Two Balloons

A glimpse at how the ship's interior set was reconfigured (and digitally reassembled) to allow the animator(s) to do their work within a miniature space, and how compositing was used to combine various analog elements into a single image. Learn more at http://twoballoons.film

http://twoballoons.film The wave table constructed for Two Balloons measured 20ft in length/depth, 17ft in width, and the surface stood about 3.5ft high. It was engineered and constructed by Javan Ivey, an animator who has amazing problem solving skills. Our Art Director, Kathleen Chamberlin, found a way to force perspective using various plastic materials and a specialized painting technique while leading a team tasked with painting the 340 square feet of ocean surface. The push-rod and line mechanisms were then incrementally rotated frame-by-frame with a step motor. Director of Photography, Reijean Heringlake, lit and photographed the scenes. VFX supervisor, Adam C. Sager, tiled the footage to complete the ocean.

shots 55 & 56. Music courtesy of Oskar Schuster. Two Balloons is a stop-motion short produced in Portland, OR. http://twoballoons.film

This featurette shows an example of how real world performance was referenced throughout the creation of the 2017 stop motion short—Two Balloons. Learn more at http://twoballoons.film

There was no calm before animating and assembling this storm. Two Balloons is a stop-motion short produced in Portland, OR. http://twoballoons.

A breakdown of how shot 67 was pieced together using digital compositing for the 2017 stopmotion short—Two Balloons. Learn more at http://twoballoons.film