Painted paper layers
A paper theatre of painted plates: every sky, hill, street and prop is its own sheet of hand-painted, cut or torn paper, and code moves them past each other at their own depths, each sheet casting a soft shadow on the one behind.
- How it is made
- Drawn in code
- Cost
- Part drawn, part generated
- Mood
- dreamy
- Texture
- paper grain
- Motion
- moving camera
- Good for
- music video
The recipe
8 rules and 7 colours, written as one block.
Paste it to Claude.
Members copy the recipe as one block. Claude, or any coding agent, draws this look from it.
Looks that sit near it
- Cut paper with depthA paper diorama filmed by a moving camera: every piece is textured card with a lit cut edge, casting a soft shadow on the layer behind. Scenes change like a pop-up book, folding flat and springing up around the character.
- Coloured paper silhouettesMatte coloured paper cut flat and lit from the front, with soft drop shadows and four colours a frame. People are profile silhouettes in one colour each, jointed like puppets. Here her silhouette fills with night sky and the clouds inside it carry her children's profiles.
- Sculpted shadowbox reliefA deep box of sculpted pastel pieces at dawn, filmed by a camera that slides across it: a sun made of lit windows rises over stepped hills, trees bloom rosette by rosette, a train of beads rolls along piping between two portholes. Every piece is cut in tiers so it reads as rounded clay, and casts a soft shadow on what sits behind it.
- Junkyard collageTorn paper, newsprint and tin, moving in stop motion.