Buried in the Backyard

A series of Opens for multiple spin-offs as part of the Buried in the Backyard series. This was made in-house and with real dirt, snow, and sand (check below for behind the scenes)

Art Director: Nathalie De La Gorce
Designer/Animator: Marina Antonowicz

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Behind the Scenes

For the first few opens that were made (backyard, woods, sand), we needed to deliver these in the middle of COVID lockdown with a limited budget and tight turn-around. I don’t have a professional camera but I have an iphone, dirt from my garden, a blowdryer, and an almost green yoga mat. So I set up my own little shoot with limited materials! We spent $0 on it.

For the snow opening which came a bit later, we were thankfully in office by that time. I had help from our shoots team to set up the lights and then bought some $8 fake snow on amazon. Gotta say it was one of the silliest things blowing dirt and snow over and over again and getting funny looks from my roommate and coworkers.

Everything was comped up in After Effects!