HELLO YOU CREATIVES

A short film by Ryan, a copywriter at Mother.

He grew his beard out for a month and a half until his 7 year-old nephew, Max, came to visit and said that he hated it. So, he had to shave it, but instead of just heading to the bathroom sink and taking care of business, they decided to make a stop-motion short about what really happened to all of that facial hair with the stuffed animals he had brought. It took two days to shoot at Ryan’s flat. Max mainly operated Ryan’s  DSLR camera since Ryan had to be the subject and do the puppetry. Max was a little worried for Tiger’s safety since Ryan had to poke him with a stick to control his arm, but when Max saw that the stick could be removed the without hurting the stuffed animal he allowed them to continue. And “Tiger and the Beard” was the result