Ma'agalim - Yuri Lotan

 This beautiful animation illustrates quite hauntingly how life can just pass you by and you don't know where the time has gone. We take on the perspective of the figure with the scarf walking around in loops and witnessing people living their lives, building families, failing and ultimately dying. This music video is quite appropriate to the lyrics (translated below from youtube). However unlike some animated music videos, this one stands on its own as a very touching Animated short film.

The level of detail and texturing is quite incredible and one may easily confuse this for a real wooden penny arcade machine as opposed to the CG animation that it is. The designs are also very charming.

 

 

 

 

Music - Jane Bordeaux Band
Producers: Uri Lotan & Yoav Shtibelman
Director: Uri Lotan
Co-Director: Yoav Shtibelman
Art Director: Ovadia Benishu
Additional Art: Avner Geller
Lighting and Shading: Yosef Refaeli
Additional Lighting: Uri Lotan, Rob Showalter
Storyboard: Yoav Shtibelman
Modeling and Rigging: Uri Lotan, Ore Peleg, Or Ofri
Texturing:Yosef Refaeli, Dor Ben-Dayan
Animation: Yoav Shtibelman, Toby Pedersen, Ron Polischuk
Effects: Phenomena Labs
Compositing: Uri Lotan, Ilia Marcus
Coloring: Ilia Marcus

lyrics:

nights turn into days, days turn into years
and in that time i'm walking fast in circles

Winds are blowing at me, Blowing down my neck
Everything looks too distant, for my size their too great

Its not me that's moving forward, Its only time that slips away
Its another train that passes by, It's another tightening rope

Sunrises setting fast, As more seasons pass
And me, still the same while time is getting short

Its not me that's moving forward, Its only time that slips away 2X
Its another train that passes by, It's another tightening rope