outlines all the necessary tasks to assemble maki: slice your fish, spread the rice, bleed from , sweat all over your workspace, spend years agonizing over perfection, and finally, slice your roll into bite-sized pieces. Enjoy?
Made by London-based director and 3D designer , the humorous animation provides a quirky look at mastering a craft. It’s complete with the basic kitchen skills like cleaning a knife and gathering ingredients, in addition to more emotional labor like ending a romantic relationship and rising early each day.
Lindgren said the instructional project began in 2018 when he created a few frames based on the lives of sushi chefs. After consulting with Luke Brown from on a score and actor , the director created the short film. “Always being inspired by Japanese animation, this turned into an emulation of many years of reading manga and watching anime. Also seeing how the amazing craftsmanship and graphic design was used in definitely influenced me a lot while making this,” he said.
Find more of Lindgren’s amusing animations on , and check out his other creative work on and . You might also want to watch this time-lapse of the making of . (via )
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