For the record, no actual light sources were used to produce these images; what you’re looking at here are 2D layers moving around on top of each other. The original image is a circle cut from a photograph of grasses—because I had a feeling they’d give me the speckle and noise I was after. By rotating them in different directions (and cutting sections of them away), I was slowly able to build up the illusion of this rotating, illuminated disc. Then, in the video-editing software, I was able to take this pretend light source, and further pretend it was rotating in three-dimensional space. Agreed, that’s a lot of smoke and mirrors—which I thought was only appropriate, given The Kick-About’s ‘magic lantern’ prompt.
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