David Bowie dead: Birmingham artist's incredible animated tribute goes viral
An amazing animated David Bowie tribute created by a Birmingham-based artist has gone viral in the wake of the music legend's death.
The animation shows the evolution of Bowie through 29 different illustrations and has become one of the most widely shared tributes on social media since news of the musician's death broke this morning.
Titled 'Time May change Me', the GIF was created by 23-year-old artist Helen Green to celebrate Bowie's birthday in 2015.
It shows Bowie's head turning left to right with 29 strikingly different images of the Ziggy Stardust creator from 1964 through to 2014.
The animated GIF, shown in Helen Green's original tweet:
Each image began as a pencil drawing before being coloured digitally and animated in Photoshop. It took Ms Green 35 hours to put the animation together.
Speaking about the creation last year, Ms Green said: "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!"
The 23-year-old today tweeted that she was struggling to come to terms with the news of Bowie's death, after just last week revealing new illustrated tributes to the singer.
Many prominent users have shared the GIF on Twitter, including TV presenter Kate Thornton and veteran DJ Rob da Bank.
You can view the different illustrations individually on Miss Green's Website.
