Creative control is a double-edged exacto blade. Mikey Please‘s collaboration with Dan Ojari (out in full length) is both brutal and beautiful in its microcosmic madness. This refined and pioneering vignette is about an artist going insane in miniature as she battles with a much vaster rocky terrain of inner criticism and drive. Brilliance peppered with masochism may be a curse, but this film is certainly a blessing. Meteoric talents Please and Ojari have recently launched an animation studio together, almost too much radioctive radiance for one building. Read a nice Q & A with Please by Motionographer and scroll down for time lapse making-of and lighting technique videos.


Behind the scenes on lighting:
Time lapse:

Credits:
Produced by – BLINK INDUSTRIES / HORNET FILMS
Filmed at – CLAPHAM ROAD STUDIOS
Executive Producers – PETER MEDLOCK / MICHAEL FEDER / BART YATES / MIKEY PLEASE
Produced by – JAN STEBBINS/ JAMES STEVENSON BRETTON / MIKEY PLEASE
Animated & Photographed by – MIKEY PLEASE / DAN OJARI
With animation from – TIM ALLEN / STEVEN WARNE
Music Composed by – BEN PLEASE / JOOLS SCOTT / BETHANY PORTER
Sound Design – ADAM JANOTA BZOWSKI
Voices – JOSIE LONG / JAMES STEVENSON BRETTON / THEODORA VAN DER BEEK / JOSEPHINE GALLAGHER
Model Makers
 – JEN NEWMAN / NADIA OH / KATY BEVERAGE / DAN OJARI / 
MIKEY PLEASE / CARMEN MASON / ANNA GINSBERG / LAURA BATEMAN
Puppets
 – MIKEY PLEASE / LIZZY DALTON / JEN NEWMAN
Set Design – 
NADIA OH / MIKEY PLEASE / JEN NEWMAN / DAN OJARI
Supervising DOP – 
MATTHEW DAY
Studio Manager – 
ELIZABETH DAY
Incidental Lighting
 – MAX HALSTEAD
Technical Support
 – TOBY GOODYEAR
Musicians
 – ANDREW DOUGLAS FORBES / CATHERINE HURLEY
EMMA HOOPER / BENEDICT PLEASE
BETHANY PORTER / JOOLS SCOTT 
IAN VORLEY / JAMES WATTS
Soloists
 – AMADOU DIAGNE / MARIA DANISHVAR BROWN
Recording Engineers – 
BEN PLEASE / JACK SEDGWICK
Mixed by
 SIMON HARRIS @ OFFSET AUDIO
Post Production 
- YUSSEF COLE / ELISA CIOCCA / JON GALLAGHER 
MARTY GEREN / RACHEl KWAK / MICHAEL LUZZI / 
JOEY McCORMICK / MIKEY PLEASE / LEANDRO SANTINI / TED WIGGIN
Grader 
RACHEL RARDIN
Developed at the JAPIC RESIDENCY with the JAPANESE MINISTRY FOR CULTRAL AFFAIRS
Thanks to: 
CAROLINE WATERLOW / DAN CHESTER / DAVE PROSSER / KEV HARWOOD / 
GREG HALAMA / SANG JIN BAE / JACK ROBINSON / DITOGEAR

Blog written by Vera Long