They offer solitude and the chance to reflect on things as you swim. "I discovered a love for these places at art school.
I loved this dreamlike fantasy and wanted to explore it in my animation," she adds.Īn avid swimmer herself, the idea for the video began at her local pool. In her debut album, she explores ideas about a person living in the water where everyone else has become a sea creature. Although this process is laborious, Cecilia finds it rewarding: "I love the textures and imperfections that pencil on paper offers," she says.Ĭecilia's piece captures themes explored in Nijuu's music. The drawings were then scanned in and digitally coloured.
This is Cecilia's first music video, but not her first experience with animation, as that was something she explored while studying Illustration at the University of Brighton, teaching herself by tracing videos of herself on her webcam and slowly gaining more understanding for the way that the body moves.įor Blue, all 700 of the frames were hand-drawn on separate pieces of paper using a lightbox. Inspired by the Korean musician's lo-fi style and the track's lyrics, the film begins in an ordinary swimming pool that soon becomes a lyrical adventure, populated by graceful, anthropomorphic sea creatures, as the swimmer is transported to an imaginary world beneath the surface.
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