Queenie

Intricately handmade from paper and cardboard, this stop-motion animated tragicomedy follows Danny, a university Geography tutor, as he and his students stray from the syllabus in order to break new academic ground. After managing only to break some homewares, Danny is forced to confront the true nature of his project.

Queenie was premiered at SXSW in 2014 and my business partner and Queenie's director Paul Neason and I won the New Zealand Film Commission special jury prize for Animation.

We animated all paper puppets in front of a green screen and composited them in front of the 3D backgrounds that were shot separately.