Paper Birds

Hand-illustrated 2D animation cycle for a conservation campaign — 14 short loops across broadcast and social.

Client

Audubon Society

Year

2025

Duration

3 months

Role

Direction · 2D Animation · Final Polish

Deliverables

14 broadcast loops · Social cutdowns

Recognition

Annecy · In Competition · Short Form

/ 01 — The brief

Migration as a moving illustration.

Atlas Pictures came to us with a single page of script and a question: could a stop-motion short, made over six months, set the visual tone for an entire upcoming streaming series? The piece had to feel like a film — not a stylised teaser, not a calling card. A film.

We agreed on three constraints up front. The story had to land emotionally. The character had to feel hand-made — not motion-graphics-clean. And every shot had to be one we could put in front of a feature audience without flinching.