This week we have depicted the hot happenings in Crypto and NFTs in a Halloween style! Wishing everyone a spooky Halloween with our Redlion Gazette 111! 

Twitter has a new master, Elon Musk! This was the biggest news of the week apart from the Reddit NFTs. Elon’s tweet of carrying a sink into the Twitter HQ broke the internet. What and how he will bring about the changes for the social media platform is something we will have to wait and see earnestly. But the latest news when we were creating the artwork was that he had fired several top executives including the CEO on his arrival.

We took to the drawing board with some ideas depicting Elon and the sink. After bouncing some ideas off each other we settled on a concept Dudly shared. The idea was to show the sink and Elon scaring Twitter Executives and making them jump into the sink where they drown and disappear. In the sink-pool, you also see the Reddit NFTs and several other Executives who are barely holding up. On the edge of the sink is Jack Dorsey with a board that reads “Web 5”, which is his latest initiative that received backlash on Twitter. 

And of course, the entire scene would be set in a dark, moody, halloweeny theme. At first, we were going for a painting style but later pivoted to choose the current style and color palette. The first rendition of the artwork involved some textures that we scraped and kept as clean as possible and even limited the palette we used. 

We took to the animation and executed several of the parts using frame by frame, like the water flowing from the tap, the arrival, and drowning of the executive, Elon with his creepiness, the bubbling of the water, Frankie’s eyes, and the rest of the magic that you see are all done in AE.

Even though we were able to wrap up the cover in time, I really wish we had more time to work on these frame-by-frame animations that I really love to do. On the other hand, the time constraints that we work with are also what add that magic to our covers from a larger perspective. The little mishaps, nuances, and errors all cement the fact that we are humans, and that’s beautiful.