New Zealand Book Council's "Going West" and 4th Estate's "This is Where We Live"

I first saw this animation via Inkthread, one of the blogs I frequent regularly. Careful manipulation of light and shadow really make this film sing.

Here is another I first saw via Inkthread:


This Is Where We Live from 4th Estate on Vimeo.

If you check out 4th Estate on Vimeo, you can see several behind the scene videos that reveal the painstaking processes involved.