Sand Animation

It was interesting seeing this sand animation, I thought I saw it before, but I have only seen stop motion this was different. It’s hard for me to imagine loosing every single picture after it’s done, because with hand drawn animation you have the sketches and such, and in digital you have the characters, and backgrounds. All of it is there and you can go back and touch it, hold it, at the end of the day the only thing that the artist has left with the sand animation is the film itself and the grains of sand used to make it. Somehow to me that makes the film more special because it is all you have, aside from the tools used to create the work. I can’t imagine doing all that work and not being able to hold it or at least mess with it on a computer. The animation was hard to get used to but the movements were gorgeous especially the way the birds moved, they often looked very believable. I would be interested to know some more artists that use this method of animation, because though usually simple from what I saw they look quite fantastic, and capture attention quickly.

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