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'Dear Fauna' is an independent film, and passion project which has taken over a year to produce. All 32 sets, 85 animal puppets, and stop-motion animation were done by Fauna Rasmussen, along with the accompanying poem! Ben Grim composed the music. Many more people were involved. Please see credits for details!
I needle felted each of the models myself with a wire armature skeleton. I animate them on backgrounds I build from plaster impregnated gauze and other more specialized materials. Each set is built on two 12-9in cardboard pieces. And backgrounds are painted in acrylic. Some sets require more specialized setups.
Minke Whale
Pyrenian Ibex
Eurasian Wild Horse
Genus Homo
Eurasian Brown Bear
Eurasian Brown Bear
Penguin (Great Auk)
Penguin (Great Auk)
Mute Swan
Mute Swan
European Perch (left) European Carp (Right)
European Perch (left) European Carp (Right)
European Hamster
European Hamster
New clips added (almost) every week!
This project is estimated to be completed by some time in August 2025, although this is by no means certain. The premier will be staged as an event in the MCAD auditorium once the film is finished, along with appearing in a number of galleries and festivals. Otherwise the film will eventually be released on Youtube.
Credits
Producers:
Ben Grim
Fauna Rasmussen
Animation:
Fauna Rasmussen
Editing:
Fauna Rasmussen (lead editor)
Ben Grim (audio mixing)
Emma Tracy (occasional color correction)
Set Design:
Fauna Rasmussen
Kraig Rasmussen (background paintings)
Dylan Elliot (consultant)
Erica Rasmussen (
Promotional Photography:
Erica Rasmussen
Kai Johnson
Fauna Rasmussen
Sound design:
Pixabay.com (sound effects)
Ben Grim (composer, mixing, Instrumentalist (lowercase i?); Percussion (lowercase p?)
Fauna Rasmussen (sound design)
Leo Burchett (Instrumentalist; Double Bass (lowercase i, d, b?)
Aspen Armstrong (instrumentalist; flute)
Poetry:
Fauna Rasmussen (author)
Kraig Rasmussen (co-editor)
Erica Rasmussen (co-editor)
Lea Graham (editor)
PR:
Angela Mitchell
The full list of animals in this series (subject to change):
Wild boar
European badger
European hedgehog
European toad
European shrew
European mole
Caribou
Eurasian Brown bear
Woolly mammoth
Cave lion
Muskox
Auroch
Denisovan
Walrus
Sperm whale
Beluga whale
Orca
Narwhal
European green crab
Harbor seal
Homotherium latidens
Stone marten
Red fox
Ural owl
Raven
Gray wolf
Steppe bison
Crow
Red squirrel
Mute swan
European perch
Eurasian carp
Northern Pike
Brown trout
Minnows
Griffon vulture
Cave Leopard
Pyrenean Ibex
Adder
Chamois
Lanza's Alpine salamander
Elasmotherium
Norway lemming
Alpine Marmot
Little owl
Palaeoloxodon Antiquus
Western swamphen
Cave hyena
Russian saiga
Myotragus
Nuralagus rex
Common slow worm
Western green lizard
Golden eagle
House gecko
European hamster
Common blue butterfly
Megaloceros
Hawfinch
European blackbird
Rock pigeon
Bluethroat
European bee eater
Homo Sapiens
Neanderthal
Brown crab
Sardinian giant otter
Ornate wrasse
Salema porgy
Black damselfish
Mauve stinger
Thornback ray
Mediterranean moray
Loggerhead sea turtle
Common moon jelly
Bottlenose dolphin
Minke whale
Great auk
Herring gull
Atlantic Puffin
Woolly rhino
Herman’s Tortoise
Fire salamander
European Wild horse
Barbary Macaque
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