The
making-of

Keys to My Heart

A film about
twelve drawings.This page lives through a hundred years of animation.Scroll ↓

Black-and-white opening title card of the film, naming Claudia

Before anything moved, there was a picture.

A gallery still, frozen, with no principles at all. The star on her hair is the only thing that will survive every era. Follow it.

Pencil drawing of Claudia on animation paper

Draw me twelve, and I’m alive.

Graphite, peg holes and blue construction lines. Her first blink and her first breath.

Now showing

I squash
when I land

Black ink and the rhythm of a silent short. Straight ahead, pose to pose, timing, squash and stretch, exaggeration.

Drawing sheet: six pencil drawings of Claudia crouching, stretching into a jump and squashing as she lands
Film frame: Claudia in a red top and blue skirt on a checkered stage

Now watch me move like a dream

Paint on acetate. Anticipation, staging, arcs.

Slow in.
Slow out.

Flat shapes, poster colour, British mod tailoring.

Film frame: Claudia in a geometric yellow, teal and orange mod dress
Film frame: Claudia in a painted orchard at golden hour

My hair keeps moving after

Painted feature light. Follow through, secondary action.

Film frame: ink Claudia and 3D Claudia dancing together in an animator’s studio at night

Eleven of twelve.

Volume, light, a studio at night. Solid drawing.

12/12

Twelve out of twelve.

Keys by humans. In-betweens by agents.

How it was made, start to finish → Agents: read the Markdown

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