Food Forest: A Short Motion Piece by Freek Freriks

Dutch creative director and 3D artist Freek Freriks has created a beautiful motion piece for Food Forest Ketelbroek, a pioneering project in Nijmegen known as the first food forest in the Netherlands.

The animation opens on a drafting table, where grid paper and drawing tools slowly bring something to life. Grass sprouts along pencil lines, a sapling thickens into a fruit tree, and a flat schematic swells into a miniature forest before the seasons turn it gold and strip it bare. The final shot brings the whole sequence onto a plate.

Freek’s short atmospheric film beautifully captures the concept of a food forest: a designed system, not a wild one, treating the drafting board and the dinner table as two ends of a single process.

For more of Freek Freriks’ work, head over to his website.

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