CREATE is a verb.

Cake Alive!

Two of my favorite things together in one short film – animation and cake!

I was instantly taken with this homage to Tim Burton. The Caketrope of BURTON’s Team is an imaginative take on zoetrope animation by Alexandre Dubosc.

A zoetrope is a cylinder with a sequence of pictures on its inner surface which, when viewed through the vertical slits spaced regularly around it while it is spinning, gives the illusion that the pictures are moving. Some modern day zoetropes use strobe lighting instead of the slits to get the same effect. The Ghibli Museum has a wonderful zoetrope populated with characters from their films and Disney also has a Toy Story themed zoetrope at Disneyland Resort.

Another thing I love about the Caketrope film is the combination of the visuals with sound and music to make the cake come alive:

Alexandre Dubosc: alexandre-dubosc.com