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'Pastel Hell'

A Short Film Directed by Hugo Vadasz

Puppet made by Mikayla Hotton

Stop-Motion Animation by Lucy Davidson

2022 - Shot at Big House Art

Premiered at St Kilda Film Festival 2023

Watch my animation from 00:00 - 00:35

 

I collaborated with the director, puppet designer and puppet builder to construct the fish lady. She was built with consideration to the scale of the set, making her skin a shiny fish texture and having internal wire structures to allow the mouth to open & close.
 

This was my first professional experience of animating a stop-motion puppet with physical performance and dialogue lip-sync. We shot the puppet in front of the live action set background, creating a forced perspective illusion.

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