A Morning Stroll

Grant Orchard

2011

06'48"

Flash, CGI

“When a New Yorker walks past a chicken on his morning stroll, we’re left to wonder which one is the real city slicker…”

Based loosely on a real life event recounted in Paul Auster’s brilliant book True Tales of American Life, Grant Orchard’s “A Morning Stroll” tells the story of one New Yorker’s early morning encounter with a chicken, an event that plays out over 100 years.

From Curators

“A Morning Stroll” is inspired by a true story of an encounter between a New Yorker and a chicken, and brings the audience from 1959 to 2009 and then into 2059. The multiple parallel time-space narration connects different development ages of animation. The work intends to remark a special style of each age by image techniques. For example, simple lines of the animation and the film effect in the black and white movie era, the 2D-like monochromatic computer animation or the pixelization in the color television era, and finally the vivid presentation for subtle gradations of light and shade in 3D computer animation.

Grant Orchard

Artist Introduction

Grant Orchard is a BAFTA winning and Oscar nominated animation director and designer who lives and works in London. He has won two prestigious D&AD awards and recently won at Sundance for his film “A Morning Stroll”.

He joined STUDIO AKA in 1997, and soon gained attention for his idiosyncratic design and his ability to approach projects from many different angles. He has created many an eye-catching spot for clients as diverse as Compaq, Skype, Barclays and Orange.

Alongside that he has, in his own words, “moved a whole bunch of small shapes around.” As his hugely successful “Love Sport” series testifies.