I started something I couldn't finish

 It's a song by the Smiths, and it's also what happened with my Hourly Comics Day attempt this year.

 

That's it folks! No hours, no ending. It looks like a promising start for a day but I remember rest of it being quite a blunt Sunday with quite a lot of scrolling. 

 

After an effective and work-filled January, I've felt tired and grumpy through most of the February. Except for the teaching days when I know where I have to be and what to do. This Spring I'm for the first time not only an advisor, but a Supervisor. It feels fancy and I try to live up to the responsibilities. 

 

As for what comes to doing my "own stuff", the started hourly comic was kind of the high peak of the month.

Let's see what's up in March, the month of many missed festivals and the month I should officially start my script writing (woop woop! Scientists have proven that even a person with a script writing grant can feel themselves periodically grumpy.)

 

Now I'm off to Helina's dance class. Take care, you cute fools who keep returning to this distant corner of world wide web!

 

This felt grand.

 

kuuenergiaa

 In Logisaun, Tallinn

tunne hellin, voimakkain

 

ja rulli vaikselt üles

 I'm going to Helsinki for January. I'm going to miss Kaisa's dance classes a lot!

kuinka kaukana lensinkään...

The year came to an end and so did my patience as teacher.

  

 

trailer of fredrikstad animation festival 2024

 

This video didn't agree to appear bigger here, so you can watch it in Youtube.

Last year I made the trailer for the oldest animation festival in the Nordics, Fredrikstad Animation Festival 2024. 

(Curious observation is that the free drinks and snacks in the festivals do not correspond with the richness of the host country. The most generous festivals I've been to are in Slovenia and Croatia, while the Nordic festivals with their stingy / very limited offerings AND expensive beer usually leave the poor film makers even poorer.)

Trailers are nice jobs because usually you get to do them in your own style. I was happy about this job but it happened at the same time as my printmaking residency in Typa, Tartu, which meant I couldn't fully commit to neither. And of course making this trailer took much longer time than expected. One could think (I thought) that one-shot scene is easy to do. But it's not! It's endless moving of layers back and forth in the timeline.

I learned a great deal about communication in commissioned work, and that I have to get better at it. The greatest fault I did was to assume things and not to double-check everything with the graphic designers. Also using raster-based software for animation meant that I had to re-draw things that would be printed huge. In the end I was drawing the big-version details in the middle of the night, crying, before catching the ferry the next morning to Stockholm what would start our road trip to Norway where me and Aggie would teach in Volda... But that's another story!

I was thinking about tennis and then went to watch Luca Guadagnino's "Challengers" which I kind of enjoyed. This film didn't lack of sweat and techno! In the end I changed tennis to badminton. Why, I can't remember.

 

The real deal. My cry-drawn characters floating in fame.

  

The sound was made by a great sound designer and the best producer in the world, Jani Lehto from Böhle Studios.

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