Index Card Animation

Films by Steven Vander Meer

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MFL FAQ

How many drawings are there in the film?
6017. There are 365 daily drawings plus 12 monthly titles, so 377 "key" drawings. Then there are 15 "tween" drawings in-between each of the keys.
How long did the film take to make?
About two years. I made the first daily drawing on January 1, 2007. But it wasn't until around October of that year that I began doing the morphs in-between. Soon after than I settled into a schedule of about one morph per day.
How long did it take to do each morph?
Anywhere from a couple hours to all day long, depending on the complexity of the two drawings being connected.

 

What's with all the naked people?
As an artist I am involved with several life drawing groups that meet on a weekly basis. If you don't know, life drawing is practice for artists, the human models are usually nude. When I was doing the daily drawings I did many of them in the life drawing group.
What is your next project?
"Salmon Deadly Sins". A four minute film on salmon colored index cards. Sockeye salmon, bizarre anagrams, and the seven deadly sins.