Club Walrus
(excerpt)
Digital Animation, 2026, 05:49 minutes
https://vimeo.com/1101673146
Club Walrus features puppet-sculptures made from trash collected from the shores of Svalbard in the Arctic Circle. The puppets were 3D scanned and rigged in animation software to behave like poorly constructed marionettes. The setting is also made from 3D-scanned scenes, including ice and rocks from Svalbard, backyard snow mounds, and 3D models extrapolated from 2D photos of glaciers and icebergs. The whole digital set is clearly constructed, with the seams frequently sticking out. The titular walruses were made with the misuse of image-generating software.
The animation is about the ecstasy of being in the Arctic environment and the despondency of how managed that experience is. Club Walrus is also about the impact the Arctic has on humans, and the human impact on the Arctic. It is about our trash, the fragility of connections and the agency of the other-than-human.