Faculty of Art

Experimental Animation

Sara Khalil-Bayley

02 T39C

Sara Khalil-Bayley's third-year finishing animation.

“When adapting a book into an animated format, one becomes responsible for designing the characters and choosing the appropriate visuals that will best exemplify the aesthetic qualities of the story. This trailer follows in a similar vein to the various book trailers created by prolific animators for CBC's annual Canada Reads competition. The finalist books are promoted with a beautifully animated sequence, each with a style exclusive to itself. There is a wide variety among the trailers for these equally varying books, and the creative decisions were based both on what was most appropriate in depicting the story, and the relevant strengths of the commissioned animator. In the case of The 39 Clues, a vector style lends itself well to a story that plays heavily into themes of the digital world: surveillance, data, encryption. This trailer is framed as a "top priority" archive recording describing the narrative from an in-universe perspective, that those viewing it have been given access to.”