In all of about
10 minutes, Sweet Dreams – a short
film by American animator Kirsten Lepore, transports you to a world completely fabricated
and populated by food, making you laugh, cry and crave sweets all at once.
Sweet Dreams follows the exploits of a curious cupcake
on his journey from his own candy-crafted land to an isle populated entirely
with vegetables, then back again. The film’s set an characters were also made almost
entirely from food – decorated by various sweets such as ice cream cones, sugar
cubes and Liquorice (among others), while also featuring a Smorgasbord of
vegetables.
The
film – written, directed and animated by Kirsten Lepore, a young animator based
in Los Angeles – was Lepore’s undergrad thesis project while at the Maryland Institute
College of Art, taking her nine months to complete. The film sets nicely as the
first in her ever-growing repertoire of stop motion films, her later short
films entitled Bottle and Move Mountain, the latter of which was
her graduate thesis while attending CalArts for her Masters in Fine Arts. It’s
a unique and charming film, cementing Kirsten’s unique artist voice composed of
solid character animation used to bring to life fun and whacky ideas.
You
can go watch Sweet Dreams here
on her Vimeo channel. There are
also several interesting behind-the-scenes resources: a time-lapse of Kirsten building one of the
beach sets over the course of 3.3 hours, a compilation of thirty videos – each ranging
from one to two-and-a-half minutes – of Kirsten documenting her mood and the
happenings of the day over the course of the last thirty days of animation on Sweet Dreams, an interview with Kirsten by KQED Arts, a video of Kirsten teaching some of the
essential building-blocks of stop motion, and, lastly, various
behind-the-scenes and making-of photos which Kirsten posted via her Flickr profile, several
of which are posted below.
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