This short film is my animated autobiography. I spend most of my life swearing at the computer because it's crashed or isn't working. Here, well known digital symbols are turned into something analogue and playful. The result is an homage to all the lost time we collectively spend in digital limbo in the hopes of sudden development on our screen.
I read somewhere that on average humans spend 4 years of their lives with waiting.
To me it feels like way more. This film is an abstraction and playful conversion of all the time I spend waiting in my most used applications. The plan was to take something very digital, boring and transport it into the analogue world. Playful, silly, yet sophisticated and meticulous, human, handcrafted.
To me it feels like way more. This film is an abstraction and playful conversion of all the time I spend waiting in my most used applications. The plan was to take something very digital, boring and transport it into the analogue world. Playful, silly, yet sophisticated and meticulous, human, handcrafted.
Each one of the vignettes has an application or a Loading Screen, that I use every day, as a base. I am going to spoil the following four favourites of mine; the rest is up for you to guess. Quicktime, Google Chrome, Youtube, Twitter.
I rather wanted to cut my fingers and have paint all over me a couple of times a day for a change than stare at a loading bar. This is why I transitioned back to stop motion for this film and simultaneously made that its very concept.
Even though every vignettes idea differs greatly from the others the goal was to create a consistent wonderland; a colorful and carefully art directed reality. Incorporating and combining simplified diversity, visual trickery, surrealism, Bauhaus and Wes Anderson infused modern graphic design.
Even though every vignettes idea differs greatly from the others the goal was to create a consistent wonderland; a colorful and carefully art directed reality. Incorporating and combining simplified diversity, visual trickery, surrealism, Bauhaus and Wes Anderson infused modern graphic design.
