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Something Left, Something Taken by Max Porter & Ru Kuwahata
June 16, 2010 9:02 am
Something Left, Something Taken is a charming and funny tale about paranoia in the Bay Area. It’s made by the Brooklyn-based husband-and-wife team of Max Porter and Ru Kuwahata, who are better known as Tiny Inventions. They worked on the film for nearly two-and-a-half years in between commercial jobs like this “Davy Crockett” music video for They Might Be Giants. Max and Ru used nearly every trick in the bag to make this including stop-motion, pixilation, drawn animation on paper, After Effects, Flash and live-action puppets. The film mixes together these elements in a seamless manner to create a whimsical hand-crafted world featuring lots of felt, fabric, rope, and cardboard. My favorite touch is the crocheted eyelids of the characters. A comprehensive “making of” blog post with videos and images is available on their website. CREDITS Sound Design/ Mix: Greg Sextro (East West Audio) Voice: Friends who helped us:
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posted in Shorts, Stop Motion, Max Porter, Ru Kuwahata, Tiny Inventions 
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Yes, I think we’d all being in this kind of situation… :D
Loved it!
Bad-ass!
This film won a very deserved 1st place in the independent film category at this years ASIFA-East festival at which it entertained the entire audience!
Very fresh. I liked it.
G U N !
I like their cute depiction of decomposition.
These guys are the BEST!! Love ALL there stuff!!
Max and Ru rule!
Awesome! I loved it.
Astonishing and fantastic film, one of the best ever!!
Everything in this film is wonderful, the history, the style, the animation, the music, etc, pure inspiration in every single aspect.
Yay for Max and Ru! Glad they put the whole thing up online.
I loved that they used so many techniques. It would be interesting to see them do more hand drawn stuff (digital or paper).
this is so totally incredible! you guys are so awesome!!! congratulations on wrapping this up…and on not getting whacked!
Max, you and Ru are awesome! Rad work, man.
Great film ! I love it !
Nothing short of great. It’s funny how you can tell by the first ten frames or so that something’s just going to be good all along. Same goes for crap, I might add.
I love that they both came out of the NY studio system and then did their own thing afterwards. These two are ones to watch. And, they give us lots of reasons to be hopeful about this current generation of animators.
THANK YOU! Max and I are happy to see nice comments! And thank you Amid for posting!
Wow, thanks for sharing that amazing short! I love how hand made and warm it feels. Digital folk art!
layers and layers of originality and creativity. so refreshing and well crafted. Very impressed!
Looks great guys! Two years well spent! Especially love the yarn decomposition.
That was awesome!!
Wonderful short!
I absolutely love the use of Jello for the Ocean! :) brilliant. The hand puppet segment made my day also :)
I was waiting for them to hand Leslie her fishing rod at the end and her say “I don’t have a fishing rod..” Dun dun dunnnnn!