Director/animator Cris Wiegandt and designer/illustrator Bárbara Fonseca in Berlin: “This project was done while we shared studio space and was inspired by a mutual curiosity in what a collaboration between us could result in as well as a need to get outside of comfort zones and expand artistic horizons.

“Mid-century aesthetics and bright colors are mixed with 3D animation (characters modeled by Hugo Morais) and come together to bring us to the underwater world of the hatchetfish.”

Watch the animatic vs final animation:
 

 

Client: TED-ed
Educator: Philip Renaud, Kenneth Kostel
Director of Production: Gerta Xhelo
Editorial Director: Alex Rosenthal
Producer: Bethany Cutmore-Scott
Associate Editorial Producer: Cella Wright
Production Coordinator: Abdallah Ewis
Script Editor: Alex Gendler
Fact-Checker: Jennifer Nam

Director/animator: Cris Wiegandt
Art Director: Bárbara Fonseca
Storyboard: Cris Wiegandt, Bárbara Fonseca
3D Modeler Hugo Morais
Compositor Cris Wiegandt

Sound design: Claudia Ioana Vasiliu
Narrator: Addison Anderson