Hello everyone!! While researching the awesome art of stop motion, Beverly (Libby Story’s creative director) came across this amazing video on youtube by Kirsten Lepore. The video’s called “Sweet Dreams” and features the misadventures of a delicious little cupcake. Here they are:
Photo via Kirsten
After spotting the video, Beverly sent it immediately to me and told me this is what our next post is about. (Turns out, she wasn’t lying!) I had a chance to email the creator, Kirsten, and ask her some questions about Sweet Dreams and herself.
According to Kirsten, the making of Sweet Dreams took about 9 months. “The first 4.5 months was spent coming up with the concept and storyboarding, and the rest of the time was actually building sets, characters, shooting, editing, and doing sound design.”
I also asked Kirsten about stop motion itself, because I know not everyone is entirely familiar with the art. “Stop-motion animation works by taking a series of photographs of something moving incrementally. For example if I had a character, I’d move his body a fraction of an inch, then take a shot… then move him another fraction of an inch and take another shot. Generally speaking, I’d have to take 24 of those shots to make up one second of animation.”
The Sweet Dreams short was comprised almost entirely of edible objects, especially the main characters of the story and also the sets were made of fruits, vegetables and sweets. Knowing what we know now about stop motion (Thank you Kirsten) we can only imagine the effort that went into this production! No wonder it won a special jury award at SXSW film festival!
I also got a chance to ask Kirsten what she likes to do for fun in her down time: “Cook, eat, and go food shopping! I’m a big foodie :) ”
I honestly can’t say I’m shocked by that response.
Please check out Kirsten’s website as well as her blog. And watch Sweet Dreams, I promise you that you’re going to love it as much as we do!
