Hakubutsushi

It's a simple student animation from Yamamura. The designs and animation are more than adequate, but it's mostly paint-based morphing animation of various critters into other critters and shapes on a blank-white backdrop. It's not a short in the traditional sense that he usually works with. More so like a demo of his animation chops. Given the title Natural History and some of the imagery, it looks like it charts a course through mythology, ecology, and cosmology in very crude ways. I winced a little bit at the Vitruvian Man overlay, which feels kind of sophomoric, introducing a very concrete idea within this free-flowing framework.The Willem Breuker score is kind of irritating, and I feel there would have been a better fit to synchronize with the imagery, but it works well enough.

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