The Eagleman Stag - Mikey Please

THE EAGLEMAN STAG from Mikey Please on Vimeo.

This Animation is hand crafted using white paper, foam board and other materials, the one constant thing is that everything is white making the lighting look incredible and almost impossible to duplicate. How he managed to get the lighting right and the detail in this blows my mind. The expressions on the faces are done in the editing process using computer animation to help add the personality and mood to the characters within. The animation is about how life seems to speed up as you age, making each minuet shorter, and how the main character has managed to find a possible cure in a small beetle he named the Eagleman stag. Mikey Please has managed to show a whole lifetime within a short animation.

115 handcrafted sets are used throughout the whole animation, each full of detail. Mikey Please is an independent animator who managed to show such christ smooth movement throughout the short film, having a beautiful score composed by his brother and the actor David Cann voicing the character. 

www.mikeyplease.co.uk