moonflight

A dream story

Awards

  • CINEVERSE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, UK – FINALIST Best Animation 2024
  • FILMZEN INTERNATIONAL FILM COMPETITION, Chicago – Best Animation & Art 2024
  • DREAMZ CATCHER INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, Kolkata, India – BEST ART DIRECTOR 2024
  • INDO DUBAI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL – HONORABLE MENTION Animated Short 2024
  • REALE FILM FESTIVAL MILANO, BIMONTHLY AWARDS – Honorable Mention 2024
  • NIGHT OF DRAMA SHORT, MILANO – Best Title 2024
  • LUMINARY INDEPENDENT FILM FIESTA, PARIS – Best Animated Film 2024

Official selections

  • HOLLYWOOD BEST INDIE AWARDS, 2024
  • LOS ANGELES MOVIE & DOCUMENTARY AWARD, 2024
  • LOS ANGELES MOVIE & MUSIC VIDEO AWARD, 2024
  • LOS ANGELES SHORT FILM AWARD, 2024
  • NEW YORK FILM & CINEMATOGRAPHY AWARDS, 2024
  • DREAMERS OF DREAMS FILM FESTIVAL LONDON, 2024

How does a knobbly biplane get to the moon on a summer night? With self-confidence and a bit of courage for adventure. Many children dream like this - and so do their favourite companions!
For this story, I was interested in visually blurring the boundaries between reality and dream: The moonlight creates an enchanted night atmosphere with homogeneous colours and hard shadows, which becomes unreal and dreamlike. Only the scene in the children's room is reassuringly real - until the dream continues ...

work process

The construction of the biplane is designed more like a "dream aeroplane", seen through the eyes of a child: cuddly and without technical perfection. The biplane and its flight were realised in Cinema4D, rendered and staged in After Effects with ground and background.

I planned the flight over the landscape in detail, then thought about what the airplane camera would see from the ground - and then drew it in perspective. In After Effects, I created the impression of the flight by scaling, rotating and moving the image.

As a "master cloud", I colored the image of a single cloud, added effects - and then inserted it into the scenes in an alienated form. The crib mobiles has been realized in an elaborately constructed After Effects composition with animated 3D levels.