"Through the tiny window of short clips on Instagram and TikTok, Mary's world seems enchanting and vast. Bree's work exudes melancholic emotion and ethereal femininity, painting the surfaces of Mary's world in the vibrating style of stop-motion animation, dappled with sparkling light and computer-generated surfaces so convincing it feels like you could pose the model with your own hands. O'Donnell sat down with us to talk a bit about her process creating textures and her life's work making magic real."
"My name is Bree, and I'm an animator, filmmaker. And really, background starts pretty early, when I was a little kid, making a million little stories on paper and taping them together and making little books. Running around in the woods, obsessed with the idea of fantasy and magic. A need for magic to be real, which led me to just continue drawing."
"And then as I got older, starting to animate. Animation was really a window to fantasy and magic and worldbuilding in a way that's very accessible. So I refused to let go of that fantasy and refused to let go of everything I ever wanted coming true. And I think that just naturally led me to continue developing an animation craft that has been informed by whatever tools I've had available to me at different stages in my life or working at different companies"
Bree O'Donnell is an animator and filmmaker creating a 3D witch named Mary whose short social clips suggest an enchanting, vast world. Her work emphasizes melancholic emotion and ethereal femininity, combining the vibrating cadence of stop-motion with sparkling light and highly convincing computer-generated textures that read as tactile models. Bree began making stories and handmade books as a child and carried a lifelong obsession with fantasy into animation. She progressed from drawing and cel animation into computer animation, adapting to tools encountered at different jobs. Her craft focuses on texture creation and worldbuilding aimed at making magic feel real and touchable.
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