The first episode of “Who are you?”- the column where Blossom’s creative minds freely describe themselves – is by Matteo Mari. This is how a particularly sensitive motion designer answered the simple question: who are you, really?
Born in 1993, Matteo Mari is one of the motion designers who has been animating Blossom’s Media House for several years. It’s not really clear why everyone calls him Mario. When posed the question “Who are you?”, his answer came in the form of an original, evocative and poetic, yet highly technical short film.
An existential story in 3D animation made all the more remarkable due to an astounding technique: Matteo’s use of a 2D animation program.
For those of you less familiar with this process, we’ll try to break it down for you. To understand how each scene was constructed, you have to imagine how Matteo built each of the three-dimensional objects by assembling two-dimensional layers, much like stacking a deck of playing cards. Or folding a square with six faces drawn on paper into an actual cube.
In this experiment, Matteo dealt with thousands of levels of After Effects (some say there were as many as 3,200!) and continuous challenges, which clearly got his creative juices flowing. Seeing really is believing.