Yuri Santos | Motion Designer

Cotton Cloudy Candy

Stop motion piece

— ROLE

Motion Designer

Animator

Storyboard Artist


— TOOLS

Stop Motion Studio App After Effects

Photoshop

Adobe Audition


— DATE

2024

A stop motion short story about a cotton candy and its mysteries. Life and death can be mysterious, but we only get one shot, so remember to enjoy and be true to ourselves. Project for stop motion class – Digital Design 2024 – at Vancouver Film School.


One of the challenges I faced in this project was crafting a compelling narrative. To overcome this, I drew inspiration from the timeless 'Hero's Journey' structure. However, when it came to concluding the story, I got stuck. But with my instructor's wise words: "In animation, you don't need to ground everything in reason and reality, anything can happen.", that helped me to push myself to create the end for this short story.

Storyboard

Part 1 – Storyboard

Part 2 – Storyboard


Rough Cut – Behind the scenes

Rough Cut – Behind the scenes

Process of stop motion animation and

how I made the expressions of the characters.