This is a quite brilliant animated short. It starts out all lovely with a rabbit running through the fields, and turns into a waking nightmare. Really horrible to watch, but still excellent.

From an interview with Run Wrake:

The story is basically a very simple morality tale about greed – the dangers of greed and exploring nature. It came about when I found some 1950’s stickers in a junk shop about 20 years ago. When I was moving the studio out of Soho about 2 years ago, I fond them again in the bottom of the drawer and thought it would be great to make a film out of them. There were about 200 different stickers.

Wrake took these stickers, scanned them into Photoshop and then used After Effects to animate the parts. Quite often working with found images just seems showy, but in this film it works really well to turn, what I believe were always creepy illustrations, into their true nature.

I think I may get a complex about rabbits if I see too many more scary rabbit creations (Watership Down, that episode of Spaced with the art play thing, etc.).

The film can be seen here.

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