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i am currently working on some illustrations for a website. this is a cropped & colored version of one of the drawings.

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i had an eye exam today. for the second half of the examination, the doctor applied dilating drops, telling me my eyesight would be "shot" in a few minutes. he wasn't joking! fifteen minutes later, my vision was completely blurred. i finished the exam, and (somehow) rode my bike home. i thought it might be interesting to do a little drawing experiment with this altered state of vision. five hours later, when i could see again, this is what i found...

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Balance : Christoph and Wolfgang Lauenstein (1989)

Balance
by Cornebidouille

"The setting is on a floating platform where a group of evenly and carefully placed men live. Each man is aware that the platform is not stable and in order not to fall to their deaths, they maintain a careful balance of weight to prevent the platform from tipping too far and cause them all to fall. This reasonably harmonious understanding is lost when one man pulls up a heavy trunk. In the ensuing struggle, balance is lost in more than one sense."

won the 1989 academy award for animated short film.

for more great animations:
http://shortanimatedworld.blogspot.com

*note: click on video to see it in full, or you will miss the ending! for some reason it is cut off in this posting.

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