St Louis Children’s Hospital “Pursue Knowing” from Mixtape Club on Vimeo.

Hornet Inc.‘s directors Mixtape Club and Yves Geleyn combine stop motion, illustration, CG and digital compositing in this playful spot for St. Louis Children’s Hospital. Many of the physical elements were shot and animated with Dragon Stop Motion.

From the official press release:

When Mixtape Club and Yves set about defining the look and feel of the spot, they knew they wanted it to be tactile and playful. The directors individually fabricated elements like the paper lighthouse, origami birds, and a quilted globe. When animated and composited into each scene, these physical models replicated how a child’s imagination creates entire fantastic worlds from familiar surroundings.

Check out more behind the scenes photos at Flickr.