I confess I´m not a regular of social networks, but Steemit keep my attention in this year´s february when my friend @miguelguacamaya2 told me about the fascinant cryptouniverse that promotes not only the generation of a new type of economy related with the criptocurrency and blockchain´s technology, but also promotes values with I sympathize like collective work and mutual support. That is why I started to explore this new world. Later, another brother @juampablotoledo told me about Slothicorn, a steemit´s community that support and stimulate artistic creation and also works as an exchange plattform between artists with solid proposals and domain of tecniques.

I want to take part in Slothicorn because I share with this community the idea that we the artists deserves to live from our works, in an environment of cordiality and talent, without the need of waste our creative energy in boring labor that distract us from what really is our passion.

"Alegrías Dolorosas" (Painful Joys) is a term that I remember have been seen in a Psichology book when I was a kid. It refers to a neurosis that provokes in those who suffer it contradictory and involuntaries answers in moments of profound sadness and pain. Like, for example, laughing a lot in the middle of suffering for the lost of a beloved person.

"Painful Joys" is one of my recently works. It belongs to a series of animations entitled "Nuestra Alegre Juventud" (Our Joyful Youth - like the title of an old song from the spanish punk rock band "La Polla Records") old collages converted to animations.

The original collage.


As I said before, animation is a tool that I´ve been using a lot in the last times, and for me, the Gif animations and the collages have a common characteristic: Both tell micro-stories. That is the reason of my growing interest in the Gif as an animation format: because is infinite, dynamic and direct.

For this proposal, I digitalized the collage, then edited in Photoshop to separate the elements in layers, and animated all with After Effects to finally convert all the result in a Gif movie with an external application.

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I´m very excited to can share my visions and creations with all the Slothicorn Community,
I hope have this opportunity!

Health, strength and infinite intelligence!