A boy called Zeze pays a peculiar visit to his friend Mercedes. Hesitant to explain the reason behind his short visit, Mercedes challenges Zeze to a race over the carpet on the condition that he needs to stay if he loses. If he wins, however, she'll listen to his reasons. Throughout the game, they race together with their imaginary friends through obstacles that gradually become life-threatening, until Mercedes finds out about the bitter truth behind her friend's visit.
ZEZE & MERCEDES is a 2D animated short around 8-10 minutes about the friendship between two children. The film also includes some mixed media elements such as machine learning from my Yuru Kyara project. (See Z&M x Yurukyara 3: pre-production for some of these machine learning experiments and its implementation in the film: Z&M x Yurukyara3: production.) |
Graduation Film 2022 @ WdKA
A collaboration between: Başak Kirici Director Ming Stotijn Art-Director Teodora Tiţescu Line-Producer / Concept Artist / Animator Corina Bojan (VFX) Animator Lok Thong Siu (Character) Animator |