This is a composite I stitched together from 12 screenshots taken from episode 5 of Penguindrum. I pretty much completely rewrote the tool I used for my last composite to make this. My old program could only handle solving two images; the new version solves a graph of correspondences one pair at a time to attach as many images as it can to a pinned starting image. I spent all weekend writing this specific editor, and much of my free time over the last couple weeks has gone into my broader art tool project.

I haven’t done much in the way of artistically changing the piece. Other than the final cropping (which I did in the GIMP), it’s as true to the imagery from episode 5 as I could get it. Notably though, the lower portion of the image and the upper portion of the image (with the reapers) are not from one continuous shot in the episode; part of my motivation for stitching this was that I wanted to see how it all looked when put together. I was surprised to find that the top portion with the reapers was actually scaled differently than the lower portion. I’ve cropped it for the main post, but if you’d like to see what it looks like without the final crop, you can see that image here.

The “lovers” are clearly a parody of The Kiss by Klimt – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kiss_(Klimt) – but I have no idea what the heck is going on with the cherubs in the middle…