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Stephen and Susie: What is love?

Directed and Animated by Marta Dias - Bristol School of Animation, UWE Bristol - May 2016.

Two former flatmates in their twenties discuss their differing experiences of love 鈥 Stephen has been in love; Susie hasn鈥檛.

Marta says, 鈥淚 wanted to create an abstract animation, something simple and symbolic, and this conversation couldn't be better for the effect, for Love is the main subject and something quite symbolic. The conversation itself inspired me to create different symbols and animations that related to Stephen's experiences. I didn't aim to give a literal representation of Stephen's story, but I intended to represent it in a way that only animation could allow me to. I looked at Mert Tugen's and CsaK's illustrations for inspiration and Tame Impala's music videos. They all influenced both Stephen's design and the fluidity of my animation.鈥

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57 seconds