BEST ON TUBE

The best animators We’ve met are intensely driven people . . . often to the edge of sanity (which is what gives the greatest work its wacky wonder). Via Vimeo, here is a Russian short film in which each frame is a long exposure. Roughly 40 seconds. If it was done at 30 frames per second (it probably wasn’t), that would be 1200 frames. Assume half that — 600 frames — each one mapped out, storyboarded, tested, shot. If we were told that each frame took one hour, we would not be surprised. It could have been more. (Then again, it might well have been less.)