make an animated short that felt like Hedgehog in the Fog. I didn’t want to copy Yuri Norstein’s film, so we went with a new story.
It runs for 6.5 minutes. All 9363 frames are drawn by JavaScript code written by Opus. No video or image generation models, just canvas.
It follows a little mouse in a red scarf. Her grandfather, an old mole, is out fishing when fog rolls over the lake. She goes looking for him with a walnut-shell lantern and a sleeping firefly inside. They have a secret knock to help them find each other: short, short, long. It means "I’m here".
Norstein used paper cutouts on layers of glass, filmed frame by frame. I wanted some of that paper texture to come through in code. So the scenes use different styles: torn-paper collage, chalk on black paper, tissue paper underwater. There’s even sand on a light table and a pop-up book.
Opus wrote the music too. It found Steinway piano samples in my Logic library and used Python to compose the score around the rhythm of that knock.
中文翻譯
做一部感覺像《Hedgehog in the Fog》的動畫短片。我不想照搬 Yuri Norstein 的影片，所以我們採用了一個新故事。
片長 6.5 分鐘。全部 9363 幀都由 Opus 編寫的 JavaScript 代碼繪製。沒有視頻或圖像生成模型，只有 canvas。
故事跟着一隻戴紅圍巾的小老鼠。她的祖父，一隻老鼴鼠，在外出釣魚時，霧漫過了湖面。她提着一盞核桃殼燈籠，裏面裝着一隻睡着的螢火蟲，去找他。他們有一個祕密的敲門暗號來幫助彼此找到對方：短、短、長。它的意思是“我在這裏”。
Norstein 使用剪紙在多層玻璃上逐幀拍攝。我想讓那種紙張質感有一部分通過代碼呈現出來。所以各個場景使用了不同風格：撕紙拼貼、黑紙上的粉筆、水中的薄紙。甚至還有燈箱上的沙子和一本立體書。
音樂也是 Opus 寫的。它在我的 Logic 素材庫裏找到了 Steinway 鋼琴採樣，並用 Python 圍繞那個敲門暗號的節奏譜了曲。
