Calm
1:30The series' namesake mood: a slow, meditative loop made to lower your shoulders. Longer and quieter than the rest, Calm is built to sit with rather than scroll past — light, air, and almost nothing happening, on purpose.
2.5D Animation • Lo-Fi • Periti Studios
Still Motion
A 2.5D animation series by Alexander Kiesel — motion that feels like a held breath.
Calm, lo-fi animated shorts built in layered 2.5D and shaped by the light-soaked atmosphere of Makoto Shinkai. Quiet worlds made to loop, breathe, and sit inside — created by Alexander Kiesel at Periti Studios.
Series
Still Motion
Format
2.5D Animation
Creator
Alexander Kiesel
Featured
0:59Summer Freedom
The breakout piece — picked up by r/aivideo for its calm, nostalgic, lo-fi mood.
Series
Still Motion
Format
2.5D Animation
Creator
Alexander Kiesel
Influence
Makoto Shinkai
Mood
Calm · Lo-Fi
Episodes
4 and growing
The Series
Four quiet worlds.
Each short is a standalone mood from the Still Motion series by Alexander Kiesel. Tap to play — they are made to loop.
Tokyo
0:54A quiet night drift through a rain-glossed Tokyo — neon reflections, empty crossings, and the hum of a city winding down. The most overtly Makoto Shinkai-influenced piece in the series, leaning on light, glass, and melancholy.
Rollerblade
0:50Golden-hour motion — gliding, weightless, carried by momentum. A study in how movement itself can still feel calm when the light and pacing do the heavy lifting.
More soon
The series is growing.
Summer Freedom proved there is an audience for this calm, lo-fi style. Alexander Kiesel is developing more Still Motion shorts in the same direction.
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Why it feels the way it does.
Depth, not flatness
Still Motion is built in 2.5D — flat illustration arranged in parallax layers so a single frame gains depth and drift. It sits between a moving painting and a film still, which is exactly where the calm comes from.
Light is the subject
Following Makoto Shinkai's lead, light does the storytelling: low sun, rain on glass, neon bleed, dust in the air. The pieces are less about events and more about a feeling you can sit inside.
Made to loop
Each short is paced to breathe and repeat without a hard ending. They are designed for the way people actually watch lo-fi video — on a loop, in the background, as a place to rest.
Context
Another side of the work.
Still Motion sits alongside Alexander Kiesel's film work — Red Empress, The Last Amazon, Periti Combat — as the quieter, more personal end of the same instinct: build a world worth looking at, then protect the feeling.
Where the film projects chase scale and tension, Still Motion chases stillness. Together they show the same director and producer working across very different emotional registers, all under Periti Studios.