Surface Dive

2000
8m

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Layers of animation featuring more than 600 sculptures, 200 glass pieces and 2200 drawings evoke an inspiring diving exploration in a freshwater lake in Yucatan.Layers of animation featuring more than 600 sculptures, 200 glass pieces and 2200 drawings evoke an inspiring diving exploration in a freshwater lake in Yucatan.Layers of animation featuring more than 600 sculptures, 200 glass pieces and 2200 drawings evoke an inspiring diving exploration in a freshwater lake in Yucatan.

Director
- Joanna Priestley
Writer
- Joanna Priestley

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7.0/10

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Director
- Joanna Priestley
Writer
- Joanna Priestley

1User review

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- 2 wins

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Over 600 sculptures were made for Surface Dive. First, key shapes were created out of Sculpey and molds were made for each one. Next, 15 to 20 duplicates of each key shape were made out of MagiSculpt. These were sculpted into an animated sequence, sanded, painted with acrylic and varnished. The whole process took about six months.

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8/10

Wow...

I saw this fine short after watching Utopia Parkway, and while this shares a lot of the same forms, colors, and style as Joanna's other work, this one is dazzling in anything as much as complication. There's a lot of stuff going on with sculptures, clay models, paintings, drawings, mirrors, magnifying glasses, water, and so on that it's impossible to keep up with in just one viewing.

Honestly I wouldn't know where to start making this, though it's not anything that I would say, "I wouldn't know where to start figuring this out." This isn't the figure-out type of art, this is the sit back and enjoy, sit for a while and enjoy again, and seriously sit down and enjoy this kind of art. It's really quite... fun! But complicated... very fascinatingly complicated.

--PolarisDiB