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How to Make a Baby

April 22, 2009 2:25 pm

Cassidy Curtis, an animator at PDI/DreamWorks, and his wife, Raquel Coelho, created this charming pixilated short that also serves as a document of a pregnancy. The extensive notes on how they made it are worth reading:

Animating over such a long period of time, using an increasingly pregnant woman as one of your puppets, means basically throwing out everything you might normally do in an animated film. For example, early on, we had this idea that we should wear the same clothes every time, for continuity’s sake. But as Raquel’s pregnancy developed, we soon discovered that the extra effort required to change in and out of our uniforms was going to interfere with the goal of shooting as many frames as possible, and might even prevent us from finishing the project at all. We dialed down the perfectionism, and in the process ended up having a lot more fun with it.

(via A Cup of Jo)

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24 comments posted in Shorts, Stop Motion

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04/22/09 2:38pm	GameOverGirl says:
	I love this!
04/22/09 3:03pm	red pill junkie says:
	Nice work! Oh, and the short was funny too :-D
04/22/09 3:26pm	Aaron H. Bynum says:
	So that’s where babies come from…
04/22/09 3:43pm	Rick Blankenship says:
	Brilliantly brilliant! Congrats to Cassidy and Raquel, for the baby and the film.
04/22/09 4:40pm	Bobby D. says:
	Really cute. It reminds me of the a time-lapse thing that a guy who lived somewhere in Europe, (I can’t recall where), made. He shot a photograph of his child in the same pose, every day from baby to adult. Thanks for this one Amid.
04/22/09 4:47pm	Emily says:
	Wow. How neat. They will forever be glad they made that film.
04/22/09 5:46pm	tony mccarson says:
	It’s creepy to me. but it’s a good film.
04/22/09 6:39pm	Ken Priebe says:
	That’s very funny and creative. Rather timely too…my wife and I are expecting and found out yesterday it’s a boy. :)
04/22/09 6:51pm	Bryan says:
	don’t forget that Raquel is an animator too. I believe at Tippett http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0168726/
04/22/09 8:30pm	Matt Sullivan says:
	Very clever. And a cute kid to boot :}
04/22/09 9:38pm	G. Melissa Graziano says:
	Super cute! :D And nicely done. :)
04/22/09 10:14pm	cookiepuss says:
	Meh. Just think of how much better this would’ve been if a Pixar couple had made it.
04/22/09 10:33pm	OtherDan says:
	That was worth all the work. If only it were that easy!
04/22/09 11:00pm	Jance says:
	haha Raquel you and Cassidy are totally awesome. Congrats on the baby!!!!
04/23/09 1:36am	andre says:
	hahahaha! its really cracked me up !! LOVE IT !
04/23/09 1:40am	andre says:
	Couldn’t stop notice cookiepuss nonsense comment. I can easily picture you watching a episode of FRIENDS wondering how great it would be if pixar has done it. :D
04/23/09 4:17am	Ward says:
	Say now, that’s not how WE made our babies! This way looks way more fun. I feel robbed. Congrats to Cassidy & Raquel — very cute short! And very cute baby, too!
04/23/09 8:48am	Siamang says:
	“Meh. Just think of how much better this would’ve been if a Pixar couple had made it.” …. wins the thread.
04/23/09 8:56am	Fred Sparrman says:
	I KNEW you could get pregnant from oral sex.
04/23/09 10:22am	John A says:
	And to think, all this time my wife and I have been doing it the hard way…
04/23/09 12:16pm	Dewey McGuire says:
	Oh, dear. And for fifteen years, I’VE been doing it the hard way.
04/23/09 2:21pm	pudleiner says:
	very cute idea :-) So… just wondering… the books on the bookshelf….. for all those months…. was it planned NOT to move them at all, as part of the composition OR did it just turn out that way unsuspectingly due to the busyness of life ?
04/23/09 5:59pm	Someone says:
	“Meh. Just think of how much better this would’ve been if a Pixar couple had made it.” Wow, best commenton this whole block.
04/24/09 8:29am	Julian Carter says:
	The person who keeps quoting “cookiepuss” is really starting to annoy me. Great animation Cassidy! You and your wife make the cutest couple! =)

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