This ethereal and abstract piece created in Cinema 4D by Betsy Kopmar, a motion graphics instructor at Expression College, will be showing as part of the SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Fest in New Orleans this year.

Inspired by the 17th Century Japanese screen painting by Kano Tanyu, “Night Fishing with Cormorants” and by Akira Yoshimura’s novel “Shipwrecks”, Kopmar says, “I am not telling a naturalistic story, but rather I have tried to make a work that will hold in equal reverence the spirit of the bird, the fish, and the fisherman.”