This doesn't happen often, but yet I am left speechless after watching Going West, a beautiful short film illustrating the hidden worlds in a book by employing papercraft and stop-motion animation. It was designed and brought to life by Line Andersen of Andersen M Studio, and produced by the New Zealand Book Council:

What it makes my this week's favourite is, it

• incorporates papercraft
• is dreamlike, magical and literally wonderful
• also well animated and it's
• simply a beautiful piece of art.

Like no other human activity reading opens up our imagination,

New Zealand Book Council states at the Council's website, and if you watch this promotion video you'll feel how true this must be... The clip's name refers to a book with the same title written by Maurice Gee. Extracts from his book's text provides a sort of script to the animation.

I feel helpless and angry with Andersen M Studio because their video is done so beautifully – and because it's exactly that kind of impression I'd like to give in my current project. I looked up their portfolio, they did some other animations at the same level of quality. And now I just don't want to copy their style... These paperworks just make me feel stunned and touches something deep inside me.

I don't believe in coincidences, at least not really. And so I just enjoy getting lovely recommendations from a dear friend while at the very same moment I just turned up and ordered a book on papercraft myself. Now I have to crawl myself through another field of wonderful discoveries... What a shame!