I wanted to try turning an illustration into an animated clip in Blender.

Snake is just a single textured plane that I animated by sculpting a 'breathe in' blendshape. I did some fun cheats for lighting and the animated breath vapor. Modelled some 3d shapes from background layers extracted from the original drawing.

Composited with Natron.

Hopefully you can hear the theme tune in your mind :D

And hopefully it inspires you to play MGS again!