"The Me Bird"

Stratastencil as a technique was devised by Javen Ivey for his Pratt Institute film My Paper Mind, who was himself inspired to create the additive animation process after seeing David Daniels’ strata-cut work.

While Ivey’s creation came together physically through the painstaking X-Acto knifing of construction paper, the tree loving 18bis employed a mixture of green screen footage, After Effects and a ‘light use’ of paper for their echoes of action short, as can be seen in this making-of video.

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