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Little Big Forest
Finally we got the blog up and running. This project is going to be legen - wait for it - dary. LEGENDARY! From now on you can keep yourself posted with our daily success and struggles through our...
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Starting up the project
So, finally the blog is up and running! A short introduction for it might be in order..."The Forest" is the working title of a Bachelorfilm from The Animation Workshop, set to be finished summer 2009....
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More concept work
A concept of a young rabbit looking too closely at the moon.Here's some quick sketches of Victorian countryside animals.
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Backgrounds
These are concept photos shot during a location scouting in the forest of Dollerup.And here are some concept backgrounds shot during the same trip (daylight) but then magically manipulated in Photoshop...
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Our marvelous Cast
These bad boys were created last week. Feel free to comment, any input is valuable.We don't have any pictures of our process creating them, which is a horrible, horrible mistake. But we started...
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Location spotting trips
Here's a couple of ekstra pix from a couple of trips to the forests in Dollerup, looking for locations.
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Creating a puppet.
This week is going beyond fast! I am creating our main character for animation testing next week and Tobias is working on the storyboard. The rabbit is the right size but it is only for testing. It's...
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Rabbit!
The rabbit actually is pretty easy to animate, but also easy to breake. We got to make the finish puppet with changeable arms and legs or else it is going to be hell. Longer legs would be nice too!I...
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Lineup
After 5 weeks of preproduction we're off for the christmas holidays, giving the project a rest. The animatic is getting closer and closer to the finished thing, and the character designs are now almost...
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Happy New Year!
To show we are back from the holidays, I am posting some of the animation test done in the basement. The rabbit was damaged under the shootings, one of his arms broke off. I guess making him jump and...
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Rabbit and nature.
Yesteday we were out location spotting for a small hill, where the ending is going to take place.
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Back in the basement.
We've begun building the clay versions of the final puppets. Most of the lower face will be cut out, so different expressions can be inserted. There is still a lot of testing to be done!
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Follow up...
The last week has been so hectic that I have not had the time to update. Which is (not counting the few people reading this blog) a good thing. We started making the puppets out of aluminium wire,...
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Moving forward....
Adding fur on the naked rabbits. A huge thanks to Maiken, who has a name which I'm probably is spelling wrong.
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Farewell Tod
With our preproduction almost over we had to say goodbye to our storyboard supervisor, Tod Polsen. All the groups made a "bling bling" photo to remember us by, and this is our addition.
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Yikes. Sorry for the slow update folks!
Quick update, we have finally moved from the basement to an actual studio, and are now using our supervisor old space. There are still small adjustment with the puppets that needs to be made but...
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Building and Creating
These pictures are a mixture of the chairs being made in Tobias' basement, and when we were making the last mouths.
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"Slutspurt"
Okay, we are approaching the end. I could start rambeling about, but instead I am going to show the paper given to me by Tobias. This paper is explaining what the next weeks have in store, sadly it is...
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