Merlin Flgel’s ITFS 2023 Trailer Goes Out of Bounds – Motion design [Video]

Fresh from the playful mind of Berlin-based director/animator Merlin Flügel (who dropped this wonderfully strange short in 2021), comes the trailer for the 2023 edition of the Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film.

Merlin Flügel: “The marble run in the film is subject to certain rules and follows a certain track. But the real fun begins when unforeseen things happen – when balls derail and the track develops a life of its own.

“To me, this tension between chaos and order is what makes a festival tick, and I wanted to pick up on this feeling in my trailer. The animated short film in particular is so versatile that as a viewer of a short film program you have to engage with so many different ideas within such a short space of time.