THE GOLD RUSH
Analog collage animation made of pieces of paper for the film "Gold Rush"
THE GOLD RUSH
GRIGORII ZHGILIOV, DIRECTOR:
The film "Gold Rush" is a story about the gold rush in Siberia in the style of silent films and stop-motion collage animation. For such an animation, you need to print and cut out the necessary images of objects and people from paper. Then you can move them, crumple, tear and make other analog effects. Each stage must be photographed to be edited on a computer.
All the objects involved in the animation are real exhibits from museums. We took pictures of them without taking them out of the museum.
We photographed historical buildings with tilt-shift optics. This is a special kind of lens that allows you to correct perspective distortions.
All the scenes of this animated film were designed by a concept artist. After that, the scenes are decomposed into elements for analog photography. After shooting, the scenes are reassembled on the computer in an animation program.
