{"id":906,"date":"2025-08-28T22:57:38","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T02:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spicycoffeearts.com\/?page_id=906"},"modified":"2025-09-01T19:24:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T23:24:31","slug":"the-wild-goose","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.spicycoffeearts.com\/portfolio\/animation\/the-wild-goose\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wild Goose"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer mb-0 mt-0\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-quaternary-color has-text-color has-link-color has-lato-font-family has-custom-font has-custom-lineheight wp-elements-a39dc53a5a0cea0616eeb72ac2235545\" style=\"font-family:Lato;line-height:1\"><em>THE WILD GOOSE<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color has-montserrat-font-family has-custom-font has-custom-lineheight wp-elements-7587d35a95d1ed13503479a873d282f7\" style=\"color:#ababff;font-family:Montserrat;line-height:1;font-size:20px\">Client Work | 2D Animator, Compositor<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Wild Goose (2024) animated short. Canadian Art Song Project #TheWildGooseShort\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9zZEsqvOWS4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<p class=\"has-quaternary-color has-text-color has-link-color has-montserrat-font-family has-custom-font has-custom-weight wp-elements-08d5d6e6a59a200644b7dd480c436b55\" style=\"font-family:Montserrat;font-weight:normal;font-size:18px\">Commissioned by The Canadian Art Song Project, <em>The Wild Goose <\/em>is a 2D animated short film that tells the humorous story of a man&#8217;s life out in the Northern Ontario landscapes, living and aging alongside the cartoony natured geese. It plays over an arrangement of the same name by Cecilia Livingston, originally composed by Canadian singer\/song-writer Wade Hemsworth.<br><br>I got to work with a group of animation students from OCAD University on this project by collaborating visual development ideas that draw inspiration from Canadian illustrator Thoreau MacDonald. 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