Channel Frederator Blog

This week, Channel Frederator features a unique animation that combines puppetry and green screen magic called “The Land Eaters” by Brandon Ray. Lucky for us, Brandon documented his process, and called it -

Read. It’s awesome.
-Bailee

The Land Eaters is my most recent animated digital short. There wasn’t a whole lot of cerebral planning involved… my inspiration for the story stemmed from my fundamental concept of nature- consumptive, cruel, yet somehow beautiful (much like Werner Herzog’s assessment of nature in Grizzly Man). My starting point for the narrative came from a series of paintings my wife Lisa did while she was in Buenos Aires, Argentina last year studying abroad. In front of those gorgeous landscapes, I could see some sort of dark & twisted plot unraveling.

In terms of aesthetics and technique, I wanted to push myself out of my comfort zone a little, so I limited myself on what I was allowed to ‘animate’ [Read more…]