Method

Animation

Where the labour is measured in days per second rather than setups per day.

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Method

One hundred and thirty days of work, twelve frames a day at the worst of it

Stop motion shot on a Canon 5D with a home-built orbiting arm, every frame printed and rescanned as a poor-man's film-out because there was no budget for colour timing.

Just Desserts, "Tender" · Dir. James Siewert

Orange Story poster: naive drawings of an astronaut, crocodile and dog in a desert palette

Made without funding over seven years, Shahaf Ram produced Orange Story by keeping visuals simple, animating almost entirely himself and using targeted collaborators for script and sound.

Orange Story — Shahaf Ram’s seven-year solo animation

Seven years, no funding: Shahaf Ram made Orange Story solo by simplifying design, self-voicing, and tight post-production collaboration.