Digital Kitchen Seattle just completed this cinematic opener for SIFF. We are so excited to see studios like DK creating fresh, inventive work with Dragon Stop Motion.

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Justin Cone of Motionographer asked Digital Kitchen about their process:

In executing the piece, we created a small set-up in our Seattle studio consisting of two rear-illuminated lightboxes made of 5 panes of glass layered on top of a diffusion layer. Each layer of glass had an element that was either animated frame by frame or was static to create the environment.

For example, a scene might have a layer of diffusion, a painted layer, a layer of characters that we could articulate, and a layer of organic materials, etc. that created the environment. We mounted a Canon Rebel XSi over animation stands, and connected directly to a Mac Pro workstation running the stop-motion software Dragon.

(Although looking at the making-of footage it looks like a Mac Book. Maybe they have two stations?)

Here is a link to the final film.