Images viaFrom the trees to the factories, everything in the universe of Sundance-nominated short Me + Her is handcrafted from corrugated cardboard. The piece, which took 11,209 man hours to create, explores the love story of Jack and Jill, as told through rod puppets and animatronics.The process was an arduous trek beginning in 2008. "The very first 'Jack' puppet was made in late 2007. He was quite a bit cruder, but the central design changed very little between that and the final version of him we shot in the summer of 2013," says director Joseph Oxford on the film site. "He started out as a vague idea for a music video that never happened. He sat on my desk, staring at me as I rendered out animation sequences for another failed music video (I started and never finished a multitude of music videos), and I began to envision the world he would inhabit and crafting his story." From the birth of Jack, seven years later, Me + Her grew into fruition
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Below, sneak a peek at the work that went into this short film, first displayed on The New Yorker:
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