I put so much extra effort into dividing up the animation from the background so i could upload a simple 1-color file for the foreground that was just 50kb. but i forgot that at some point i used a digital airbrush and also had one layer on reduced transparency. animated gifs only allow for full alpha or zero and no soft gradients. at least not the way i wanted to use it. in short - sorry for the 1mb file size.
This is the kind of picture i really looked forward to drawing. this one includes visual quotes from that dreadful image raft of the meduse. Incredible story of a dreadful cannibalistic ship wreck. I am always fascinated by stories in which people are stripped of resources - how thin the layer between civilized and sabretooth tiger. hence: twisted.