Had an assignment recently to make a 24-frame flipbook, so I took it as an opportunity to start pushing a more surreal style moving forward.

I wanted to work with the theme of "bad luck", and worked with the bizarre definition of that being "an unfortunate, unforeseen circumstance on the host's part". In the animation, the cuttlefish (an animal that can camouflage...'unforeseen') gets stabbed and yanked upwards (unfortunate, I'd say) by a nail (nails often are covered in bacteria, working the 'host' in there). The paint, to be perfectly blunt, is so the animation loops, since it was originally meant to be a flipbook.

The biggest challenge was definitely getting a relatively complicated series of movements working in such a short number of frames, so let me know if it worked out! If not, I'll definitely exercise a little more restraint in these sorts of things moving forward.