Motion
Out of Sync
A surreal claymation stop-motion capstone short, built around emotional overwhelm, sudden disruption, and a handmade studio identity.
- Year
- 2025
- Discipline
- Motion
- Client
- Tinderbox Studios
- Course
- GDES 490 Capstone
- Role
- Concept, stop-motion direction, clay modeling, visual identity
- Visit project
- tinderboxkw.com ↗
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Out of Sync is my GDES 490 graduation project, a surreal stop-motion short film created under Tinderbox Studios, a neurodivergent-led animation space.
The film is rooted in the feeling of emotional overload: when the world moves at a normal pace, but internally everything feels too loud, too fast, and slightly wrong. I wanted that disruption to show through the whole system, from the clay character and set pieces to the broken type, paper textures, production boards, and jittery visual identity.
The project became both a short film and a small studio world. Tinderbox Studios gave the work a voice beyond one animation, with its own logo, poster, website direction, social presence, storyboard language, and rough handmade texture. The claymation process kept the project physical: small sets, hand-built props, frame-by-frame tests, and imperfect motion that made the chaos feel personal.
Scope: capstone concept, stop-motion tests, character and set building, storyboard, poster, website direction, and studio identity.
