Gallery: These Mutant-Baby GIFs Are Like Nightmares on Repeat
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Oswra is a collection of GIFs by self-taught animator Hayden Zezula. Each one shows a bunch of baby parts rearranged into some sort of endlessly looping abomination.
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This one's kinda like a anemone, just with legs instead of tentacles.
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Like a single scoop ice cream cone. Except IT'S A BUNCH OF CHURNING BABY PARTS.
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They're equal parts unsettling and mesmerizing, a combination Zezula was very much going for.
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"The focus is to blend eerie images with visually pleasing loops to keep people interested and uncomfortable at the same time," he says.
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Recently, Zezula's turned his attention to game design.
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"I use similar cloning techniques with geometric objects on a regular basis and wanted to try it on something new."
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Don't worry, his first title is a "first-person art exploration game." Phew.
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