I created 18 short animations for the project 'Cabinets of Wonder', a VR series of the German company Expanding Focus GmbH.
I started this project during IF Lab, which is an international series of workshops on interactive storytelling and is dedicated to training journalists, filmmakers, photographers and coders in the new digital age. There I helped the Swedish photographer Kaspars Goba to design a website for his project 'Memory of Landscape' and created animations for 'Cabinets of Wonder' of the German company Expanding Focus GmbH.
After IF Lab, I continued my collaboration with Expanding Focus Gmbh by making more animations for their project. 'Cabinets of Wonder' will consist out of a feature length documentary, accompanied by a VR experience series and a media literacy program for schools and educators. It focusses on four children: Wisdom (9), a German boy of Cameroonian heritage, Joline (10) a girl with dyslexia, Elias (12) with a diagnosis of autism and Roja (11) who fled from Iran to Germany two years ago. All very different, they have one thing in common: they do not fit into the framework of our function-driven society und wish for a place where they can stay timelessly, as long as they want and where no one tells them what to do, their own Cabinet of Wonder.
My job existed out of making short animations for the VR series. I created, among other things, colourful falling raindrops, flying UFOs, glowing diamonds and a colour changing chameleon that catches a fly with its tongue. The illustrations where drawn by an illustrator beforehand, but sometimes I had to make an illustration myself in the same style, e.g. an old radio.
