Store Mosse is a national park in the south of Sweden and is the largest marsh area in southern Sweden. It is so wast that when you enter it you get the same feeling as if you were on the sea or on top of a mountain. It feels endless. The marsh is covered with wooden paths. If you take a step or two on the ground you soon discover why. Something the dog soon found out when we where there to visit. It is very beautiful and full of life, birds and insects and just like in the mountains, small birch trees and thousands and thousands of beautiful tiny flowers.
We went there to get som referens photos and inspiration for the contents of the exhibition at the park as we were comissioned by Kistone to make both some animations for the digital part of the exhibition and some construction work.
Kistone is a company that we had the pleasure of working with on different projects. They make design and storytelling for museums and exhibitions. As a part of the digital displays of the exhibition they made an elevator with a screen built in, that took you on a fictive journey down throught the marsh, telling both the actual stories of the people who worked there and its history but it also demonstrated the difficulties surrounding all practical use of a marsh creating a hypotethical story of what it would have been like if other historical persons and creatures had tried to settle down there.
The animations were all hand drawn, but with a limited palette and very blocked movements we managed to keep the production speed and still get that handrawn feeling.
To see the full display and the journey you will have to visit the exhibition at Store mosse which I highly recommend. The animations below are just extracts, without sound to show you our part of the process.
A quick glimpse of what it would have looked like if there would have been mammoths at the marshes. Or if Nefertiti decided to build a pyramid here. A complete disaster off course.
Some initial sketches that included humans and a rough animation with mamoths jumping around.
The part with Nefertiti trying to build a pyramid on the marsh. It all goes sour and the mosquitos are everywhere off course.
It also proves the point that if you are going there in the summer, it is a good idea to choose a windy day.
Combining business and pleasure. With our son and the dog a beautiful summers day at the marshes.