The ‘Spirit Quest’ Animator – Cosme – Talks | “It’s a labour of love.”
Spirit Quest is the most unique skateboard video of the year. Done indepently as a labour of love for both creator Colin Read (who was interviewed last week) and animator Cosme. Drawing and skateboarding are such perfect compliments to each other. Doing something over and over again. Perfect for all kinds of OCD’s and creatives.
Colin Read first saw Cosme’s animations when he did some work with Lakai. So he hit him up to do Spirit Quest and the rest is history:
What’s the process like for this kind of project? Did Colin have very clear ideas of what he wanted before you started?
Colin knew exactly what he wanted and how he wanted it from the very beginning. He first sent me a Zach Lyons clip and explained me his idea for the transition. This one was actually the longest one. I struggled for a bit with the animation because I had the feeling that I was only ruining the footage.
After a little back and forth I found something that I thought could work. Colin liked it and we went forward with the whole thing. At first it was really mellow, just the chameleon intro, then Matt Town and then Jimmy Lannon. And then it got hectic, the amount of footage became overwhelming! That’s when I felt that the style of the animations was getting nicer and my hand was loosening up so I went back to the first Zach Lyons’ one and repeated it again.
Click over to KINGPIN MAG for the full interview with the Spirit Quest animator Cosme
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