Rodrigo Vasquez

Arctic Creatures, a contemporary polar bear journey

Date

2025

Format

Video

Skills
  • Stop-Motion
  • Storyboarding
  • Styleframing

About

Short photomontage animation that playfully visualizes the current displacement of polar bears to human-populated environments in Alaska. The narrative draws from an existing podcast about this complex story.

Styleframes and refined Storyboard

Refined frames showcase high-contrast black-and-white imagery that evokes a vintage feel. The last frame depicts the symbolic intersection of polar bears and human footprints with an additional fleshly red hue.

Initial Storyboard

Early main challenges were to link and depict the encounter between polar bears and humans in thought as a subtle and concise story.