Abubilla

Festivals

Selections and awards

Chaniartoon - Official selection - Abubilla

Zinetxiki Zinemaldia - Official selection - Abubilla

Stop Trik - Official selection - Abubilla

Mostra Lugares de Culturas - Official selection - Abubilla

Divercine - Official selection - Abubilla

Cinanima - Official selection - Abubilla

Calibelula - Official selection - Abubilla

Linoleum - Official selection - Abubilla

Festival Cartón - Official selection - Abubilla

Babul Eco Film Fest - Official selection - Abubilla

CINE MIMMOS - International Puppet Film Festival in Sintra - Official selection - Abubilla

TAF - Thessaloniki Animation Festival - Official selection - Abubilla

Abubilla has currently been selected for 30 festivals around the world.

Ecofestivalpesio (Italy, 2024) - Official selection
Babul Eco Film Fest (India, 2024) - Official selection
FICAS - International Environmental and Sustainability Film Festival (Portugal, 2024) - Official selection
SMOF - Festival Internacional de Stop Motion Our Fest (Argentina, 2024) - Official selection
International Film Festival in the Mountains (Colombia, 2024) - Official selection
Mostra Lugares De Cultura (Brazil, 2024) - Official selection
International Children and Youth film festival "Dreamer" (Kazajstan, 2024) - Official selection
Certamen De Cortometrajes El Pecado (Spain, 2024) - Official selection animation
Divercine - Festival Internacional de cine para niñas y niños (Uruguay, 2024) - Official selection
Picknic Film Festival - Santander International Film Festival (Spain, 2024) - Official selection
Fantoche International Animation Film Festival (Switzerland, 2024) - Official selection
Linoleum Contemporary Animation and Media Art Festival (Ukraine, 2024) - Official selection
Festival De Cine: Infancia Y Adolescencia (Colombia, 2024) - Official selection
T-Short Animated Film Festival (Germany, 2024) - Official selection
CINE MIMMOS - International Puppet Film Festival in Sintra (Portugal, 2024) - Official selection
Chaniartoon - International Comic & Animation Festival (Greece, 2024) - Official selection
StopTrik International Film Festival (Slovenia, 2024) - Official selection
MANIFEST - Mafra Animation Film Festival (Portugal, 2024) - Official selection
Calibélula - Festival Internacional de Cine Infantil y Juvenil (Colombia, 2024) - Official selection
FESCIGU - Festival de Cine Comprometido de Guadalajara (Spain, 2024) - Official selection
Animest - Bucharest International Animation Fest (Romania, 2024) - Official selection
TAF - Thessaloniki Animation Festival (Greece, 2024) - Official selection
Ekotopfilm (Slovakia, 2024) - Official selection
The Chico Independent Film Festival 2024 (USA, 2024) - Official selection
ANIMUR - Khabarovsk International Animation Film Festival (Russia, 2024) - Official selection
SUNCINE: Environmental film festival (Spain, 2024) - MONARCA selection
CINANIMA - International Animated Film Festival of Espinho (Portugal, 2024) - Official selection
Festival Cartón - Festival Internacional de Cortos de Animación (Argentina, 2024) - Official selection
Aguilar Film Festival (Spain, 2024) - Official selection
Festival Internacional de Cine Infantil y Juvenil - Zinetxiki Zinemaldia (Spain, 2024) - Official selection

Posters

Four different posters

Film stills

A stop motion animation

Preproduction

A world of paper

The paper conveys the fragility of a world that can easily be destroyed and the water colors give each frame a delicate appearance. A paper forest where we made 200 miniature pine trees, a bunch of trees through which animals run, animals that seem to be made with origami and an almost life-size paper hoopoe, which allows a lot of movements. We built a big trunk with a nest where the hoopoe hatches its eggs, mountains, forest floors, a leaf that will be animated as if it were blown by the wind and a beautiful moon.

Production

Frame to frame animating

The project has been animated with the stop motion technique. We were looking for a realistic animation and camera movements in travelling and handheld camera. The animals have been animated in chroma key and then inserted into the scene with postproduction.

Rafael Vidal Rafa with his 200 trees built

Project Description

Abubilla is a music video of Ajayu Dúo’s song made in stop motion animation with everything built with paper and colored with watercolor.

Abubilla is a bird that lives happily in the Maravilla forest with all the animals. But one day the hand of man endangers his environment and he talks to the moon so that together they can sow life into his world.

Project Details

Work

Progress | 100%

Created by

Rafael Vidal & Julián Gómez

Technique

Stop motion animation

Genre

Music video

Duration

2 min 44 sec

Format

Digital 4K - Aspect ratio 16:9

Music

Ajayu Dúo

Release date

Oct 28, 2023

Client

Ajayu Dúo

Skills

Art design
Character design
Stop motion animation
Props design