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Claymation - Crab Pull

Low water, first light

A handmade tide pool drains at first light, and its residents come out to read the paper.

A clay tide pool at low water, hermit crabs among the pools, a starfish reading the paper and two seals looking on.
[PLAY WITH SOUND]
Place
A tabletop reef, San Clemente
Tide at the shoot
−1.4 ft · 5:42 AM
Made for
Website hero · Instagram
Delivered
8s intro · 7.5s loop · vertical cut · stills

01 · The place

Crab Pull is a tide pool built by hand. Clay rocks, felt clouds and a lighthouse that stays on all day, home to hermit crabs with firm opinions about shells, a starfish who never misses the morning paper, and two seals who mostly supervise.

02 · What we found

At high tide the whole set vanishes under one rolling clay wave. The story is what the water leaves behind, the pools and the anemones and a small crowd of crabs deciding it’s safe to come out.

03 · What we made

A short intro where the tide draws back, handing off to a quiet loop of the pool at low water. It opens their homepage, with a vertical cut for the feed.

The whole tide pool at dawn, from the lighthouse on the left to the seals on the right.
A clay starfish leaning on a rock, reading a folded newspaper.
Hermit crabs in small pools of blue water, one hauling an oversized spiral shell.
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