The original stop-motion animated footage of Aerial Animation

In 2008, Abigail Baird adapted a puppetry technique known as Crankie Theater to produce the first Aerial Animation footage.
She hand-drew the entire story using Sharpie on clear vinyl sheets, then took a series of photographs to create a stop-motion animated film. This film was projected onto a bedsheet hung behind an aerial sling she rigged at the Wise Fool studio in Santa Fe, New Mexico. ​This beta test became the outline for the original 2D digitally animated story,
which was illustrated by Aerial Animation’s original animator, Matt Melis.