Annie Poon is a stop motion animator who gave a lecture at the BYU Museum of Art in 2017. Her animations are done with cut out pieces of paper that are drawn on with ink. Annie shared that a lot of her artwork was influenced by the idea of play: she and her twin sister used to put on plays with paper and make little paper people, and this came back to her when she was in college in New York City much later in life, when she was an adult and married, and really influenced her work.
Play, paper, stories, childhood experience, and depression all were big influences in her artwork. Several of her animations are recreations of games she used to play as a child, or stories she liked. She also has done several animations based on her depression.
"The Split House" is one animation that she has worked on over the course of 10 years, and has several influences. The scenery was both influenced by the town of Split, Croatia, where she served her LDS mission, and also the start of bipolar disorder, which she began to develop, it sounds like. Split families also play a part in this idea as well. She references specific people from her life and also C.S. Lewis books several times.
I was really impressed by the technical idea of using multiple layers of plexiglass in paper animation to make darker shadows. It made a beautiful effect in her films.
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