NIKON

Client: Nikon Asia

Director: Wriggles & Robins

Editor: Simon Lakos

Production Company: FRIEND

Post Production: Electric Theatre Company

Producer: Chanse Fyffe

Executive Producer: Tai Thittichai

Post Production: Alannah Currie

Live Action Animator: Matt Cooper

2D Animation: The Line

“To create the film, we cut 84 life-size looping flying/running animals out of foam board which we then attached with a camera on a dolly to a 20 meter track,” the directors explain. “The final stop motion sequences were created by stopping the rig every 10cm along the track, replacing with the next cut out frame of the animal and taking a photo. In total we took 7,434 photos, using 4 flashes mounted in different positions. By firing different combinations of flashes we could create completely different visual effects.”

“We left the back of each cut-out white, which allowed us to reflect the flash off the back – illuminating the environment whilst also highlighting the cutout edge of each animal,” they explain. “The data in the bottom corner shows the exact camera settings used for each shot.”

This timelapse film reveals more about the techniques used:

https://vimeo.com/165424365