Thiago Maia is a Brazilian director, designer and animator. For the past 6 years, he has been in London where he had the opportunity to work with some tremendous people producing work for the Cartoon Network, BBC, Microsoft, Pepsi, Nickelodeon, RedBee, Sky and Nokia (to name a few). His work is a mixture of styles and media, and he continuously experiments with original and creative solutions.

Thiago’s imagination of a perfect world was the inspiration for his machine. It transforms paper back into trees (the reverse process performed by humans). Flying hands would come and collect the paper to feed the machine and plant the trees in the earth – doing the manual work for us. In reality, we need to do our part and help the environment by using less and recycling more.

Sound Design by Marcelo Baldin

A Short film for Julien Vallée’s Challenge Your World project with Motionographer.