Protoplanet Studio Lumo Stopmotion Animation

Synopsis

Lumo is a film about interaction between drawer and drawing, between two characters and between thinker and thoughts. Three scenes are linked together by a little circle (a molecule, an atom, a cell), which symbolizes the indestructable, transformable energy everything is made of. LUMO is an energy state of a molecule as well as the name of the marker the film is created with.

Full length Animation

2009/2010 | 7:32 min | Whiteboard Stop-Motion Animation

Direction & Animation: Antje Heyn
Music: Peer Kleinschmidt
Sound: Linus Nickl

Awards & Grants

FBW (Seal of Approval)

Take a white background and a whiteboard marker ‘lumo’ and let it dance … playfully light and with fantastically elegant and fast movements using the pencil and fingers, the most different forms and shapes develop, from something new, into each other and apart. First heads were decorated with a variety of hair styles and coverings with a variety of ethnological variables are revealed. Then the world of animals explodes with humorous communication between different species. We experience a wealth of different forms and objects. And finally, a wonderful dream and thought game. The dance on the white plateau not only offers a maximum of imagination, but also impresses by the quality of its reduction in the graphic and painterly design. And even more: all of this happens in harmony with the musical accompaniment. A little masterpiece that really gives pleasure!

Screenings

Making Of

A wide variety of media and techniques can be found in the field of animation, and in choosing a technique, their respective qualities and strengths must be weighed in relation to the particular subject. The whiteboard stop-motion technique is virtually predestined for interaction because of its absolute immediacy. In this process, the drawing on a whiteboard is changed slightly, picture by picture, in a process of drawing, deleting and redrawing. The reproduction of the single image, 5334 in total, leads to an illusion of movement in the otherwise static drawings – hence the term “animation” (from the Latin: animare, “come to life”).