Folded paper animation out of books

John Martz | December 15th, 2009

I cannot even begin to fathom how long this took. Created for the New Zealand Book Council by Andersen M Studio, this animated spot really does seem, literally and figuratively, to capture the act of using the imagination to turn the printed page into imagery.

It makes a fine companion piece to Scottish animator Eleanor Stewart’s Howdown from Rodeo, which also turns a book’s pages (here, a musical score) into cut-out stop motion.

It also reminds me of the delicate paper-folding art of Peter Callesen.

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  • danielborovi
  • danielborovi
    Amazing. It reminds me of the works of Yuken Teruya, especially his "Paper Forest", "Lost and Found" and "Giving Tree" projects.
  • Must be computer animated, cannot image anybody hand animating cut out letters walking away over the page at the end...
    Apparently the makers claim otherwise: "The animation took 8 months to complete and is 100% handmade with a good old 10A scalpel blade.”
    See http://www.cartoonbrew.com/shorts/going-west-by-andersen-m-studio.html
  • !Amazing job! Sound is great too.
  • amped
    Good God! That was mesmerizing and intense! I can't imagine the amount of time taken to make that if it was all by hand. I mean, the DETAIL, and it's all so small. An amazing animation indeed!
  • It is interesting- Like to know how long did it take with how many people?
  • This looks amazing! I wonder if it's actual paper or computer generated. Making that in stop-motion should took about hmmm... forever. But it looks like paper! Ahhhhhh! But that's insane! I don't even want to keep thinking about it, I'll probably go insane myself.

    Either way the final result is gorgeous!
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