Zoopraxiscope

Festival Trailer

A predator dashes after its prey, following its constantly changing silhouette through a spinning world. Destined to repeat this chase infinitely, as they are merely running figures in a praxinoscope.

This 50-seconds clip was designed as a promotional trailer for the Festival of Animated Film Stuttgart, and was selected as main trailer for 2010. It was nominated for an Adobe Design Achievement Award and was featured by the prestigous design magazines STASH and MOTIONOGRAPHER.

Written & Directed & Animated by
Johannes Schiehsl

Producer
Johannes Schiehsl

Music & Sounddesign
Axel Huber & Philipp Noll

Consultants
Jakob Schuh & Johannes Weiland

Head of Institute
Prof. Thomas Haegele

Coordination
Sabine Hirtes

System Administration
John Holtz, Viet Nguyen, Sebastian Ellebracht

Digital Postproduction
Joachim Genannt, Michael Schott, Andrea Hofmann

Thanks to
Emanuel Strixner, Julia Ocker, Jan Lachauer, Louis Tardivier,
David Maas, Niall Laverty, Harald Siepermann, Uwe Saeger

A Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
production winter term 2008/09

AWARDS
«Best Animation» OMFV Award 2010, Switzerland
«Best of the Fest Finalist» Red Stick Festival 2010
Finalist for Adobe Design Achievement Award 2009

SCREENINGS
Icograda World Design Congress 2009, Beijing China
SIGGRAPH Asia 2010, South Korea
CICDAF 2009, China
SICDAF 2010, South Korea
Cinanima 2010, Portugal
Anima Mundi 2010, Brazil
Animafest Zagreb 2010, Croatia
AniFest 2010, Czech Republic
Animanima 2009, Serbia
Anima Brussels Animation Film Festival 2010, Belgium
Anim'est 2009, Romania
CineMAiubit 2009, Romania
Filmschau BW 2009, Germany
Flicks International Student Short Film Festival 2010, Netherlands
E-Magiciens Festival 2009, France
KROK International Animated Film 2010, Russia
Monstra Lisbon Animated Film Festival 2010, Portugal
Playground Festival 2010, Netherlands
Tehran International Animation Festival 2011, Iran
ReAnimania'09, Armenia
Zlinsky Pes 2010, Czech Republic

featured on MOTIONOGRAPHER
featured on STASH #71
featured at STUTTGARTS INCREDIBLE WORLD OF ANIMATION
featured at SHELLEYS EYE CANDY