The inspiration for this short piece came from a skull of a crow I received as a present. It was a beautiful object and gave me the opportunity to study the bird's head by sketching it while having the three dimensional reference in my hand, which for an animator is always a great pleasure. Later I looked at those sketches and draw a girl which to me had the spirit of the crow and then I decided to make them morph into each other. 
I use a standard set-up for this kind of animation. A camera stand, a camera, a light box (this is my preference) and a computer to record the captured photos and put them together later in video format. So each frame is painted by oil paint on a sheet of glass, that I placed on my light box and a photo is taken from it. Then I paint the next frame and take another photo.  The images are captured by a software called Dragonframe and then exported as video by video editing software.
Beside the subject matter, this technique of work, besides it being labour intensive, is the technique I am truly passionate about. 

The Crow


Shamhat is a collaboration between d i b u k, Brazilian singer and musician (https://soundcloud.com/lea_cze) and Neda Ahmadi, Iranian visual artist , telling the story of the Babylonian priestess, Shamhat, an influential woman character in the Epic of Gilgamesh and our take on it.
 d i b u k with her ancient yet futuristic mix of vocal and electronic music set up the atmosphere for a audiovisual performance accompanied by sand painting projected in front of the audience.

The project is well developed and performed few times and now we are looking for venues, interested in hosting us to share our audiovisual experience.



Shamhat (a sand painting project)

Hi, 
I am a freelance animator, specialized in ink, sand, clay and paint on glass animation.
 Berlin resident since half a year ago and after a joyful music video project, commissioned by a great singer, songwriter now I am once more available for music video commissioned work, collaboration and assistance jobs.
Please have a look at my latest showreel and hit me up with you ideas.

Neda

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