When we were assigned this project of creating a 3 - 10 second looping stop motion, all I could think about was the 6-word story challenge. With a very strict limitation, we needed to create a narrative as precise and evocative as possible. So Sana and I started with looking for stories or fables that we could draw inspiration from and started with the idea of "rebirth" as the word suggests repetition and allows us to leverage the looping quality as a feature of storytelling. 

We started ideating with origami, since the act of folding a figure lends to the idea of creating life and "killing" an origami figure is relatively accessible. However, the story sequence of creating an origami figure and then unfolding it is a common, almost cliche, subject for stop motion, so we pivoted directions and introduced the idea of shadow puppets into the storyline.