Lisa Rydin Erickson
Here are a variety of animations that I have created for various events.
Poet Guitar was created for Amp Up! at the American Swedish Institute for the exhibit of Sweden’s Hagstrom guitars. Each of the guitars has a back story that relates to the Hagstrom family history of their business or Swedish heritage folklore.
Lucky Bucket was created for MNKINO and was played at MinnAnimate organized by John Akre of Sloppy Films.
The premise was to use something simple and make a story out of it for MNKINO, a monthly international amateur filmmaker organization from our Twin City chapter. My husband suggested a bucket and quickly the story unfolded. Only lit with a candelabra he puppets were painted and filmed as the early morning winter light shone onto the dining room table. Within a weeks time the storyline and film was complete and a friend Lisa Sackreiter down the block rewrote the full story beautifully.
It was selected for the Twin Cities International Film Festival and shown during the festival.
It was also shown at the MN winter Ice Shanty village and was played inside one of the shanty’s on White Bear Lake.
Research Round Table was to be shown at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum for Nature Based Therapeutics directed by Dr. Jean M. Larson.
Migration is another short MNKINO film created with Karen Kopacz of Design for the Arts. Karen also created the Lucky Bucket process clip and the Indigo clip.
Amp Up! at American Swedish Institute / An animation of iPad Drawings created by Lisa Rydin Erickson. These are poetic interpretations of Hagstrom Guitars shown at Amp It Up June 20 to October 25, 2015. Music by Drew Rydin Erickson and Production by Ryan Murphy copyright 2015
Source – https://vimeo.com/130546233
A Nisse out of luck asks a bridge troll for some magic luck. He trades a beautiful pair of mittens for a lucky bucket which appears to be empty. Filling it with good things for animals and the farmers family the nisse realizes that it truly is lucky.
Animation by Lisa Rydin Erickson
Written by Lisa Sackreiter
Narration by Drew Peterson and Soren and Kai Sackreiter
Source – https://vimeo.com/85124866
This iPad animation was created and presented for the Nature Heals Conference 2013 for Nature Based Therapeutics Univeristy of Minnesota.
iPad animation Lisa Rydin Erickson
illustrations Mulysa Melco
Written by Lisa Sackreiter
Sound Ryan Murphy
Voice talent Charles Numrich
Voice talent Sarah Richardsom
Director Dr. Jean M. Larson
Guidance and Support Timothy Day
Source – https://vimeo.com/72137999
This is an animation used as invitational story on the conference website depicting a story of barn swallows gathering and inviting international speakers back to the conference. It will be used for the University of Minnesota Nature-Based Therapeutics Research Round Table in April 2014.
Animation created by Lisa Rydin Erickson
Directed by Dr. Jean M. Larson
Marketing Kit Breshears
Sound Ryan Murphy
Source – https://vimeo.com/84497980
Migration and Murmuration animation drawn by Lisa Rydin Erickson, playback iPad art. Original score by Karen Kopacz, presented at MinnAnimate 2013
Source – https://vimeo.com/75061379
Public Field Guide film. Artist, illustrator and animator Lisa Rydin Erickson talks about the process of making a stop motion animation using her sumi-e style illustrations.
Source – https://vimeo.com/84005972
