometimes makes a grotesque image where a spider composed of human body walks around.


If the sheep were running ......


My neck grew, my legs grew from my head ... ...


The picture which can only be said as "crazy" that it acts repeatedly by splitting and proliferating and adding a motion like a mechanical trick.


Closing to the success of the animator Mr. Bri of YouTuber met a red shirt at the game center, Mr. Cyriak.


Mr. Cyriak said he lives in Brighton, England, after acquiring an animation degree in college in 1998. After graduation, I worked in the office, and I heard that he was sending his daily life like playing a favorite video game in his free time while getting tired of his work, without making a work especially at the time. However, I started using Internet and Photoshop, and I came back to the world of animation production.


The inspiration of music used in my work is said to be in the artificial background music of the game at the time.


Beginning with photographing the picture material, taking the work into the computer,Adobe After EffectsWe will process using.


It is a style like a cut-out / animation like a South Park (animation of cutaway).


However, all the work is done in the computer. Mr. Cyriak says "I want to finish the work as quickly as possible" and it seems that digital processing is being done to speed up the work.


He seems to have drawn an illustration by himself before, but he seems to have not drawn since drawing "I do not have to draw it if I take a picture".


As animation is different from illustration "Cyber", Cyriak can develop art by having "movement". When he is producing anime, he seems to feel that "the work starts to move on its own, helping himself to complete."


The project that Cyriak completed for the first time using Adobe After Effects is "BeastEnders", and this work was selected as a finalist at the BBC competition.


BeastEnders is a city in London ... ...


It was a human being repeating a strange mutation.


Subsequently, two people visited the Museum of Natural History "Booth Museum" in Brighton, England


Mr. Cyriak seems to have come to Booth Museum frequently in his teens.


In the Booth Museum you can see a variety of life and death, Mr. Cyriak said that he got a lot of inspiration. Also, these living things can actually become materials of works.


"Animals seem strange deformed people," Cyriak says.


"Animals are" living animated characters "and live in a cheerful and tragic story They eat grass all day in the meadow until they eat them with hairy going trunks It is very interesting. "


Also, Cyriak often makes cats appear in the works.


Animals of malformations are preserved in the museum, "Diversity of nature is far more strange than the animation I make," Cyriak said.


Cyriak says, "It's a strange anime series that I saw when I was a child" that most influenced my work. At that time it was surreal, strange, sometimes nightmare animation was being aired.


Although Cyriak's movie often comes up with living things, I used animals as a material because unlike humans no permission is needed. It seems that it was convenient for earning money by animation production.


Although he seems to have received a lot of pictures from a friend living in a ranch at the time of movie production, Mr. Cyriak says that "what kind of movie is made" could not be said.





It is said that Cyriak himself does not immediately know what kind of logic is in the work.


There are other movies with cattle as the theme, and the cow begins to rhythm with his head ......


A movie that dances or mutates will be played 1 million times in a week when it is released on YouTube. After several weeks it was played 5 million times, it seems that it was doubtful that "Why do you like this all?


The appearance of actually creating animation is as follows. First, shoot a movie with a video camera.


Bing waving both hands beside the face.


Capture images on computer ... ...


Editing work has started. First of all, I watch the movie and I will find out where I can use it as a material.


Here, copy and paste parts of 1 part.


While specifying where to draw the image with the key frame, I will grow another arm in my head. We process this in a more natural way.


Cyriak says that even a couple of years after using Adobe After Effects, the production method is not fixed, and learning continues. Even when shooting, it is not a way of saying "I will make this kind of work because I make this kind of work," instead of saying "Let's take this." Instead of saying, "When I was walking around while I was walking in the camera, I loaded it into my computer when I was boring and said" Let's try it "and it seems to be a form.


Also, the soundFruityloopsIt is said that it is making with software called.


British Independent Record Label "Ninja Tune"When you asked me to make a movie for bonobo," a method called "Montage a plurality of short movies to create a surreal world" was adopted, which was different from the previous one.


From these movies taken in the 1960's ... ...




Create the following image. It is finished that not only strangeness but also beauty can be felt by laying several layers together.



When publishing a movie on YouTube, 90% of the comment section is about Mr. Cyriak and comment about music was 10%.


Block partyWhen there was a music video offer from, it seems that no idea came up even if music and lyrics were sent. The music / videos I've created up until then did not focus on "players", but the block music of past music videos reflected how they played.


Cyriak recycles past band music videos and creates movies that repeat their style of growth and mutation. "There was only an ambiguous idea in the head about what kind of completion it will be".


Mr. Cyriak, who began producing multiple music videos, won several awards.


But the most surprising thing was the explosive hit by uploading to YouTube "a movie whose cow shakes his head according to rock music". This movie is being processed by people in various forms, reproduced in Minecraft ......


Dancing is done according to the movie.


"There is no plan over" What to eat this evening. "I have never thought about what I do in my life, what I want to do next ... I like what I see in my eyes It has been only for the past seven years and this has worked well, I'm just walking down the road in front of me, "Cyriak said.


In addition, you can see how the movie made of Mr. Bing, which was made in the movie, is completed in the last movie.