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Love Meets in the Stars by Chris Johnson
June 1, 2009 12:07 pm


Nashville-based animator Chris Johnson created this piece. The story behind it is sweet:

“It is inspired by Yuri Norstein, Lotte Reiniger, The Science of Sleep, and many other things, but more than anything by the girl I am going to marry and our special relationship. There is plenty of symbolism in the short, but the theme I’m getting to is where one’s heart is. She lives in Mexico which is far from where I live in Tennessee, and I’d go to the moon to get her.”

Sadly, I’m still waiting for somebody to create a cartoon about how special I am.

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richard o'connor says:
06/1/09  1:52pm

“I’m still waiting for somebody to create a cartoon about how special I am.”
I thought someone already had:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsGYh8AacgY

Or was I thinking of “Captain Crossdresser”?

 
TStevens says:
06/1/09  3:40pm

Cool Looking piece! With a little story this could easilly be turned into a seven or eight minute short. However, if Chris takes this any farther than a portfolio piece he probably ought to check out the music rights. I think the selection he has is from the Amelie soundtrack. I’m assuming that he probably couldn’t afford to pay for it if he ever had to.

If we learned anything from Nina Paley’s problems it is that you should always check on trademark and copyrights for music and images before you get too far into production. When in doubt, check out the stock libraries at places like DeWolfe.

 
John Hamm says:
06/1/09  4:06pm

Nice job, C! It turned out great.

 
Nina Paley says:
06/1/09  6:22pm

If we learned anything from Nina Paley’s problems

I hope you learned this!

 
Andrew Lee says:
06/2/09  7:58am

C….cool man. I had no idea you were working on this. Good for you.

I like it:)

 
Rickey Boyd says:
06/2/09  8:47pm

Congrats C, very nice wedding gift. What’s next, animated wedding invitiations ? Flipbooks? Just a thought……….well done.

 
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