The Illustrated Man

The Illustrated Man

TYPE

Short Film

Short Film

ROLE

Design, Direction and Animation

Design, Direction and Animation

SOFTWARE

Cinema 4D, After Effects

Cinema 4D, After Effects

Ray Bradbury's anthology, The Illustrated Man, came into 3D through a collaboration with Malthe Hemmer. The book holds eighteen short stories, all told on the skin of a tattooed carnival worker. He claims a time-traveling woman gave him the ink. Each tattoo carries a story, and the skin never holds still. One theme runs under all of it: technology advances, and merges with the flesh in strange and sinister ways. Bradbury is perhaps best known for Fahrenheit 451. Maxon featured the project on their blog. Music by Dan Weniger, sound effects by Robin Schlochtermeier, illustration by Alice Tams. The ink dries, and the stories tell themselves.