One Arrow
«Как бог стал Тёмным властелином?»
A story told backwards. The Dark Lord’s eyes ignite, then time rewinds through a law, an arrow, love and a mirror to the moment before the shot — and the camera finds who ordered it.
Motion films where every frame is computed.
Paper Mantis makes short animated films and studio idents. Each frame is a function of time written in code, rendered deterministically, with the sound cut to the same timeline.
Work
Five Simple Steps to the Apocalypse
«Пять простых шагов к Апокалипсису»
A perfectly organised checklist walks the heroes through five ever more absurd tasks, each with a cheerful tick — until a forgotten sixth step, “Agree on the goal”, appears.
PAPER MANTIS — studio ident
One square of paper folds into a mantis. It waits, strikes, catches a lime dot and throws it — the dot writes the studio’s name and the mantis becomes the logo.
How we work
- Code, not keyframes. Every element is a function of time, so a change is an edit and a re-render, not a redraw.
- One timeline for picture and sound. Sound cues come from the same frame table as the animation; the snap lands on the contact frame.
- Checked before delivery. Frame count, duration, loudness, true peak and a frame-by-frame review with written expectations.
- Reproducible. Each film keeps its brief, prompts, references, external reviews and a tagged build.