These past few weeks, I’ve been working on a grant application for a new animation project: an adaptation of a very dark and gory fairytale by the Brothers Grimm entitled The Juniper Tree (1812). Features child death, cannibalism, ghost-birds and violent revenge. In short, precisely my sort of thing. The proposed film will be created using paper cuts and articulated paper puppets, all done in a backlit, silhouette style perfect for this early 19th-century dark fairytale. Below is some concept art of the paper cutouts and puppets, shot on my light box.

The red is coloured acetate (actually lighting gels for photography) and the grey is achieved by using regular white, 50 lb. sketching paper. The black silhouettes are 90 lb. black drawing paper.