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Welcome to our city - to our world - of books. This is where we live.

A film for 4th Estate Publishers' 25th Anniversary. Produced by Apt Studio and Asylum Films.

The film was produced in stop-motion over 3 weeks in Autumn 2008. Each scene was shot on a home-made dolly by an insane bunch of animators; you can see time-lapse films of each sequence being prepared and shot in our other films.

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  • kateopolis 3 years ago
    fantastic work.
  • Red Foureights 3 years ago
    Absolutely beautiful, truly a delightful 'eyeful'
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  • superselect 3 years ago
    incredible living books
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  • isaacwayton 3 years ago
    this is just incredible. Thanks for making my night so wonderful!
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  • Ricky Grove plus 3 years ago
    What a gem! Sound design, photography, art direction are wonderful. 4th Estate must be incredibly pleased. Excellent. Made my day.
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  • design:related 3 years ago
    Really well done--I'm amazed that you were able to accomplish this in just 3 weeks.
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  • chenchenzi 3 years ago
    i love it~~:)
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  • john 3 years ago
    beautiful
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  • Wonderful and so poetic. My congratulations to the team!
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  • dennisjones 3 years ago
    Great work!
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  • Lorenzo De Leon 3 years ago
    totaly excellent !
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  • Robin Presley 3 years ago
    Now that's Goddess! I always knew that books were living things!
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  • landjugend 3 years ago
    amazing !!
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  • andrerib 3 years ago
    Brilliant work. Very very good.
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  • bookhling 3 years ago
    Lovely! I want to see more.
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  • Tommy Rombouts plus 3 years ago
    Great work! The colors, the detail, the idea, ...
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  • doncrowley 3 years ago
    Hehe! incredible. The other video's as well. What an enormous amount of work and what a result. Congrats to 4th Estate Publishers' 25th Anniversary. Apt studio you rock :)
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  • Much props to you guys, this is stunning work.
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  • ktx 3 years ago
    notable work!
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  • Norteño 3 years ago
    Gorgeous.
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  • Mark D 3 years ago
    Amazing
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  • Juztn plus 3 years ago
    truly fantastic work. This is somehow heart warming :)
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  • Juneteenth Works 3 years ago
    its all been said, but I still think its amazing work.
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  • Serge Verwest 3 years ago
    Great work guys
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  • Serge Verwest 3 years ago
    Great, great,great... chapeau
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  • Barry Wood 3 years ago
    Absolutely exceptional.
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  • ben falk 3 years ago
    thank you all for your kind comments. makes all the hard work worth while.
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  • dsakugawa 3 years ago
    incredible!!!
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  • Myles Thompson plus 3 years ago
    Top.
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  • Craig Goode plus 3 years ago
    Really fantastic!
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  • Mark Burger 3 years ago
    Unbelievably Beautiful!
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  • Josue Salazar plus 3 years ago
    Holy shit! AMAZING work!
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  • anonanony 3 years ago
    Awesome. I really like the birds flying and landing at the end. Beautiful work.
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  • Sylvain Bourjac plus 3 years ago
    good work
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  • DUMAIS plus 3 years ago
    Holy! This is so moody and beautiful that I watch it 3 times in a row. Great!!!
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  • Sambacine 3 years ago
    Breathtaking! Congratulations.
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  • Remi Noell plus 3 years ago
    Beautiful, everything's goes so well together.
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  • Arthus Belliqueux 3 years ago
    Superbe ! A great idea !
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  • Jonathan Roulston 3 years ago
    I'm so happy I got the chance to see this.
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  • Amazing!
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  • Olaf Henze plus 3 years ago
    absolutely great and unique, i love it!
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  • Rafano 3 years ago
    Really nice!
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  • Tari Akpodiete 3 years ago
    just fantastic!
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  • Eglair Quicolli 3 years ago
    gorgeous....nice music too!
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  • elgris 3 years ago
    Really amazing!!!
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  • Valerio Fiandra 3 years ago
    formidabile e poetico.

    bravi. grazie
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  • Wombat123 3 years ago
    This is awesome.
    If you wanna see more of this go to vimeo.com/asylumfilms
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  • MABONA ORIGAMI 3 years ago
    mind boggeling!
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  • amankerstudio plus 3 years ago
    amazinggggg...!!!!
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  • rakideo 3 years ago
    just superb
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  • grunch 3 years ago
    simply spectacular, congratulations on the job so thorough that they have done.
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  • dani cruz 3 years ago
    amazing. it has a whole dream look.
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  • Joe Moya plus 3 years ago
    Excellent work...
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  • Denis Thibault 3 years ago
    Fantastic ! so many details, I have to look at it again and again to see them all :-)
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  • juan hernandez 3 years ago
    great work this is one of the most interesting animations seen on the past 7 months great visual great music great details.
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  • veronica whit 3 years ago
    that was awesome
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  • asian lednev 3 years ago
    Fantastic, really!
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  • Andy Maxwell 3 years ago
    Amazing Amazing. That really made me wish I could read.
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  • Cory O'Brien 3 years ago
    This is just fantastic! I couldn't pass up the chance to feature it on my blog: thefutureofads.com/2009/01/02/this-is-where-we-live-captures-the-imagination/
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  • XM 3 years ago
    too much clipping & paper for a pefect result!
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  • Brian Yap 3 years ago
    elegant I think is the best word.
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  • dannyjelinek plus 3 years ago
    Wow! This is amazing!
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  • Fabian Rios 3 years ago
    that's a great job
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  • Fabian Rios 3 years ago
    it's been 2 days and sometimes im still wathing
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  • Dan Valentine plus 3 years ago
    Wow! Amazing work.
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  • Aziz Kocanaogullari plus 3 years ago
    Brilliant!
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  • gsmith 3 years ago
    Fantastic work!
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  • thinkpublic plus 3 years ago
    This has totally made our morning, simply wonderful : )
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  • Adriana de Barros 3 years ago
    Lovely video!

    It will be featured today at Scene 360 video channel and on the front pages of Scene360.com and illusion.scene360.com
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  • Diane Stafford 3 years ago
    This is magical - thank you!
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  • Nikita Kryuchkov 3 years ago
    Молодцы! :-)
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  • Steve Kovalesky 3 years ago
    That's so awesome. It made me think of teeny little super guy.
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  • Nicola Di Marco 3 years ago
    can't belive ho fantastic is
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  • That's nice... ;-))
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  • Samu Ainesmaa 3 years ago
    Pure gold. GOLD I say!
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  • jon_madrid 3 years ago
    Gracias por este trabajo. Impresionante.
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  • WOW... that's it, just WOW.
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  • Cebrita 3 years ago
    OMG! :) beauuuuuuutiful!
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  • Vedran Strelar 3 years ago
    great work! :)
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  • beshart plus 3 years ago
    Every time I look at it I discover beautiful new things... speechless.
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  • samiya 3 years ago
    sAMIYA
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  • Alina Zhak 3 years ago
    Inspiring! Such a creative piece of art.
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  • Armando Ello 3 years ago
    This is uniqeu stopmotion, thanx for the amazing amount of work for a stunning 3 minutes!
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  • Sergey Zeinalov 3 years ago
    Oh! unique video! I has lost the gift of speech! )))
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  • Nuto4ka 3 years ago
    fantastic!!!=))
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  • Denis Larocque 3 years ago
    Votre VIMEO est jolie, fantastique, joyeux, lumineux et plein
    d'espoir. BRAVO À VOUS !!!!!!!!
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  • Meinert Hansen 3 years ago
    Stunning work! I want to walk through that marvelous world you created. Bravo!
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  • Paco Gomez Vega 3 years ago
    I want to be part of these greatness,.!!! and like everybody here, i agree with the magnificent work, you guys did,.!!
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  • Frederico Machuca 3 years ago
    everything is just beautiful! great work!
    and i love the little making offs!
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  • lucy pepper plus 3 years ago
    and that only took three weeks? this is so gorgeous.
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  • →Zac Boyet← 3 years ago
    lovely video great job!
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  • perfect.
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  • inna b 3 years ago
    amazing
    we felt like eating chocolate chips cookies while watching it...
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  • ranran 3 years ago
    so so amazing just magical!
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  • Simon Prager 3 years ago
    wonderful!
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  • Alex Amelines 3 years ago
    stunning!

    I would like to add this to our vimeo channel:

    Animation Muse
    vimeo.com/channels/muse
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  • Candy Gourlay 3 years ago
    beautiful! did it really only take three weeks?
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  • stml 3 years ago
    100th Comment. Had to be done. Thanks for all the love folks.

    (And Candy - yup, but they did sleep on the set: 25thestate.com/stills/ )
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  • Alp C 2 years ago
    piece of art!
    Really liked it.
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  • DONGEDY 2 years ago
    Gorgeous ! i like it !
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