Hobbs and the Hyena: Watch the Multi-Award Winning Short Film “The Debutante” – Motion design [Video]

Having wrapped a stellar festival run (including a Jury Award at SXSW and being shortlisted for an Oscar), artist/animator Elizabeth Hobbs has released her eight-minute hand-made surrealist fantasy The Debutante into the wild.

Hobbs draws on her background in printmaking to assemble a turbulent and wonderfully chaotic frame-by-frame mix of ink, paint, rotoscoping, collage, and cut-out animation on a range of surfaces captured under a rostrum camera to interpret the tale of a young woman who convinces a hyena to take her place at a debutante ball. 

“The film is my tribute to an extraordinary artist, who’s courage, feminism and connection to the natural world are an inspiration to us even now.”

 Elizabeth Hobbs: “The Debutanteis based on a short story written by the British artist Leonora Carrington, who was presented at the court of King George V and herself became a debutante in 1936. The film is my tribute to an extraordinary …