This is for the birds.

This animation is the intro to Mirrorball, an event at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.

http://www.nexusproductions.com/wall

The animation features birds made using collage. The birds are made of anything from a simple pattern, to currency, to a record. In addition, different materials are used for different species of birds. The hole in the center of a record is used as an eye for the bird. What appears to be newspaper clippings folded up into a beak, has squinting eyes on it, which make it look like an owl.

As the music of the into plays, the birds move and look around to the beats of the music.

As the birds look around, one can see the materials themselves are shifting the angles they are viewed at, making the birds seem that much more lifelike.

By the end of the intro, all of the birds are dancing on screen at once, and it is difficult to follow just one bird and see how it follows the music.

I can only imagine how long it took to sync everything up.