Here’s an anim­a­tion I worked on last year with the lovely Chloe Tak. It’s a two week exer­cise made with paper cutouts and cap­tured frame by frame using a cam­corder fixed over a lightbox.

At first we tried to come up with a coher­ent story, but decided shortly after that it’d be fun instead to just do a bunch of exer­cises, con­sid­er­ing this was our first time anim­at­ing stuff. We aimed to have roughly 20 scenes fired off in rapid suc­ces­sion and ended up basing the rythm on Fifty Four Fifty by The Bran Flakes. I thought the song would be per­fect for this, since it’s short, upbeat and has an awe­some voice over at the begin­ning and end.

The title wasn’t inten­ded to have any mean­ing, since the work itself had none. How­ever, one of the con­tenders was King Krispy and the Corn Cob­bers. Can’t remem­ber what that was about, but I still like the sound of it.

Also, after the anim­a­tion was fin­ished we had ourselves a size­able col­lec­tion of paper cutouts, which we felt would’ve been a waste if they were just thrown away. So I made a poster to accom­pany the anim­a­tion. Hope you like them!

Oh and again we do not own the song. If you liked the music, please do go check out The Bran Flakes at

www.thebranflakes.com