Paper Dreams

© 2010 Kenneth Onulak


This is my Junior Degree Project that I worked on over the Spring semester at RISD.

I wanted the animation to have a dream like quality exploring the reality and space in which the dream exists and felt that a cutout technique fit this idea. Color was another consideration that I built into the design of the animation to help enhance the dreamlike qualities of the film.

Most of the animation is hand drawn and composited into the final film to give it a hand made appearance. Once I had the animation drawn, I was able to bring it into Adobe After Effects to create the cutout look. To bring the final look of the film together, I made a frame and colored backings for it, which I hung on the wall and photographed. The images were composited together to create the wall of frames that the animation existed in.

For the sound I partnered with a student from the Berklee School of Music in Boston named John Nolan. He was able to take my thoughts and ideas for the sound and applied his own artistic signature to them to create a really beautiful final soundtrack for the film.

All of this came together over a 12 week period to create this final film. Feel free to comment and enjoy!

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[MichalMalewicz]

This is amazing! Can I post an embed on my design blog?

Cheers!