The Twittering Machine

Описание: A short animation film based on Paul Klee's painting "Twittering Machine" (1922).

The lights go off in a Paul Klee exhibition. Suddenly, one of the paintings comes to life. Four little birds that had been sitting on top of a strange machine begin to sing a clanky tune. After a while, the machine breaks, and the birds stop their performance. As they return to their position, they reform the painting in its original state.

The animation is an exercise in foley sounds, created for the SFX course of the MSc Animation program of the University of West Attica, under the guidance of the tutor Esthir Lemi (PhD).

The original image was downloaded from Wikipedia and upscaled using Stable Diffusion. All other textures and paintings were also created with Stable Diffusion.

The painting was processed in Photoshop and was separated on its different actors/elements.
The animation was made in After Effects using Duik Bassel. The compositing and final montage was also done in After Effects.

Most of the sounds were recorded at Artracks Recording Studios, with additional sounds recorded using a field recorder. The mixing and mastering was done in Cakewalk.

This animation is for educational and research purposes.