Computer Animation Arts

With all the fascinating character work-up stuff populating the blogs at the moment, I thought I'd showcase the work of 'Alastair' - otherwise known as Baron Hans H enning Voigt.   It's quirky, macabre, sinuous and a bit menacing somehow... "An artist, composer, dancer, mime, poet, singer and translator, Alastair was a fascinating and elusive personality, and perhaps best known as a gifted illustrator of the fin-de-siecle period. Officially born of German nobility in 1887 to the family of Von Voigt, and later mysteriously acquiring the title of Baron, Hans Henning Voigt was an enigma. He claimed to be a changeling…the spawn of an illegitimate union between a hot headed Bavarian prince and a pretty Irish lass…  Although clearly influenced by the sinister, serpentine style of Aubrey Beardsley , with echoes of the deliciously unhinged work of Harry Clarke , and a bit of the occult grotesquery of Austin Osman Spare’s art ...