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The Hedgehog in a Hole - Stopmotion cartoon (2025)

Support me if there is such an opportunity — https://boosty.to/shmonkolan I would like to show the sins and vices of man through images and metaphors of forest animals and through some abstraction. I was inspired by Russian folklore, fairy-tales, Bible and works by David Lynch. After the birth of an idea I searched and read materials on this topic. When I started to create characters I had some problems with visual decisions. My key character is the punk hedgehog, who should be kind and freedom-loving. I sculpted it over and over again until I got the result I needed. While I was trying to make an ideal appearance for characters I was distracted by my brothers and sisters. They asked me to help them with homework. In addition to characters, I need a background and scenery. I took the rectangular piece of foam from the trash for the decorations and the stage. I washed it and dried it in the sun. After that, I coated the surface of the foam with a special powder that imitated the ground. I mixed this powder with water and covered it layer by layer. Then I dipped the brush into the glue and sprinkled the special material that imitates grass on the foam. It was an unusual experience for me but really interesting. Some stages required non-standard solutions. For example, I needed to get the camera to shoot a view from above. However, I didn't have any special equipment for this. I thought of connecting the rather tall cylindrical bottle for shampoo (it was empty and I filled it with water for weight) with a big piece of plasticine and my phone. In the end, I got the homemade and quite convenient design for filming the shots I needed. Not everything was smooth during the production of the cartoon. Besides that, at that time I had special lessons in art design courses. The difficult program began and I couldn't devote time to the cartoon every day. The filming process took up to six months (or more). Sometimes my hands were dropping. Everything seemed so complicated and unattainable. Some days I even couldn't continue the filming. I threw clay all over the room. I could just drop it, because circumstances distracted me greatly from the process. Together with that, I understood perfectly well that I was part of the family and I couldn’t help but help my brother and two sisters. Course assignments were also necessary for me. Nevertheless, I still had the motivation to finish this cartoon no matter what. I tried to continue to make the cartoon at least on weekends. Many scripts in my drafts were crossed out. I came up with something on the fly and even improvised. For example, I came up with abstract scenes using colored paper during filming. As a result, I ended up with the longest and most unusual cartoon I have ever made. Despite all the difficulties I managed with that non-trivial experience. My dream, perhaps naive and childish, is to create my own animation studio. I would like to give everyone the freedom to create and express their thoughts through art. In my opinion, creation means living. It makes us alive, inquisitive and real. #cartoon #clay #animation #hedgehog #wot_studios #film #horror #slavicfolklore