As blue changes to yellow, orange, and red, steam clouds roam around a window and take shape, with the sunset as their audience. 



I created this for Resavoir’s new song using a handheld steamer, over two days with perfectly clear skies. A couple frames pass for every one synth note, creating a feeling of change as gradual as the songs, and the sunsets. This video came from a desire to make animation that would incorporate a time-lapse of the setting sun, which meant animating with a hard time constraint. As the sun goes down, it hits the window from a more extreme angle, highlighting and colouring the steam differently. 



This was completed on the top floor of my studio building in Montreal, in front of some busy elevators.

Director, animator: Nik Arthur

Check out the other two videos I made for Resavoir, here: