This indie animation company turned all the “no’s” to “let’s make our own damn studio” | scoutmagph
“[My co-director and I] applied to a whole slew of places, every big studio you could think of, and got [rejected] from [all of them],” Studio Heartbreak co-founder A.S. Siopao tells us in an exclusive interview. “The studio started actually because we had nothing lined up for that whole summer. Starting a studio is every young artist’s pipe dream, and we accepted it as such. However, we wanted to give it a shot. We sent a few of our animator friends a message, and the rest is history.
One of our inspirations for the film was actually a YouTuber. His name is Masaru, and he’s a spear fisherman who catches his own fish and cooks them. In the voiceover, he has lots of interesting things to say about the ethics of fishing, fish anatomy, the fishing economy on his island, and all sorts of things. His commentary on the ethics of killing really influenced my writing of the film. There is something very visceral about seeing a fish swimming in coral being taken and turned into food.
“The Lovers” has a dark and foreboding aesthetic, with great influence from monster movies and surrealism with a dash of retro anime elements. We were also inspired by Binondo architecture for the film’s environments. I think that animation as a medium leans a bit conservative just because of how expensive and time-consuming it is to produce, while animation fans will always crave more experimental and weird art that falls out of that range.How do you choose your collaborators?
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