Bookworm
Not To Scale NY & director Lucinda Schreiber craft beautiful stop-motion spots for Target and Mythology!
Tasked with creating a campaign to support a new children’s product line from illustrator Christian Robinson for Target and bring these designs to life in a paper craft collage style, Lucinda imbued these spot with charm and wonder, beautifully and seamlessly animated in camera.
Filmed at the Not To Scale New York studio, each spot is focused on a range of Christian Robinson’s inspired Target products.
The spots begin with a child in a stop-motion animated world and end with a live action version of the kid playing in their bedroom. Conceptually, everything created needed to reflect the imaginative spaces children inhabit and also stylistically reflect the real kids and products whilst acting as entryways into Christian’s creative world. Each animation aimed at being magical and enchanting while at the same time telling a unique story in a very short space of time.
Lucinda created an aesthetic that was strongly informed by Christian’s art, who works by painting sheets of paper, then cutting and collaging these together. She created digital versions and then recreated each frame using hand painted paper and a vector cutter. These frames were then shot in sequence, in camera to create the final animation.
Lucinda normally animates her own illustrations so it was uniquely challenging to work in someone else’s style. The campaign compliments her love of continuous ‘no cuts’ style animation, which is a consistent element in much of her work. She also purposefully chose to replace each individual frame shot – rather than creating characters and elements that are moved under camera over time. The resulting rhythm that comes from the ever-changing textures is an aesthetic she likes to revisit in many of her stop motion projects.
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