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Hey @coyohti , and anyone trying to escape the box, or see what’s in the box
This is a tough challenge, for the mind as much as the modeling.
I have been playing with the use of eyes,
The eyes do more than see,
Eyes can express emotion.
a still image of a traditional Halloween scream
what does this mean?
For me, it means fear, horror, scary, shock etc.
It was suggested, ‘screams of joy’, but this doesn’t fit the Halloween theme.
artistically represent the idea of a scream
What is a scream?
According to Google,
‘A long, loud, piercing cry or cries expressing extreme emotion or pain’.
So, how do we represent this in an artistic way?
For me, I would look into ideas ‘expressing extreme emotion or pain’.
I’d encourage you to NOT think literally
Take the Monsters Inc. scream extractor image above, a fun concept in collecting screams.
From disney.fandom.com ,
The Scream Extractor is, as the name implies, a scream extracting machine which has the intent of collecting screams much better than even scarers. It has 15 Scream Cannisters. Randall Boggs was going to kidnap Boo to test it and see if it will collect screams exactly as he expected it to, then work with Waternoose to kidnap hundreds of children to extract their screams in order to stop the energy crisis in Monstropolis and bring Monsters Inc. back on top. It’s demonstrated that it extracts the victim’s breath along with their screams, which can potentially suffocate the victims, even monsters.
The Melvin image is a simple movie poster design, with the word ‘scream’.
The more I think on this, the more thoughts are created in my mind.
An example of my thoughts on this…
Melvin, Eats Sheep, right?
Or Lambs,
The Lambs are Screaming in Fear,
Then…..
Silence….
Silence of the Lambs.
The opposite of a loud scream, but you get where I am going with this….
“The moment before the screaming begins”. Does this fit?
Yes!
If you can capture the moment, or the expression, or the spine tingling feeling of the scream.