Animated Sequences for "White Raven"
This is about 30 seconds out of the three minutes of animated sequences I made for "White Raven", a BooTown shadow puppet theater production exploring the life of a bird born with the wrong color feathers.
"White Raven" featured three channels of live shadow puppeteering (performed by Lindsay Burleson, Jade Young, and Mauri Menjivar), with one screen intermittently showing stop-motion animation by me. I handled all design, fabrication and animation duties for the animated sequences.
"White Raven" featured three channels of live shadow puppeteering (performed by Lindsay Burleson, Jade Young, and Mauri Menjivar), with one screen intermittently showing stop-motion animation by me. I handled all design, fabrication and animation duties for the animated sequences.
Music in this mini cut is Black Ant: "1982" (CC BY), plus sound design by me. Music for the actual show was written and performed by Joe Wozny.
Creator/Director: Emily J. Hynds
Puppeteers: Lindsay Burleson, Jade Young, and Mauri Menjivar
Live Score: Joe Wozny
Stop-Motion Animation: Dave Merson Hess
Puppeteers: Lindsay Burleson, Jade Young, and Mauri Menjivar
Live Score: Joe Wozny
Stop-Motion Animation: Dave Merson Hess
PERFORMANCES
August 29, 2015 at Rudyard’s, Houston, TX
September 4 & 7, 2015 at Devin Borden Gallery, Houston, TX
September 10, 11 & 12, 2015 at Alley Kat, Houston, TX
September 4 & 7, 2015 at Devin Borden Gallery, Houston, TX
September 10, 11 & 12, 2015 at Alley Kat, Houston, TX
PRESS
“Shadow Tale: BooTown’s ‘White Raven'”, Arts+Culture TX
“12 Bricks: The Best of the Week”, Free Press Houston
“A Shadow of a Story”, Houston Press/Village Voice Media
“12 Bricks: The Best of the Week”, Free Press Houston
“A Shadow of a Story”, Houston Press/Village Voice Media
The full performance is available on YouTube.