"The life of a scarecrow changes when he decides to become friends with the birds"
This short film has been internationally acclaimed and received numerous awards since its premiere (including a pre selection to the Oscars)
This is not the final cut that was released, voices and music are not the final versions.
I was in charge of the creation and design of the characters and backgrounds, the storyboarding, the animation directing and the editing.
It was made mixing 2D backgrounds with 3D modeling into a false 3D environment in After Effects."
I love the collective aesthetic of these videos that play with silhouettes, paper & wood, and colour palettes that borrow from Dutch masters & Victorian illustration. To me these four videos want to cluster together
Cirque du Freak
http://motionographer.com/theater/yuco-cirque-du-freak-titles/
A Series of Unfortunate Events - end credits:
A Short Love Story in Stop Motion
When I am King
beautiful stop-motion video made with wood cuts
This complex paper model exists online in the form of a pattern that can be downloaded for free and built anywhere, by anyone who has a printer, a few basic office supplies, and patience. I really like papercraft – I’ve already written here about my love for simpler, less work-intensive papercraft as distributed art projects.
Excerpt:
"Delivering Physical Objects Digitally
Of course, detailed patterns for real objects can be transmitted over the Internet, and we’ve been doing that for a while.
This gives us an idea of one way we might be able to broadcast physical objects to deliver a narrative through them. There is the issue, however, of skill. Putting together advanced papercraft like this one is very much like traditional model building, and not every potential player will necessarily have the skill or the inclination to build a complex model."
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