The Bird and the Whale is a story about a young whale struggling to find his voice.
After straying too far from his family to explore a shipwreck, he discovers its sole survivor, a caged songbird. Together they struggle to survive lost at sea. The Bird and the Whale was created using a near obsolete technique called paint-on-glass animation. Each frame is hand-painted with slow drying oil paint and shot with a top-down camera in a light controlled room. After a frame is shot, the paint is wiped away and the next frame is repainted almost entirely from scratch. Each new frame created, destroys the last. The full 7 minutes of animation is made up of over 4300, 24 x 34 inch paintings and took a team of 5 artists over 14 months to paint.
Running time: 7 minutes
Carol Freeman
The Bird and the Whale
Carol Freeman
The Bird and the Whale
Carol Freeman
Carol Freeman is an award-winning director and art director best known for her IFTA-nominated and Cannes Young Director Award winning paint-on-glass short, The Bird and the Whale. She is the Founder and Director of Dublin based stop-motion studio, Paper Panther. She has racked up over 60 award wins and ten nominations for her short and commercial work. Carol is also a voting member of the Irish Film & Television Academy.
