Arctic Creatures, a contemporary polar bear journey
Date
2025
Deliverables
- Motion
- Visual Identity
About
Arctic Creatures is a short photomontage animation that collides two worlds — the raw wilderness of Alaska and the beige ordinariness of suburban America. Built from still photographs, archival footage, and hand-cut collage logic, the piece moves the way memory moves: in fragments, with humor, then unease.
The Narrative
The narrative is drawn from a real podcast episode documenting the northward creep of human development into bear territory — or, depending on how you look at it, the southward drift of bears into ours. Which world is encroaching on which is exactly the question the film leaves open.
Styleframes and refined Storyboard
Refined frames showcase high-contrast black-and-white imagery that evokes a vintage feel. The last frame depicts the symbolic intersection of polar bears and human footprints with an additional fleshly red hue.
Initial Storyboard
Early main challenges were to link and depict the encounter between polar bears and humans in thought as a subtle and concise story.
Colateral
Graphic material was taken directly from an early storyboard frame — a bear and human facing each other, redrawn as a single image. What started as a compositional sketch became the visual identity for the film's promotion.
