A cute animation by Aardman Studio for W+K about ‘Dot’, a tiny 9mm girl who wakes up in a magical, magnified world to discover her surroundings are caving in around her.

Shot entirely on a Nokia N8 handset fitted with ‘CellScope’ (technology developed to help diagnose fatal diseases in remote areas of third world countries), ‘Dot’ was so small they had to create her with a 3D printer, producing 50 models in all to capture all the different movements she made. On their site they explain the project saying they

“..used innovative Rapid Prototyping 3D printing technology that uses a computer-generated model of an object or character and then prints it in full 3D using a plastic resin material. The entire set was no more than a metre and a half long, all elements of which were used to help sell the scale of the project to the viewer. The film was painted under a microscope by expert modelmakers and animated using tweezers; “It became a real test of working at such a small scale, and in having the patience to push on through ’til the end'” said Aardman director Ed Patterson. “The final film has come out better than we could have hoped for. It was great collaborating with Wieden + Kennedy and to gel so well creatively. The Nokia N8 stood up to the challenge and produced some outstanding images”.

You can read about it in more detail on their site here