Great issue. Watching Chamoe come together in such a gradual and granular way is really special. The way you break down the tiniest, tiniest tweaks (like the girl's hairline) is something the public rarely gets to see in animation.
The insights about the state of the world strike home, too. There's an Afghan animator named Sara Barackzay who we've written about and interacted with before -- she hasn't left our thoughts since all of this started. We just hope she's safe, somewhere.
I love the Chamoe animation - the story dovetails with the drawings so perfectly. And Mom's voice... And this deeply resonates with me: "What Iām ultimately getting at is that everything is awful, but not everything." It reminds me that I haven't been doing the "little" things that bring me joy, which after all, are not so little. Thank you for sharing your beautiful thoughts there.
Reading this made my day(s) 1000 times better. And you had me at Sebald quote. Because I was just thinking about his other: "Melancholy, the rethinking of disaster we are in...."
Coleen, really lovely and inspiring. Merci !
Great issue. Watching Chamoe come together in such a gradual and granular way is really special. The way you break down the tiniest, tiniest tweaks (like the girl's hairline) is something the public rarely gets to see in animation.
The insights about the state of the world strike home, too. There's an Afghan animator named Sara Barackzay who we've written about and interacted with before -- she hasn't left our thoughts since all of this started. We just hope she's safe, somewhere.
I love the Chamoe animation - the story dovetails with the drawings so perfectly. And Mom's voice... And this deeply resonates with me: "What Iām ultimately getting at is that everything is awful, but not everything." It reminds me that I haven't been doing the "little" things that bring me joy, which after all, are not so little. Thank you for sharing your beautiful thoughts there.
Reading this made my day(s) 1000 times better. And you had me at Sebald quote. Because I was just thinking about his other: "Melancholy, the rethinking of disaster we are in...."