Do Do Animation Short

Photoshop animation to generate interest in David Bowie’s song Do Do from the Diamond Dogs album. Diamond Dogs is a concept album by David Bowie, originally released in 1974 on RCA Records. Thematically, it was a marriage of the novel Nineteen Eighty-four by George Orwell and Bowie’s own glam rock vision of a post-apocalyptic world. Diamond Dogs has been called glam by numbers, the definition of what a glam punk album should be—campy, sci-fi with beautiful, crunchy guitar riffs. The stage show for the album was heavily influenced by German Expressionism film in particular, Wiene’s 1919 film, Cabinet of Docotor Caligari.

The imagery was found on the web and chewed up in Photoshop and layered into compositions that express my interpretation of Bowie’s glam rock vision of a glitter-clad, post-apocalyptic world—the decaying Hunger City.

The lyrics of the intro track Future Legend, describes a scene like that of a post-nuked New York City as a frightening, disturbing, sickening, disgusting, grandiose scene of human on human destruction:

Fleas the size of rats sucked on rats the size of cats. And ten thousand peoploids split into small tribes. Coverting the highest of the sterile skyscrapers. Like packs of dogs assaulting the glass fronts of Love- Me Avenue. Ripping and rewrapping mink and shiny silver fox, now legwarmers. Family badge of sapphire and cracked emerald. Any day now. The Year of the Diamond Dogs.

These are some stills from the video animation short and concepting sketches: