When a little girl visits her Grandma's old house, her unsettling surroundings begin to creep into her dreams...
The 7th stop motion animation from enJoy film focuses on the idea of how the sights, sounds and experiences of your environment can affect your subconscious.
Made over the course of ten months this is the most complicated animation we have made to date; utilising three different animation styles layerd on top of each other we effectively had to shoot the film three times! We played around with the idea of using different animation techniques in the same film with Joy, and wanted to take this to the next level. This animation sees claymation, 2D puppetry and hand-drawn animation in the same shot, with each layer animated in stop motion.
We tried a few things we haven't done before... We finally managed to have a free standing armature by using magnets underfoot. We worked in a much larger scale to enable us to put more detail into the set and also allowed us more freedom of movement. The majority of the action is hand drawn and shot in stop motion, something we really enjoyed experimenting with but took a lot of patience.
The edit was the most complex we have attempted yet; and we did this using the new Final Cut Pro X software which we had to re-learn to use! We had 2 layers of green screening, which took a long time to perfect. We also played around with changing the scale and positioning of the 2D puppets, which turned out to be much easier than expected.
It's taken us a long time, but we're very happy with the result and can't wait to show you all. We are hoping that Window will go round a few screenings before we release it online. In the meantime, onto the next animation....
To see a few production stills from Window, head over to our facebook page: facebook.com/enjoyfilm
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