The animation focuses heavily on expressive movement, dramatic composition, and performance-driven storytelling to communicate tension and emotional vulnerability through visual rhythm, lighting, and staging. Inspired by the language of theatrical puppetry and stage performance, the project explores the blurred relationship between manipulation, freedom, and self-expression through stylized environments and emotionally charged scene transitions.
From a technical perspective, the production explored character animation, stylized rigging workflows, environmental storytelling, lighting design, cinematic camera choreography, and rendering pipelines developed in Autodesk Maya and Adobe Premiere Pro. Particular attention was placed on maintaining visual symbolism, controlled pacing, and theatrical atmosphere while balancing stylized aesthetics with cinematic readability throughout the animation pipeline.
Presented through the stylized animation, cinematic storytelling, and animation teaching practice of Roman Jahandideh.
Technical Animation Artist, Director, and Teaching Assistant, Simon Fraser University.
The Puppet Show is a stylized narrative animation project developed within IAT 343 Animation at Simon Fraser University. Centered around themes of control, performance, and identity, the project combines theatrical visual storytelling, symbolic character