How we made the animation sequence / The historical recreation
All of the dolls used in the animation sequence were bought in the indigenous markets in Chiapas, Mexico. Every time we past through we picked up a couple and put them aside.
Zapatista dolls
They are very varied in size and design, all hand made and very beautiful.
Zapatista dolls
Zapatistas on horse back and other animals
Soldiers
Indigenous worker
We had the dolls, so now we needed props, we stocked up on lollipop sticks, extra long pipe cleaners, hot-glue and pins. And we got cracking.
Hot glue, lollipop sticks and colored Foam made up the majority of the background props.
We used pencil shaving, and wine bottle corks as rocks and plants.
We used matches to make bushes.
We used tiny Post-it notes as flower.
We commandeered a sofa and turned it into the base for the set.
We used lots of household items to create the larger props for the set, such as a tea flask, an up-turned bowl, a cup and a sugar bowl. We also used clothes and scarves to act as the mountains and hills in the mid-ground.
Originally only meaning to use a small section of the room it ended up being a no go area for nearly two weeks.
After two weeks of intense animation, we had over 16 GBs of frames and paul was suffering from a very bad back. It took a further two or three weeks to put all the frames together and create the final animation sequences.
