We are making a film!

Adam and Erin Taylor, the creative team behind The Hair Hungry Heaver, are teaming up on a new and exciting project - How to Catch a Tiger Cub.  Erin is an accomplished illustrator with more than a decade of experience bringing stories and characters to life, with clients from Disney to Oxford University Press.  Adam is a talented stop-motion animator and director credited in animation on films and television shows such as The Missing Link, The Shivering Truth, and the upcoming Wendell and Wild.

How to Catch a Tiger Cub is a story inspired by a medieval bestiary painting of the same name.  Vanity is just as prominent and important a subject now as in medieval times and so we set out to tell a timeless tale using a modern tone and visuals.



A synopsis of our story:

Life is beautiful for mother tigress and her young cub until a cunning trapper enters their jungle.  When given a mirror, the tigress sees her own beauty and is captured in her vanity and temporarily lifted from her burdens.  When he leaves, he takes the mirror and the mother is left wanting more. Returning, the trapper takes the tiger cub and easily wards off mother tigress with a snare of many mirrors.  She is trapped by her own vanity and has lost all that was important to her until her baby's cry reawakens her.

We will be drawing directorial inspiration from Kurt Weiler and his 1970s films 

Der Apfel and Heldensage.  The simple shape language, underplayed yet clever visual humor, and stage style decor will be key features.


Filmdetails: Der Apfel (1969) - DEFA - Stiftung

Heldensage (S) (1985) - Filmaffinity

Comments

  1. EllenJuly 12, 2020 at 8:38 AM

    Powerful team of artists. I am sure this will be a great project.

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