La Correspondance Octobre 2026
Bonjour
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Welcome to the very first blog post of Rue du Château Papeterie!
Dans l'Atelier — In The Studio
I thought I’d share the time we (Pieter and I) had creating the stop-motion on our home page.
Initial inspiration:
We needed a video for the homepage, but I wasn’t sure exactly how to capture the aesthetics I was after.
I kept on thinking about this stop motion from college that friends of ours made back in 2010:
There’s something so fun and playful about this video. The handmade-ness of it all really stuck with me, and still resonates.
This kind of thing reminds me of Saturday morning cartoons in the 90s, where there was a bit more hand-made animation. The paper texture of Eric Carle books, The Reading Rainbow intro, Wallace and Gromit, and Paddington Bear from 1976 have a nostalgic feel that I love:
The paper drawings + 3D bear really are a special combination.
Some other textures that captured my attention while exploring this topic included Enya’s 1980s & 90s(Caribbean Blue & Orinoco Flow) music videos, and the painterly photographs of SZILVESZTER MAKÓ:
The RDC Draft:
For my own thing, I wanted to capture similar feelings, with a bit of warmth & whimsy.
Pieter and I laid out the actual objects that felt important to showcase for RDC. We created a letter writing scene, accompanied by a cup of coffee, a real croissant, and a vase of flowers, all things that make letter writing even more lovely.
We took hundreds of photos to test our animation, and the draft was so lovely that surely the hand drawn version would be just too much (in the best way)!
The original video didn’t jiggle as much as we wanted so we planned to add more photos/frames, more wiggles in each to make the objects dance. Then I drew each object, printed them, cut them, and then we laid them out to shoot!
The Final Result:
À Bientôt
I hope you enjoyed this little trip through our creative process. On another, very different level (one could say a highly skilled stop-motion professional level), a new movie is out from the creators at Laika Studios, called Wildwood. It showcases a level of stop motion animation so unfathomable that I encourage you to take a look at their trailer if you have an interest in stop motion.
See you soon,
P