Moon Animate Make-Up was a remote animation collaboration to reanimate an episode of Sailor Moon, shot-by-shot in each artist's personal style. From October 2013 to July 2014, Kaitlin personally recruited and managed close to three hundred artists and edited a full twenty-three minute episode that exhibited hundreds of unique styles of animation.
Working out of her home in Seattle, Kaitlin broke down the episode into individual shots, tracked the show's progress in Excel and edited each clip together to create a seamless parody episode with the episode's original English dub. Without any prior online following, Kaitlin used the resurgence of nostalgia for Sailor Moon to her advantage to recruit animators. By implementing Tumblr as her primary production blog, she was able to reach out to the largest number of amateurs, professionals, and fans due to the site's popularity with working artists.
The project hit 1,000,000 views on YouTube its first week and was a Front Page Pick. Moon Animate Make-Up received overwhelming international acclaim from press as varied as The L.A. Times and Entertainment Weekly to Anime News Network and Kotaku Japan. For an archive of the project's press, please visit the production blog on Tumblr.
Bartkira the Animated Trailer production began in November 2014 and debuted in July 2015. Based on the concept by Ryan Humphrey and James Harvey, which was a mash-up of The Simpsons and Akira, the project recruited fifty animators to re-animate the Akira trailer with characters from The Simpsons in the style of the late Klasky-Csupo period of the show's run.
The sequel to the critically acclaimed Moon Animate Make-Up began production in October 2015 and debuted in August 2016. It featured the original Japanese dialogue with English subtitles, and the work of close to three hundred animators working remotely from across the globe. The same principles from the first collaboration were applied for recruiting, management, editing, and promotion of the work by capitalizing on word of mouth through social media platforms.
In a life spanning one hundred years, Nata Lerska was a teenage dance sensation in Warsaw, survived the Holocaust in the Polish wilderness, and grew up to become a celebrated performer and teacher of Spanish dance over several decades in Paris and Warsaw. Filmed in the comfort of her apartment and across Paris with her Polish friends, this documentary covers the rich life of an extraordinary artist.
In this documentary, Kaitlin worked with Iwona Wojnicka as a director's assistant, localization translator, photographer, and researcher while on location in Paris and Warsaw, and remotely from London and L'viv.
Nata passed away on 21 October 2022. Her 103rd birthday would be on 28 March 2023.
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