From poem to animation: Now I Am Paper

I remember: a gentler sound

The forest rustling in the rain

Leaves were swirling all around

I heard soft footsteps up the lane

So starts a poem I wrote, where the narrator is an old tree longing for the little girl who used to climb up his trunk and nestle between his branches. Here are two opposite pages of the book. Then, for each verse, I drew the letters (in perspective) on a 'paper leaf' that floated in a 'puddle' in the top of the left hand side page: 

And here, then, is the animation of all these pages.

The animation of Now I Am Paper took three months for me to complete.

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