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This director really knows how to paint herself out of a corner. Painting and animating 7 foot tall 2D to 3D sculpture conversions? “The Bigger Picture” could also have been named “The Logistically Daring Masterpiece.” Director Daisy Jacobs has deftly drawn a razor’s edge between flat art and life size puppetry, between richly subjective inner experience and bleaker real outer circumstance; ripping open a very fluid pandora’s box of poetic imagination. The story (which she also wrote) chronicles the dry and dark difficulties of two brothers as they ambivalently care for their aging mother. The 8 minute National Film and Television School MA Grad Film has just won a joint third prize at Cannes, the prestigious Cinefondation award. Jacobs previously studied art at London’s Central Saint Martins for five years before attending NFTS. After Cannes, the short has been selected to screen at Animafest Zagreb (June 8th), Official selection at Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2014 (June 14th), and Brazil’s Anima Mundi (July 25th and August 6th). The film boasts wonderful lighting and sound design as well. Read on to watch the inspiring and insightful making of video and as lead animator Chris Wilder, a beautifully experimental illustrator in his own right, shares some interdimensional production details with Dragon.

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