07Stick figure animation
a black-marker stick figure in a flipbook world
A stick figure in the real world is a white-line drawing added to live-action footage.
08Mixed media: live-action footage of a real rooftop garden, real plants and a real city in natural late-afternoon light, with the girl drawn into it as a simple glowing white-line stick figure with a circle head, dot eyes and a curved smile, her white lines wobbling slightly from frame to frame as she handles the real objects and casts a faint soft shadow. On a rooftop garden above a city in late-afternoon sun, a white-line stick-figure girl waters potted tomato plants with a small tin 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 water splashes onto the leaves. 2–4s: a white 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: the world stays real live-action footage while the girl stays a flat, wobbling white-line stick figure drawn on top, one continuous take.
Mixed media: live-action footage of a real rooftop garden, real plants and a real city in natural late-afternoon light, with the girl drawn into it as a simple glowing white-line stick figure with a circle head, dot eyes and a curved smile, her white lines wobbling slightly from frame to frame as she handles the real objects and casts a faint soft shadow.
Say the world stays real and only the character is drawn. A faint shadow under the figure is what makes it sit in the scene rather than float over it.
07a black-marker stick figure in a flipbook world
09marker drawings sketching themselves on a whiteboard
10a child's wax-crayon drawing come to life