Freaks - animation

This is a fabulous animation/advert by benwest . He created it for a conference of filmmakers. This is what he says on his website (www.benwest.net.au):
"The Australian Directors Guild wanted to promote the 2008 conference with an engaging spot that explored the notion of collaboration. I came up with the idea of filmmakers as freaks ostracized by society growing up and finding each other through the calling of filmmaking. Film makers tend to be pretty precious with fragile egos so the idea stuck. The freak factor, illustrated by different exaggerated features, represents the skills that are peculiar to film craft. The effects for these features involved 3d tracking and photogrammetry that allowed the actors freedom to perform".

I think this video is brilliant. I guess that the idea of creative/talented/unusual people can be seen as freaks too.
And so can all the rest of us.
Great stuff.

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