“And nothing has changed, Everything has changed”
One of the more inventive Bowie birthday tributes this year was created by illustrator, Helen Green.
Unless you’ve been in hibernation, you’ve no doubt already seen her animated drawings of David Bowie sporting 29 different hairstyles, which she posted on her homepage and her facebook and tumblr pages on Bowie’s birthday.
Since then, it seems the planet has gone crazy for Helen’s Time May Change Me movie, with even the likes of The Guardian picking up on it today.
Helen kindly said a few words for us regarding the project:
“It’s become somewhat of a tradition for me to create something to celebrate David Bowie’s birthday – a little token of appreciation for someone that has inspired me so much over the years. This year I decided to put my inspiration in motion. The result; an animated portrait illustrating Bowie’s evolution and reinvention, from the pre-Bowie 1964 to 2014, with the release of ‘Sue (Or In A Series Of Crime)’.
Each pencil drawing was coloured digitally and animated in Photoshop, and took around 35 hours in total (though much of that time was spent finding references where David was facing in a specific direction). For many of the drawings, I used a reference from a different year, but facing the correct way. For example, the reference for Ashes to Ashes Bowie was his 1976 mugshot, and a sideways-facing ‘Heroes’ Bowie for the drawing of Davie Jones. It was quite a triumph to see all 29 drawings in motion for the first time!”
35 hours?! That’s dedication.
Scroll the images above to see all 29 drawings one by one, and if you haven’t actually seen the animation yet, visit Helen’s home page and view even more of her stunning Bowie portraits.