Way to Go is an interactive experience
for human beings between 5 and 105 years old.
Maybe it lasts six minutes;
maybe it lasts forever.
for human beings between 5 and 105 years old.
Maybe it lasts six minutes;
maybe it lasts forever.
YOU ARE ON YOUR WAY. Yes, you are on your way. It is not your first journey but Way to Go is the next journey before you. A walk through strange country - strange, familiar, remembered, forgotten. It is a restless panorama, a disappearing path, a game and a feeling. Way to Go is a small experience that gets bigger as you uncover it. And the trees will change their shape, and the sky will widen. And you will fly. We go away every day. We plunge through the city, skate down roads, tunneling toward a destination without remembering the quests we are on. A journey is a collection of moments - we are here, we are here, we are here, and yet we miss these moments. A journey is a collection of choices - turn here, stop here, choose here, and yet we surrender these choices. What if we quit surrendering? What if we didn't miss? Here is a world enclosed in a screen. Here is an adventure. A landscape of leaves and wildflowers, teeming with hidden life. A garden and a wilderness, a wistful blink of dream. You are Jean Painlevé, Marco Polo, Maria Merian. You are Alice, Sonic, Osvaldo Cavandoli. You are a visitor, a cartoon of face and limbs, and you are going on a walk. Using hand-made animation, music, 360° capture technology and webGL sorcery, Way to Go imagines a dream-world of journeys. Walk, run, fly; crouch in the grass and remember what's hidden all around. Slip like a rumour from one place into another; chase your shadow; listen to the slow pulse of the metronome, black-clad, following in your wake. Are you alone? Are you not alone? Are you dreaming or awake? Can you ever reach the mountains? Can you see what's here before you? Set out through woods and fields, sunlight and aurora, grey and colours. Set out, in deliberate lucid looking and you'll find, perhaps, the present. Preface by Sean Michaels
Press W to WALK, E to RUN, SPACEBAR to JUMP.
MOVE YOUR MOUSE to look around + CLICK to do things.
If you are a LEFTY, you can use I to WALK and O to RUN.
And for your kid that has tiny hands and can't read, he or she can actually press ANY KEYS. It will either make the character walk or run. Spacebar is still to jump.
If you want to PAUSE or USE YOUR CURSOR, press ESC
(it's the key at the very top-left of your keyboard).
If the project doesn't run smoothly, try to reduce the size of
the browser window and shut down other applications.
MOVE YOUR MOUSE to look around + CLICK to do things.
If you are a LEFTY, you can use I to WALK and O to RUN.
And for your kid that has tiny hands and can't read, he or she can actually press ANY KEYS. It will either make the character walk or run. Spacebar is still to jump.
If you want to PAUSE or USE YOUR CURSOR, press ESC
(it's the key at the very top-left of your keyboard).
If the project doesn't run smoothly, try to reduce the size of
the browser window and shut down other applications.
Creation
AATOAA
Directed and shot by
Vincent Morisset
Music and sounds
Philippe Lambert
Creative coding and technology
Édouard Lanctôt-Benoit
Animations, drawings, macro videos and costumes
Caroline Robert
Rotoscopy and tracking
Brandon Blommaert
Additional masking
Gregory Kaufman
Copy editing
Sean Michaels
The characters in the video
Philippe Lambert, Édouard Lanctôt-Benoit, Vincent Morisset &
Caroline Robert
Shot in Mauricie, Eastern Townships, the Laurentians and on the Mount Royal in 2014.
AATOAA
Directed and shot by
Vincent Morisset
Music and sounds
Philippe Lambert
Creative coding and technology
Édouard Lanctôt-Benoit
Animations, drawings, macro videos and costumes
Caroline Robert
Rotoscopy and tracking
Brandon Blommaert
Additional masking
Gregory Kaufman
Copy editing
Sean Michaels
The characters in the video
Philippe Lambert, Édouard Lanctôt-Benoit, Vincent Morisset &
Caroline Robert
Shot in Mauricie, Eastern Townships, the Laurentians and on the Mount Royal in 2014.
Production
National Film Board of Canada
Executive Producer
Hugues Sweeney
Head of Production
Marie-Pier Gauthier
Technology Manager
Martin Viau
Editorial Manager
Valérie Darveau
Administrator
Marie-Andrée Bonneau
Production Coordinators
Dominique Brunet
Caroline Fournier
Perrine Bral
Clerk, Interactive Productions
Angel Carpio
Marketing Manager
Jenny Thibault
Assisted by
Karine Sévigny
Information Technology
Sergiu Raul Suciu
National Film Board of Canada
Executive Producer
Hugues Sweeney
Head of Production
Marie-Pier Gauthier
Technology Manager
Martin Viau
Editorial Manager
Valérie Darveau
Administrator
Marie-Andrée Bonneau
Production Coordinators
Dominique Brunet
Caroline Fournier
Perrine Bral
Clerk, Interactive Productions
Angel Carpio
Marketing Manager
Jenny Thibault
Assisted by
Karine Sévigny
Information Technology
Sergiu Raul Suciu
Press Relations
Melissa Than
Nadine Viau
Technical Coordinator
Mira Mailhot
Sound Recording
Geoff Mitchell
Legal Services
Christian Pitchen
Coproduction
France Télévisions
Nouvelles Écritures
Boris Razon
Voyelle Acker
Cécile Deyon
Production Administrator
Sandrine Miguirian
Communication Officer
Antoine Allard
Technical Advisor
Emmanuel Souillat
Melissa Than
Nadine Viau
Technical Coordinator
Mira Mailhot
Sound Recording
Geoff Mitchell
Legal Services
Christian Pitchen
Coproduction
France Télévisions
Nouvelles Écritures
Boris Razon
Voyelle Acker
Cécile Deyon
Production Administrator
Sandrine Miguirian
Communication Officer
Antoine Allard
Technical Advisor
Emmanuel Souillat
Special Thanks
Antoine Avril
Sach Baylin-Stern
Marc Bell
Andre Bendahan
Henri Bernadet
Matthieu Beaumont
Mario Bouchard
Monique Bourdon
Marie-Ève Brisson
Isabelle Brouillette
Frederic Chamberland
Victoria Catherine Chan
Marc-André Chaput
Chloé Fortin
Piero Frescobaldi
Aaron Koblin
Catherine Leduc
Jean-Guy Morisset
Jérémie Morisset
Paul Morisset
Ravenne Portail
Claudette Raymond
Yves Renaud
Chris Robertson
Dominic St-Amant
Laurence Simard
Monique Simard
Serge Simard
François Turcotte
Unit9
David Valiquette
Antoine Avril
Sach Baylin-Stern
Marc Bell
Andre Bendahan
Henri Bernadet
Matthieu Beaumont
Mario Bouchard
Monique Bourdon
Marie-Ève Brisson
Isabelle Brouillette
Frederic Chamberland
Victoria Catherine Chan
Marc-André Chaput
Chloé Fortin
Piero Frescobaldi
Aaron Koblin
Catherine Leduc
Jean-Guy Morisset
Jérémie Morisset
Paul Morisset
Ravenne Portail
Claudette Raymond
Yves Renaud
Chris Robertson
Dominic St-Amant
Laurence Simard
Monique Simard
Serge Simard
François Turcotte
Unit9
David Valiquette
It's comin', hold on, it's comin'.
A world is getting ready for you.
A world is getting ready for you.
BY VINCENT MORISSET
PHILIPPE LAMBERT, ÉDOUARD LANCTÔT-BENOIT & CAROLINE ROBERT
PHILIPPE LAMBERT, ÉDOUARD LANCTÔT-BENOIT & CAROLINE ROBERT
You'll need to click 'Allow'. You can press ESC at any time
to pause and bring back the cursor.
to pause and bring back the cursor.