Motion

L'étrange monde terrestre

“The strange earthly world”: a red bus crosses the Americas, in stop-motion

  1. 01 / 09Leaving Paris, under the Arc de Triomphe
  2. 02 / 09The frozen Native American, and the plane going by
  3. 03 / 09Butterflies born from the crash
  4. 04 / 09The Montagna Tortuga, in the Andes
  5. 05 / 09The Pan-Pan rabbits, by the water
  6. 06 / 09New York, crossing the bridge
  7. 07 / 09The workers sitting on their beam
  8. 08 / 09The bus and the fish
  9. 09 / 09One last arch, then the curtain of leaves
L'étrange monde terrestre — The film, ten seconds0:11
The film, ten seconds

A red bus leaves Paris, crosses the Americas and comes back to where it started: the journey is a loop, with passengers boarding and getting off under the Arc de Triomphe. Everything is made by collage, frame by frame, from old black-and-white engravings in which only the bus and a few characters are in colour.

Along the way the bus passes a Native American man frozen like a witness of a vanished past; a plane that crashes and releases a cloud of butterflies — beauty rising out of tragedy; the Andes and their Montagna Tortuga; the wetlands of the Amazon and the Pan-Pan rabbits; then New York: Batman’s bat, a lady in a yellow dress, a giant crab devouring a skyscraper and, at the end, the workers sitting on their beam at the top of a building.

A workshop project made by three: writing the journey, building the sets and characters, then animating frame by frame. Forty-seven shots for ten seconds of film — and closing credits thanking the viewer for trusting us to show them the strange earthly world.

  • Affinity Photo 2
  • Stop Motion Studio
  • After Effects
L'étrange monde terrestre — The frozen Native American, and the plane going by
The frozen Native American, and the plane going by
L'étrange monde terrestre — Butterflies born from the crash
Butterflies born from the crash
L'étrange monde terrestre — The Montagna Tortuga, in the Andes
The Montagna Tortuga, in the Andes
L'étrange monde terrestre — The Pan-Pan rabbits, by the water
The Pan-Pan rabbits, by the water
L'étrange monde terrestre — New York, crossing the bridge
New York, crossing the bridge
L'étrange monde terrestre — The workers sitting on their beam
The workers sitting on their beam
L'étrange monde terrestre — Final shot: the bus and the fish
Final shot: the bus and the fish
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