i was born to be a stumbling man

 

 

I drew these after Helina's dance class, scanned the drawings and added some digital in-betweens. 

animated thing from february

In February I made this 34-frames long animation on a "Disciplina" notebook bought from Portugal. 

I improvised the animation as I went and animated straight ahead, but the thin paper allowed me to see the previous drawing very well and made it easy to follow the movement.

I started this in the beginning of the month and ran out of ideas around page 15 (when the guy starts turning). In the end of the month I got the idea that one character could divide into two, and finished the book. 

This pace of ideas is one reason of why I finish one film in a decade. But I'm not ashamed of it!

 

 

row, row, row your boat

 

Another tetrapack printing Sunday. I was told lately that bird is good for anything. There's not much possibility to get confused with the movement of the hair but it happened anyway. Oh, well!

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.

turku animated film festival 2024

I made a poster, dozen of visual variations and a trailer for TAFF this year. I said: "I'm not a graphic designer" but they didn't listen. 

 I know nothing about fonts, so I googled "art deco font". Then I copied some letters and went with it.

It took forever. It was nice to have free hands. Some people said free hands situation parallizes them but I was happy. I spent a lot of time listening to music, don't know what "fiilistely" is in English but that's what I did. Drawing and dreaming. It wasn't very effective process but it was fun.

 

 

 

The two last photos are the courtesy of Turku Animated Film Festival.

You can watch the trailer here: https://vimeo.com/995324371

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