We built a series of experiential films for the new Hans Christian Andersen museum built in Odense, Denmark, just steps from the site of the authors childhood home. The large scale museum is filled with artwork and interpretations of his dark fairy tales from artists across the world. Together with director Noah Harris, I led a team of 20 VFX & 3D artists as we built films for 10 of the museums key exhibits.

The films were experimental, exciting and all very dark, alternative takes on some of Hans Christian Andersen’s most famous fairy tales. Across 5 studio days we shot a range of live action plates and puppetry, along with stop motion characters and then composited these into 3d scenes, combining LIDAR scanning of Hans Christian’s childhood home and surrounding streets and the 3d animation of some of the tales creatures and characters.

Projected within a impressive museum space, designed by Kengo Kuma Associates, our films were built to be immersive, experiential art pieces, existing on floating shards of glass above your head, mirror glazed ice palaces or projected in full 360 around you inside of a giant toy box.

It was a dream brief and here is just a small selection of stills and content from the production of the films.