My good friend – and business partner at the time – Paul Neason directed this very beautiful short film and I stop motion animated the characters. Queenie was premiered at SXSW in 2014 and Paul 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.
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Photo credits: National Park Studios