Sorry I’m Late is a fantastic short animation by director Tomas Mankovsky. This was shot at the Amadeus Centre in London in December of 2007. The film was shot with a 1:1 ratio, successfully shattering my expectations of the limits of film and animation. Documentation on the creation of this piece can be found at the film’s website.

Mankovsky wanted to build the illusion of a moving ground. To achieve this he initially moved the camera with a set background. Then he decided this wouldn’t work.

Instead of moving the camera for each frame we thought we’d make a fake floor out of pillows and other random stuff we could find at home. If we moved the floor for each frame it would give the illusion as if someone was walking forward.

The set

Plenty of light was needed in order for it to work.

Tomas explaining how the shark attack will work. There was no guide for the animation so "everything was based on gut feel".