Jeanette Lee animates a futuristic city for Dewy Sinatra's In My Bubble video
Music: American animator Jeanette Lee borrowed the shapes of Tokyo's Nakagin Capsule Tower to create a science-fiction urban landscape for Dewy Sinatra's In My Bubble music video.
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The film opens on an anonymous landscape of skyscrapers, as their lights turn on in rhythm to the London musician's track.
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Although designed to be an ambiguous futuristic location, Lee told Dezeen she borrowed on Chinese and Japanese architectural elements, as well as referencing sci-fi films including Blade Runner and Ghost in the Shell.
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A bubble-shaped vehicle is seen driving down the road carrying a sad-looking dog character, which joins a lane of other identical cars.
"I wanted the dog to essentially be a bubble – aimlessly moving around until eventually floating away, albeit with a lunch break in between," Lee told Dezeen.
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"The bubble doesn't burst because there's a momentum of isolation, the dog goes from being among other dogs to voluntarily being entirely alone. Solitude is the ultimate bubble."
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The film cuts to a tower with spherical windows reminiscent of Tokyo's Nakagin Capsule Tower – a 1972 block by architect Kisho Kurokawa, with cubic sections featuring single porthole windows.
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"For a while I kept thinking about bubbles, AKA circles and enclosed spaces," Lee said.
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"Enter Nakagin. It just fit so well. Otherwise that was the only specific building I looked at. But I actually studied architecture for my undergraduate degree before switching over to animation, so it'll always be a major source of influence and inspiration."
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A similar dog character is revealed behind each of the windows, before the film moves to a nightclub also featuring circular speakers and doors.
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The main dog character is shown through a round window eating ramen noodles, before returning home past the flashing lights of the city – once more in his bubble car.
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Production on the film took two and a half months, with backgrounds made in Photoshop before being animated in Toon Boom Harmony and composited in Premiere.
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Lee told Dezeen the film doesn't have a specific narrative, but the repeated circular motifs are deliberate.
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"The whole idea of everyone moving around in their bubbles is very relatable, and also very isolating," Lee commented.
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"So that became the jumping off point for my brainstorming – everyone alone together. As for the design, the repetition within the song translated into the repetition of visual elements."