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The second edition of the Latin American and Caribbean Animation Forum takes place as part of the 45th International Festival of New Latin American Cinema, Havana, Cuba. With the success of its first year, the forum grew and its creators decided to make a vignette with Daniel Raban\u00e9a at the helm.<\/p>\n
We caught up with Raban\u00e9a and asked him a little about the making of the piece, which serves an almost flyer-like purpose: \u201cSince this was the first animation specifically for the forum,\u201d he told us, \u201cit was decided to use the forum\u2019s logo character, which is also the character from the most famous Cuban animated feature film, \u2018Vampiros en Havana\u2019 by Juan Padr\u00f3n (1985).<\/p>\n
\u201cThe animation technique was easy to decide on since everyone involved in this production is a big stop motion enthusiast and producer.\u00a0We had the character and the technique, but we still didn\u2019t have a story.\u00a0We thought of many scripts, such as drinking blood with a straw as if it were a drink on the beach, stabbing the cigar with the vampire\u2019s tooth, a drop of blood traveling across the American continent, but in the end, necessity\u2014the mother of creativity, reminded us that it couldn\u2019t be a super production and the deadline was approaching.\u201d<\/p>\n
So, timeline in mind, Raban\u00e9a began to focus in on the character itself. \u201cIt starts with a vampire sleeping, apparently right-side up. To make this game of positions clear, I thought of a bat flying \u2018upside down\u2019 and landing on the vampire\u2019s shoulder. In addition, the vampire smokes a Cuban cigar and the smoke strangely goes down. Then he wakes up, looks at the camera, realizes that the camera is wrong, looks angry and the cameraman corrects the position by turning the camera 180 degrees to the right way, which is to show them actually upside down.\u201d<\/p>\n
In addition to the vampire\u2019s positioning joke, the idea of rotating or inverting also met the forum\u2019s theme of, \u201cfostering regional animation, decolonizing production, questioning pre-established standards, thinking, changing directions, so that we can find our own way of creating.\u201d<\/p>\n
The characters were made with modeling clay, with the exception of the vampire\u2019s eyes, which are plastic. \u201cI ended up becoming a fan of the artist who designed the character,\u201d Raban\u00e9a said, \u201cbecause every time I changed the proportions, it was clear that the original drawing was better.\u00a0The bat and smoke movements were first traced on a tablet and loaded as a reference video in\u00a0Dragonframe.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor the cigar smoke, it was possible to repeat the cycle, but all the bat positions were modeled individually and animated by substitution.\u00a0Although it was a simple work, I really liked the final result: the inverting game, the nostalgic Cuban music, the way it was done naturally by hand, and it being the vignette of an animation forum with an emphasis on original creation.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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