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This student animation captures the torment of a sleepless night
Created as part of their final project, a young team of animators illustrate the restless imagination of someone trying to get to sleep 26/02/2021 3:35 pm
“The idea came from a crowded city in southern China,” says animator Yuanqing Cai. “And the story is quite simple. One night, a man wants to sleep, but his roommates keep making noise. All. The. Time.”
Titled Coffin, the animation Cai has created with Nathan Crabot, Houzhi Huang, Mikolaj Janiw, Mandimby Lebon, and Théo Tran Ngoc, form the group’s graduation film from Parisian animation school Gobelins. “In the beginning, it was just the three of us, Mikolaj and Nathan and I. We had an idea at the beginning not to deliberately pursue a huge story or big philosophical stuff because we only had a few minutes,” explains Cai. “It wasn’t realistic, and we weren’t really able to shock everyone with an epic story. So we preferred to focus on the