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As simple as it looks.
The whole video is hand drawn frame by frame - markers on paper.

facebook.com/wecutcorners, wecutcorners.net, delphilabel.com/the-shop
And don't miss impressive making of the video:
kijekadamski.blogspot.com/2011/09/creating-exciting-things-may-as-well-be.html
Reverse side version: vimeo.com/31952734

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  • mpared plus 4 months ago
    superb!!! Its up at thecuriousbrain.com/ well done!
  • Kijek / Adamski 4 months ago
    Thank you all for great response and sharing the video.
  • Dayle Witter 3 months ago
    This is by far one of the most amazing things I've ever watched! And this was the right song!! So deep and full of messages..Ace.
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  • Mdhamiri á Nkemi 4 months ago
    I approve of this.
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  • sorbetes 4 months ago
    i did not undertand the making of the video? why is the guy covered in blankets?
  • Kijek / Adamski 4 months ago
    So it was dark enough that he could see preceding frame on the lightbox. But honestly - the making process was so obvious and boring that this additional short meant to be rather a joke. We were drawing most of the animation at night anyway, so no blankets were needed.
  • sorbetes 4 months ago
    that makes sense :D
    but i wanted to see how he draws the lines and shapes :(
    the animation is really great and i was hoping if i can learn anything int he making of the video :(
    anyway, cheers!
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  • Eva Felten 4 months ago
    Wow...cool.
    How many pictures you had to draw and how many time you needed to continue the whole video?
  • Kijek / Adamski 4 months ago
    Approximately 1850 drawings in about two months.
  • hmi 4 months ago
    Incredible
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  • Lea Nagano 4 months ago
    good job! must have been crazy work to draw everything. I am doing some simple rotoscope sometimes and always it's hell... but you are always looking forward to the result :)
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  • AlternativePub.tv plus 4 months ago
    impressive!!!
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  • 05studio plus 4 months ago
    very impressive artworks! brilliant!!
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  • paul donnellon 4 months ago
    great piece, really like the watery animation and the drawn lens distortions.
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  • VITAL plus 4 months ago
    Great concept, and fun to see something we have not already seen! Song is killer too! Thanks guys.
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  • Feingut 4 months ago
    Simply awesome!! Thanks!
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  • Saint-Nazaire 4 months ago
    Amazing Everything!
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  • Eoghan Kidney 4 months ago
    fantastic stuff
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  • Franck Deron plus 4 months ago
    excellent! as usual...
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  • The Panda Rabbit 4 months ago
    wow!
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  • vvv 4 months ago
    Great stuff !
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  • Damien Rigolet plus 4 months ago
    Good work. Posted on
    oanim.com

    Thanks for sharing!
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  • dunun 4 months ago
    Oh yeah :)
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  • Simon Reichenbach 4 months ago
    Impressive, posted at Love Motion vimeo.com/channels/183247
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  • Meinardas Animator 4 months ago
    Fantastic!!!!
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  • Katie Armstrong staff 4 months ago
    So fluid! Beautifully done, wow.
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  • Inspiroo 4 months ago
    Doskonałe!!! Idealny duet :) Wrzucone na Inspiroo:
    inspiroo.net/articles/details/id/1155
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  • fonti 4 months ago
    very Plympton! great line! surrealistic.
    like a lot
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  • Gabriel Franco plus 4 months ago
    lovely!
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  • Claudio Salas plus 4 months ago
    Beautiful!
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  • RUFFMERCY plus 4 months ago
    ..stunning
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  • Elias Stern 4 months ago
    Gorgeous work. I want that scarf.

    Shared it on Totes-Sick-Amation.tumblr.com
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  • Nuno Barbosa plus 4 months ago
    Beautiful!
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  • Ashton Lewsey 4 months ago
    This is absolutely stunning! I'm doing something similar for my 3rd year project... can I inbox you some questions?
    Also, love the making of! Hah :D
  • Kijek / Adamski 4 months ago
    Go ahead.
    And thank you!
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  • Scott Ferguson 4 months ago
    Absolutely Fantastic!!! The idea is brilliant and the execution masterful! The way you do the moving fluid water is one of the best things in animation I have ever seen! Thxs for this!
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  • DUMAIS plus 4 months ago
    Holy shit no kidding!
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  • Livio Rajh plus 4 months ago
    Beautiful, reflecting the right stuff, was a pleasure to hear and to see...
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  • Ayhan Cebe 4 months ago
    love!.. how can you not..
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  • Salva Gimenez 4 months ago
    must have been a lot of work & fun!Well done!
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  • Sean MacPherson 4 months ago
    Great work!
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  • Mateo C R 4 months ago
    wow! amazing work!
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  • EYE ON ZION pro 4 months ago
    Lots of wows and you deserve it - also very refreshing to see the simple animation technique come out so beautifully.
    I have a few ideas that I put on the shelf but now I am beginning to think they are possible upon seeing your work. Thank you for inspiration to aim higher!
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  • Rick Horton 4 months ago
    Is it really so simple? I think full animation in 2D is more skillful than 3D sometimes. It is very refreshing to see something not dependent on heavy compositing and rigging, and blah, blah.... I prefer this any day.
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  • Jay Quercia 4 months ago
    truley excellent
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  • Valentina 4 months ago
    Pretty cool!
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  • Nicola Smanio plus 4 months ago
    wow, wow, wow!
    mostlyhandmadethings.com/we-cut-corners-pirates-life
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  • bl0m5t3r 4 months ago
    amazing! excellent job!
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  • Dax Schaffer 4 months ago
    Simply breathtaking. The colorful blanket blowing in the wind and the distorted geometric shapes exploding really sent it home for me.

    Hope to create a short this beautiful some day :) Please keep making wonderful art.
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  • Bruno Fujii 4 months ago
    Wow! Perfect!!!

    The making of is great! Can you please tell me the music?
  • Kijek / Adamski 4 months ago
    "It Never Entered My Mind" by Miles.
    It is ambient recording though.
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  • Nasim Rezapour 4 months ago
    this is excellent! great job!
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  • indieanimator 4 months ago
    Great piece of art and animation. We have posted you on indieanimator.com as animation of the day.
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  • Feel Good Lost plus 4 months ago
    Video of the year. Wowza!
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  • Fabio Mariani 4 months ago
    Fine and creative and poetry.
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  • Consultoria Inc. plus 4 months ago
    I love this! Pirates life for me :)
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  • Cestmir Peltan 4 months ago
    This is Beautiful.
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  • anka 4 months ago
    Omg/ it's spectacular!
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  • Joel smith 4 months ago
    Wonderful animation!!! The song, not so much.
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  • mccall keller 4 months ago
    hey this is beautiful.. i'm just a young artist in high school, how could i learn to do something like this?
  • Kijek / Adamski 4 months ago
    Don't pay your internet bills for two months. Wait until it's disconnected and then you are ready to start some serious project of your own.
  • Travis Schmidt 3 months ago
    classic
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  • bernadene varty 4 months ago
    incredible
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  • Eric Chaney 4 months ago
    how long did it take to put together all of the animation and have it flow as it does?
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  • Caleb Drewel 4 months ago
    simply gorgeous.
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  • Jarbas Agnelli plus 4 months ago
    Very impressive. Awesome video. Not only the work done with drawing, but the ideas and editing of the original footage.
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  • JohnBen Lacy 4 months ago
    What type of paper was used? This is very impressive! Nice work!
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  • Harrison W 4 months ago
    Great video! it was especially incredible when the color came in. I wish the We Cut Corners' other music was more like this song too.
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  • chulaluck Wit 4 months ago
    Wow
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  • Matthew McLemore 4 months ago
    Excellent and inspirational. I could watch this again and again, and will in fact.
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  • JessWeos 4 months ago
    Thank you!
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  • Sian Breslin 4 months ago
    Fantastic! Well done.
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  • Jay McDaniel 4 months ago
    One of the coolest music video I've seen in a long time!
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  • Jack Kalish 3 months ago
    This is beautiful. Looks like rotoscope, was it? The distortions and reflections look especially realistic. Hard to believe you could do this without reference!
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  • Carson Mataxis plus 3 months ago
    BEAUTY!

    Well done.
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  • Fizah Rahim plus 3 months ago
    Inspirational
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  • Kristen Miller 3 months ago
    fantastic example of rotoscoping!
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  • stephany pollard 3 months ago
    this is amazing, posted here >>>

    o-m-days.blogspot.com/
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  • _▁▁▂▄▅▆ 3 months ago
    Me encanta! estÁ hermoso todo!
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  • chaitanya krishnan 3 months ago
    thou hast been nominated for sainthood by the church of all good things that hath makest my brain explode
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  • Luciano Ferrarezi plus 3 months ago
    niiiiice
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  • Marcelo Fernández 3 months ago
    I loved pirates floating lines in our lives ...!!
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  • Arthur Dent 3 months ago
    Awesome awesome work.
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  • Dominic Oneill 3 months ago
    wow this is brilliant, really lovely stuff.

    heres a link to one of my animation. its only short and im new to this but check it out none the less. thanks :) canimation.redbull.co.uk/gallery/video/31640446
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  • Eoghan Hickey plus 3 months ago
    Fantastic.
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  • Travis Schmidt 3 months ago
    when rotoscoping, how much of what was drawn was improvised? Did you have to do a lot of research into reflections of water?
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  • Bobby Lacoste 3 months ago
    Beautiful. Love it.
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  • nSSn 25 3 months ago
    Lovely!
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  • Leo Campasso 2 months ago
    wooooooooooooooooooooowwwwwww!!!
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  • Tolga Ozturk 2 months ago
    Greaaaat work... superb.
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  • Noodles Map 2 months ago
    Original ! Bloged on info-graf.over-blog.com/
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  • Monsieur Zupika 2 months ago
    bardzo ładne :)
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  • Maximiliano Alejandro Moyano 1 month ago
    beautiful.
    thank you.

    =)
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  • John Gottschalk 1 month ago
    Reminds me of the video for Sebastien Tellier's "Look".
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  • VictoriaKarmin 1 month ago
    love Traditional animation!. I share you on: marvin.com.mx/noticia.detalle.php?art_id=4754
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  • Rob Munday 1 month ago
    Frame by Frame....all that hard work with marker pens was definitely worth it!

    Added to our channel - vimeo.com/channels/wearedn
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  • Ariin Kleemp 1 week ago
    Simply amazing!!!!!!!
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