Mother's Day

I had a simple idea of a video of a flower growing and blooming.  When I sat down to start making the objects, I thought it would add something much more interesting if I had suns and moons moving behind the flower to show the passage of time.


The sun/moon was placed on a cardboard cutout, taped onto the blue background, and moved with every frame.  This seemed to work well for the moon, but the sun kept falling down.  The sun also kept falling apart, as my construction wasn't entirely stable.  The actual blooming of the flower is quite quick, but this was because I felt the sun was going to give out at any moment, and the flower was getting too top heavy and kept falling over itself.  I didn't intend on this video to be an all-day shoot, so the quality isn't as good and the film isn't as smooth as it could have been.

After I shot the movie, and edited the frames, I recorded the song.  It came to me in about a minute, and somehow was the exact length of the film and flowed fairly well.

The text at the end is something I just wrote as I was typing in my credits.

I sometimes feel like these films are not made, but just happenings.  I sit down with a vague idea, and animation just happens.  I turn on my keyboard and appropriate music just happens.  I go to type in ending credits and a little text just happens.  It's not to say that creating these films is effortless, it's overall very time consuming and sometimes stressful.  But when it comes to ideas itself, whether it be for the film or music, they just magically happen.