Cyriak



Cyriak Harris, or simply "cyriak", is an animator from the U.K. who makes videos which are both incredibly beautiful and bizarre.

He and his works have been featured in various other media, such as [adultswim] and the BBC Southeast Today.

His YouTube channel--which he primarily produces his stuff from--can be found here. Myspace music profile can be found here, regular music profile here.

Tropes to apply to Cyriak, himself:

 * Cloudcuckoolander
 * Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant
 * Reclusive Artist: In his BBC Southeast Today spot it was stated that he has little time for a social life with all his work being done.

Tropes to apply to Cyriak's works:

 * Acid Trip Dimension: "Welcome to Kitty City," featuring larvae cats, giant mash-up cats, mechanical cat-tanks, cat-trains, all of which are ever-mutating.
 * Alien Geometries: In "cyriak's animation mix" a cow is walking... Never mind, too hard to explain.
 * Anthropomorphic Food: "Festive Greetings from Cyriak" features a parsnip that looks like an obese woman's hips and legs. Worse, it's pumping out parsnip larvae!!!
 * Body Horror: Some clips milk it for all its worth.
 * Book Ends: "cyriak's animation mix" begins and ends with the same, short, looped-animation sequence.
 * Cute Is Evil: "Meow Mix" features cats meowing menacingly in Hell.
 * "MEOW" is a gory, ultra-violent video about zombie cats taking over a city.
 * Eldritch Abomination: Everything.
 * Eldritch Location: Everywhere.
 * Everything's Better with Cows: And cows. And cows. Cows all way down. Did I mentioned cows?
 * Eyes Do Not Belong There: The creatures in "Something," which look like 1950s people with excess eyes and mouths.
 * Faux Symbolism: Wait, might a Jesus cop and Cathedral and a Mosque kicking each others' asses actually mean something? Nah!
 * Reality Warper: The little boy in "Boogie Maths" warps reality with his dancing, causing his body to distort and demonic clones of himself to emerge out of his mouth. Eventually, everyone melts.
 * Recurring Element:
 * Cats, kittens. All of the sort.
 * Cows. Don't even get us started on the cows!
 * Spiders Are Scary: "Cobwebs."
 * Surreal Horror/ Surreal Humor
 * Those Two Guys: In "My territory", there are two "blokes" that appear several times that are the artists behind the music: Grand Popo Football Club.
 * When Nettles Attack