Masha du Toit

My post on  Caroline Leaf’s “Owl and Goose” has lead me to another interesting animation.   Spanish musician-animator César Díaz used the same sand on glass technique to create this animation for the song No Corras Tanto.

César is a musician as well as an animator – in fact, he is one of the musicians in El Combolinga, the band responsible for this song .  He was kind enough to answer some of my questions.

Firstly – the imagery in the animation was entirely spontaneous and improvised.  César says:

“I had no script or storyboard .. except the lyrics of the song. Every day encouraged that I could think at that time.  Although I’m lost much time thinking about what to do.”

He also mentions that he got pretty tired of that particular piece of music 🙂

If you are wondering about the process, here is a “making of”.  César assures me that there was no post production – no computer wizardry done afterwards to “slick it up”.

I asked him if he was inspired by Ryan Larkin at all – I was thinking particularly of “Street Musique” and also the famous “Walking” animation –  but apparently he had not come across Ryan’s work at the time he made No Corras Tanto.  Ryan Larkin is pretty awesome, but I think César is right up there with him – I’m including these two animations by Ryan Larkin: