4 posts tagged “animation”
A stunning animation by Aleksandr Petrov - a fable based on slavic mythology. A Rusalka is a restless spirit taking the form of a water nymph or succubus. (10 minute Google clip)
"Thirty-six characters from different stages of life - representations of different times - interact in one room, moving in loops, observed by a static camera. I had to draw and paint about 16.000 cell-mattes, and make several hundred thousand exposures on an optical printer. It took a full seven months, sixteen hours per day, to make the piece. The miracle is that the negative got through the process with only minor damage, and I made less than one hundred mathematical mistakes out of several hundred thousand possibilities." [more]
