Rather helpfully these nice people have described the entire process of creating this piece so I have some idea of how elaborate it actually is. "We made a list of objects that were surrounding us, objects that were all around us on a daily bases, and that we use primarily for their own function. We placed them randomly at first to recreate a realistic desk, and mark them down after all to make sure we knew where each of them needed to stand for the filming."
Each element was filmed or animated using stop-motion on seperated sequence. By using plain colours as a background we were able to key each objects, giving us the opportunity to have them on transparent background. The shoot as been done in Montreal at Simon Duhamel studio.
After we cleaned up each images from their background, we numerically disposed them back on the empty table using After Effect. Jérémi Dallaire was the flash engeneer and made the link between the objects and each A to Z keys. There is no link what so ever between the keys that control the objects. The idea is to experiment with the actual scene without knowing which object the key will activate.
The sound design was made by Nicolas Burrows and René-Pierre T.-Guérin. Due to the distance between Leeds (Nicolas) and Montreal, we could not record the exact same objects as on what's on the table. Also, since most of them don't make any sense in the way they are animated (the melting eraser for example), it left place for a playground of experimentation.
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