Traces of a Benevolent Face

Traces of a Benevolent Face is a 12 minute animated story about two sisters enjoying an ordinary day about town. They set out to visit their favourite haunts: a used bookstore for bedtime reading, a grocery store for afternoon lunching, and a cinema for a dinosaur movie matinee. An accident interrupts their routine, and the thunderstorm to follow forces them to abandon the cinema to seek shelter in an open and seemingly empty church.

This little movie was the author's last complete project before beginning the Mrs. Quarterhorse books, and was constructed in the same frame of mind. The relationship between the sisters is in some (but certainly not all) ways similar to that between Mrs. Quarterhorse and her protégé; and the movie's underlying ruminations on portraiture, on the approximation (and appropriation) of the human face by the graphic arts, returns explicitly in the fifth book of the Quarterhorse series, The Ecstasy of Mrs. Quarterhorse.

Traces of a Benevolent Face represents two years of work that the author is certain were not wasted. It is an open source production from top to bottom--constructed, animated, and edited in Blender. Clips of the movie, or perhaps even the whole thing will appear here one day.

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