Create what’s next in Exquisite Corpse
Auckland animation house Cirkus are telling a story. Actually, they’re animating a story that everyone is telling.
Launched earlier this year, Exquisite Corpse provides everyone with the opportunity to submit the next 50 words of the story. Once a month, the best idea (according to Cirkus) is selected, animated and added to the story.
A monstrous dragon flies over George and lays an egg mid-flight. George catches the egg and cracks it on his sharp, protruding nose. He eats the egg raw and grows three times his size…
George tiptoes from mountaintop to mountaintop until he reaches a chasm too wide to step across. Below he sees a woman, Hilda, contemplating an egg much like the one George ate…
The egg which Hilda dropped cracks open and from a yolk a little pink chicken called Henry morphes and starts to chirp. As if in answer to the chirp something starts chirping inside Georges stomach. And suddenly a blue feather pops out from the top of Georges head…
The feather catches fire, melting a hapless George into a technicoloured pool. From his liquid remnants grows a vivid forest of bizarre flowers and plants, which unfurl skyward until they dwarf the mountains. Chocolate chip cheetahs, gingerbread giraffes and liquorice snakes wind their way through the thick foliage…
This was put together by Leon Hayward (M&C Saatchi, Auckland), Carl Thelin (Common Communication, Shanghai), Kanika Sinha (Miditech, India) and Amy Thexton (TBWA Whybin, Auckland) respectively.
This is a great initiative that shows off the skills of the Cirkus team, and lets your imagination go wild as you come up with the next part of the story. It’s great to see that they’re not just picking the ‘easy’ ideas either - the latest addition threw up a heap of challenging and intriguing elements for the team to animate, and we think they’ve done a brilliant job.
The next instalment is due out in July - what twist will it bring, and will it be your idea that’s used?
- Filed under: 3D Animation, VFX Motion Design