Z

Directed and Animated by Alan Warburton. Commissioned by Animate Projects for Channel 4’s Random Acts series. Soundtrack by Max Richter. ‘Z’ is composed entirely of z-depth images - also known as ‘luminance depth’ or ‘depth map’ images. Z-depth is a ghostly black & white data-driven format native only to CG animation. The function of the z-depth image is similar to radar or the MRI scan. It interprets objects within a scene according to distance: those closest to camera are black, those furthest away a