07Stick figure animation
a black-marker stick figure in a flipbook world
Chalkboard drawing animation uses dusty, smudged chalk lines on a green school board.
12A chalk drawing on a dark green school chalkboard that fills the whole frame: the girl, the plants, the pots and the city skyline are all drawn in white and pastel chalk lines with a dusty, grainy texture, the green board showing through every stroke, shading smudged in with a finger, faint ghosts of erased drawings, chalk dust drifting off the lines as they are redrawn slightly each frame. On a rooftop garden above a city in late-afternoon sun, a chalk-line girl with short hair and a yellow chalk T-shirt waters potted tomato plants with a chalk-drawn watering can. Medium-wide shot at her eye level, three-quarter view, the camera holding still. 0–2s: she tips the watering can over a potted plant and a few blue chalk droplets fall onto the leaves. 2–4s: a white chalk paper airplane glides in from screen left and lands on the rim of the pot beside her. 4–6s: she sets the can down, picks up the paper airplane and turns it over in her hands. 6–8s: she looks up and out over the city rooftops and smiles as the wind ruffles the leaves and her hair. Throughout: everything stays dusty chalk on a dark green chalkboard, smudged and faintly ghosted, one continuous take.
A chalk drawing on a dark green school chalkboard that fills the whole frame: the girl, the plants, the pots and the city skyline are all drawn in white and pastel chalk lines with a dusty, grainy texture, the green board showing through every stroke, shading smudged in with a finger, faint ghosts of erased drawings, chalk dust drifting off the lines as they are redrawn slightly each frame.
Say everything is drawn in chalk and the board fills the frame. Take 1 used the chalkboard as a backdrop behind painted figures.
07a black-marker stick figure in a flipbook world
08a white-line stick figure drawn into real footage
09marker drawings sketching themselves on a whiteboard