Cotton Clouds, Like Always
Hannah Sy
NOMINEE: PRESIDENT’S MEDIA AWARDS FOR BEST IN 2D + EXPERIMENTAL ANIMATION
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Synopsis
Duration: 6:45 min
Medium: 2D Animation
Two friends — Issy and Calev — are skipping class as they normally tend to do. However, as their day progresses, glitches start to appear, interactions become progressively unusual, and for some strange reason, no one seems to notice.
Artist statement
What I find beautiful is often not real, and perhaps that is why I turn to animation. It’s the closest I get to a living fantasy. With “Cotton Clouds, Like Always”, I wanted to create an amalgamation of all the things I found beautiful — paintings, anime, and worlds built from the imagination. However, something I realized while conceptualizing this film was that, in order to capture this vision, I must learn to be efficient. Thus came the implementation of puppet rigs, 3D assets, and Japanese animation techniques. With these tools, I made my world inspired by beautiful things.
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Credits
Director
Hannah Sy
Cast
Hiroshi Alex Shei (Calev), Pritty Wang (Issy), Artemis Cheung (Teacher Merry), Abigail Cruikshanks (Miss Steph), Alpha Yu (Patrol bot 1), Candyce Gao (Patrol bot 2), Darryl Dela Cruz (Patrol bot 3)
Music Composer
Justin Monroe
Sound Design, Mixer, Foley Artist
Jeralyn Magantino
Visual development Artists
Hannah Sy, Michelle Wang, Natasha Lee, Alycia Yuk Yen Chan
Rig Artist
Hannah Sy, Natasha Lee
Storyboard Artist
Hannah Sy, Madeleine Yiu
Layout Artist
Hannah Sy, Alycia Yuk Yen Chan, Kaiden Cole, Pritty Wang
3D Modellers
Hannah Sy, Natasha Lee, Candyce Gao
Background Artists
Hannah Sy, Alpha Yu, Kaiden Cole, Michelle Wang, Alycia Yuk Yen Chan, Pritty Wang
Animators
Hannah Sy, Jared Barbosa, Kirsten Mills, Alycia Yuk Yen Chan, Edith Wong, Cindy Chen, Chloe Worrall-Yu
Compositor
Hannah Sy, Natasha Lee , Michelle Wang
Production Manager
Sabrina Teng
