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Food Chain by The Like Minded

Food Chain is a short animation from The Like Minded labs, a space where the studio lets their creative juices bubble without constraints. In this short The Like Minded take a look at the cyclical journey of a food chain.

Directors Notes

Influenced by nature documentaries. Working out how to take real life creatures and push the boundaries of their characteristics and aesthetics using creative license.

Food chain experiments with illustration styles and a vivid, limited colour palette. Intrigued by the cyclical nature of the natural world, a looping animation seemed a harmonious fit.

The film was made first by sketching some ideas for how each stage would run from one to the next. The characters were realised further in Adobe Illustrator, then brought to life in Adobe After Effects with a blend of cel and keyframe animation.