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“For the Love of Toast” animation reimagined for MoFad

Title: “For the Love of Toast”: An evening of bread and all things toasted—An interactive exhibit at the Museum of Food and Drink (MoFad)

Media and technology: Interactive Projection Mapping

Dimension: Exterior of MoFad: ~40×9 ft, Interior spaces vary


Description: Museum of Food and Drink (MoFad) invite you to an evening of all things toast.

Attendees will be imme

rsed in a sensory showcase of interactive art exhibits, short film screenings, bread tastings, and historical connections to bread. Guests will experience baking demos from local businesses, explanations of the science involved breadmaking, and the chemical reactions that take place within the oven to make the bread.

When arriving, guests will be greeted by moving toast projections on the front exterior of the building. The images will be taken directly from the animation “For the Love of Toast.” The projections will also be interactive: as the attendees enter the field of projection, the toasts will move around them

.All exhibits will be interactive. Guests will get to use our “Smell” machine to learn about the chemical compounds in the smells of breadmaking: yeast, sourdough, toasted bread, burnt bread, cinnamon, fire, smoke, wheat, and rye.

Toast art exhibits will fill the space: bread sculptures, a photo collection of Religious toasts featuring toasted images of Jesus and Mary, and an exhibit of bread labels from the early 1800’s to today.

There will also be a discussion of how food is embedded in our cultural history and the American colloquialisms that involve bread: “Bread and butter” and “The greatest thing since sliced bread,” and how they became parts of our everyday language.

  Benefits and outcomes:

People will gain a better understanding of the history and science behind breadmaking and toast.  Local bakeries and breadmakers will also get exposure and make personal connections with potential clients.










For the Love of Toast

“For the  Love of Toast” 

I feel like the Badger from the book “Bread and Jam for Frances.”  I love toast an obscene amount, and I often make up songs to sing while eating it. Coincidence?  I think not.

Badger Frances + Jam

Human Frances + Jam










This final animation will be my Ode to toast.

The Plot Proposal: “For the  Love of Toast”

Intro: Person is in their kitchen, putting bread into the toaster.  The suspense builds as they wait for the toast to be done.  IT is taking a long time.  This scene is created using hand drawn 2D animation or rotoscoping.

Development: In a delirious desperation, the person starts to see toast and toasters everywhere.  The fridge is a toaster, the door is a toaster—even the house is a toaster!  (insert hallucinogenic Phenakistiscope sequence).

Turn: The persons is sucked inside of the toaster, being toasted (perhaps this could be a claymation sequence?).

Conclusion: The persons pops out of the toaster. The toast eats the person. The person is crispy.

The end.

My objectives for this project:

  1. Become better acquainted with Aftereffects
  2. Create a scene that uses:
    1. a Phenakistoscope animation OR
    2. some sort of claymation
  3. Practice with morphing scenes together
  4. implement creative transitions from one scene to the next

I am excited for toast.