TimeLapse of Fall Forest Multiplane Stop MOTION ANIMATION

Over the summer and fall semesters at UConn I have been developing a series of animated forest scenes for Nothing Really Matters. These scenes are tiny in their original form but they will be projected in giant scale so that I can go behind the screen and appear in silhouette walking through the animated forest. 
Each scene is about a minute long and contains a forest of hand cut paper trees. The leaves are laser cut duplicates in varying colors to produce replacement animations which progress from summer, through fall and winter into spring. 
I designed each tree and leaf shape as well as the three tier cranky system which allows the trees to travel across the camera at varying paces to produce a parallax effect.  
Kayo Tokuue, a third year MFA light design student at UConn has been assisting me in creating the footage and I am extremely grateful for her patience, attention to detail and awareness of how light affects the camera!