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Nina Gantz and Renee Zhan “Ride to the Moon” With Dior

Posted on Wednesday, February 11, 2026

Blinkink directors Nina Gantz and Renee Zhan help Dior celebrate the Lunar New Year with a hand-crafted stop-motion charmer inspired by the pioneers of cinema and distinctively voiced by American hip-hop artist 070 Shake.

Nina Gantz and Renee Zhan: “The starting point was about celebrating traditional stage craft, inspired by the Marie Antoinette theater at Versailles. Hand-painted sets, manual mechanisms, and those beautifully theatrical illusions. We embraced the Baroque spirit in everything: visually, technically, and musically.

“Stop-motion was key for all of us because it has an intentional charm; it’s not meant to be too smooth. Everything was filmed in camera, using old theatrical solutions, like creating movement by shifting the sets rather than moving the puppet itself.”

“We embraced the Baroque spirit in everything: visually, technically, and musically.”

From Blinkink: “Inspired by classical cinema, most notably Georges Méliès’ 1902 film Voyage dans la Lune, the film builds around a Lunar New Year story and unfolds as a modern fairy tale told through flamboyant design and playful surrealism.

“True to our passion for in-camera craft, the production embraces old-school theater mechanics: Strings holding up clouds are deliberately visible, trapdoors open in the stage floor, and sheets of translucent fabric become shimmering fountains.

“The sets were entirely hand-painted and constructed, combining flat, painted backdrops with half-2D, half-3D elements. Layered sets, forced perspective and cinematic lighting create depth and spatial richness, allowing audiences to feel fully immersed in the world and its characters.”

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Credits:

Client: Dior

Production: Blinkink
Director: Nina Gantz, Renee Zhan
EP: Josef Byrne
Head of Production: Alex Halley
Producer: Jon Mealing
Production Manager: Sandy Liddle
1st AD: Sandy Liddle
Director of Photography: Malcolm Hadley
1st AC: Toby Goodyear
Gaffer: Pearce Crowley
Electrician: Paulo Fernandes
Runner: Nell Brunton, Louise Esposito
Work Experience: Sandra Bigos
Animator: Andy Biddle, Steve Warne
Animation Rigger: Andy Spradbery
Models Supervisor: Leigh Took
Model Maker: Lauren Murphy, Craig Lynch, Richard Grant, Layla Dudzinska
Sculptor: Wesley Harland
Lead Compositor: John Malcom Moore, Rob Ward
Compositors: Aaron Lampert, Andy Hague, Stephen McNally
Post Producer: Jon Mealing
Post Production Assistant: Molly Turner
Set Dresser/Puppet Maintenance: Lulu Senft
VFX Supervisor: John Malcom Moore, Rob Ward