Titmouse "The Mystery of Meetings" Animated Short

"The Mystery of Meetings"

Bluescape collaborated with a team from the award-winning animation production company Titmouse to explore what’s really going on behind the screens of video meetings. Watch the short, or scroll to learn more about the project.

Watch the roundtable with the animators here

Meet the Animators

Matt Taylor

Animation Director
Additional credits: Metalocalypse, Rick and Morty: Exquisite Corpse, Fairfax

Mari Jaye Blanchard

Animator
Additional credits: Sesame Street, Swing, SpongeBob SquarePants 360

Jeremy Polger

Animator
Additional credits: Thundercats Roar, Centaurworld, AREA21

Sander Joon

Animator
Additional credits: Velodrool, Moulinet, Sounds Good, Sierra

Dante Buford

Animator
Additional credits: Metalocalypse, Moonbeam City, Star Trek: Lower Decks

Otto Tang

Animator
Additional credits: Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja, By the Stream, Kinderwood

Roundtable with the Animators

Learn what inspired each artist's segment and peek into the creative process behind the short. Hear from all 6 animators and the producer!

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About the project

The assignment was based on the core mystery of all video meetings: since you’re not in the same room as your team, you never really know what they’re thinking, what’s going on around them, or how they’re absorbing what you’re saying. Each animator was given 15 seconds within the short to explore the mysterious places people go during meetings.

Collab'ing in Bluescape

Developing the short required this fully remote team to be on video meetings—just like their avatars. Rather than sit idly in boxes, they met and collaborated in Bluescape. The team preferred having a freeform space to work in where they could visualize the project, share art, inspire each other, and break from the constraints of typical video meetings.

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Behind the screens

"The Mystery of Meetings" allowed the team a great deal of artistic freedom. Director Matt Taylor encouraged each animator to express their own style and interpret the assignment in their own way. Like the Rick and Morty Exquisite Corpse Matt directed in 2017, "The Mystery" was a well-coordinated dance and the team pulled it off beautifully.

Watch: Titmouse behind the scenes

Go inside "The Mystery" workspace

Step inside the creative workspace the animators used while developing the short. Enter to explore storyboards, animatics, unseen cuts, and more.

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We did our video calls in Bluescape, which was great because everything we needed to look at was right there. We watched videos together. We came up with new ideas. We had space to do all that. Bluescape made it really easy to collaborate.

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Riley Riggen

Associate Producer

When we got into the space, I didn’t know anyone, but I completely felt comfortable. I felt like I could leave notes or draw or make comments on other people’s stuff. It was a really supportive environment.

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Mari Jaye Blanchard

Animator

I was about to scrap the ending when I saw Riley was in the space. Seeing him there was exactly what I needed. We hopped on a call and talked it out. It was an impromptu but crucial conversation that happened at the perfect moment.

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Matt Taylor

Animation Director

Working remotely, we kind of just see each other as boxes. So, to have a space where we can physically see each other moving around, it reminds me that this is a team.

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Otto Tang

Animator

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