This is a hand animated short film about the moon’s journey to the sky on one particular night. Materially, I used cut paper with a limited color palette for the sets and characters. I used the program Frame-thief in conjunction with a digital video camera for capturing the stills onto my computer and edited the frames together with Final Cut to make the end product. I have always been interested in the way animation can give life and personality to utterly anything. Conceptually I wanted to bridge the gap between the second and fourth dimensions, while excluding the third. I was inspired by the incredible city of Amsterdam in the Netherlands and the ever-present moon in the night sky. "Amsterdam" is meant to be a fun piece which examines the way we see our physical world. The piece also deals with surrealist ideas and is very dream-like in fasion. Thank you Jeff Brush for helping me out. (by Colin McDonald)