Analogue Loaders

Raphael Vangelis

About the idea

This short film is Raphael Vangelis animated autobiography. He spends most of my life swearing at the computer because it’s crashed or isn’t working. Here, well known digital symbols are turned into something analogue and playful. The result is homage to all the lost time we collectively spend in digital limbo in the hopes of sudden development on our screen.

Statistics show that on average humans spend 4 years of their lives with waiting.
To Raphael it feels like a lot more.

This film is an abstraction and playful conversion of all the time I spend waiting in my most used applications. The plan was to take something very digital, boring and transport it into the analogue world. Exuberant, yet sophisticated and meticulous, human, handcrafted.

Making of

From the creator:

This short film is my animated autobiography. I spend most of my life swearing at the computer because it's crashed or isn't working. Here, well known digital symbols are turned into something analogue and playful. The result is an homage to all the lost time we collectively spend in digital limbo in the hopes of sudden development on our screen.

Making Of: https://vimeo.com/201632751
http://raphaelvangelis.com/Analogue-Loaders

Design, Direction, Animation: Raphael Vangelis

Music & Sound Design: Antfood
Cel Animation: Matthieu Petit, Joey McCormick, David Schagerström, Aparajita R., Raphael Vangelis
Director of Photography: Florian Juri, Raphael Vangelis
Model Making: Elizabeth Peach, Domo Suki, Bryony Hooper, Julia Caram, Raphael Vangelis
Production Assistance: Victoria Waterhouse-Taylor
Compositing: Leanne Pletersky, Tiago Barbosa, Duncan Horn, Raphael Vangelis
Color Grading: Daniel de Vue

Funding by:
Land Salzburg
Land Oberoesterreich
Stadt Salzburg

Big Thanks to:
Hector MacLeod
Glassworks

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2 Comments

Matt Gilligan

I love this concept, I’m sure I wasn’t the only one playing “spot the programme”. I haven’t been as impressed by this workflow since I first saw DBLG’s “Bears On Stairs”; makes me really want to play with a 3D printer.

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Raphael Vangelis

Thanks man!
ad 3D printing: go for it. great fun and weird feeling building this stuff on your computer one minute and holding it in your hands a few hours after.

Cheers,
Raphael

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