The ballad was written about a year ago in the spring of 2013. So, this summer Nikita decided to make it a cartoon.  

We quickly drew storyboards and Nikita's notebook lots of sketches appeared. We discussed a lot of animation and chips. Run for four or five textures of paper and paperboard. After a dispute, we chose one. Particular success was the paper for the background – "Kraft". It was found as it often happens, almost by accident!  

When Nikita draw the final version, he began to think how to move figure scraps. Initially, we planned to mount them on bamboo skewers. But they looked hard. Tried transparent plexiglass and cardboard strips, but chose thin strips of celluloid.  

The film was being shot for two days (it's very fast!). We were editing it for night. We were writing a sound for a few hours. And a few days engaged in grinding.  

"The Island" was ready in mid-August 2014.