Also, in other incredible news, it’s been nominated for the Oscars 2018 in the category of “Animated Shortfilm”. Unbelievable!
All our love and gratitude go to the artists, animators, actors, engineers, musicians, the whole team and everyone who contributed to and supported this film with their hard work, some of which we show on our Instagram. Please, give them a hug and share their brilliant work.
Thank you team we love you! OvO
If you’re interested, why don’t you check out our official Revolting Rhymes instagram account? We post a lot of never-before seen artwork, sketches, character- and set-designs, colorkeys, storyboards and all kind of little treasures from the movie.
Examples above are from our
lovely teammembers Nadya Mira, Aurelien Predal, Pierre Zenzius and Pierre Nicolas Bayle, among others!
Also, check out this new sweet trailer Benjamin Quabeck edited for us!
By Christopher! A small update on Revolting Rhymes. We’re incredibly happy and lucky that over the past months, the film has been making its rounds on the film and animation festivals of the world, and even won a few prizes along the way! Thank you to everyone who came out to see the film, to everyone who thought it deserved a prize and of course, again to everyone who worked so hard to make it.
- TIFF KIDS Adult Jury Award - Best in Show Indiefest - Best Animation BANFF (nominated Grand Jury Award) - Shanghai TV Festival Magnolia Award “Best Storytelling” - Annecy Best TV Production Grand Cristal - 7th Singapore International Children’s Film Festival: Best animated Film + Audience Choice Award - Best TV-Special Award at the 10th Festival of European Animated Feature Films in Kecskemét, Hungary - Filmfest München Kinderfilmfest Audience Award - Portugal Vilho de condo - Anima Mundi 2017 Sao Paolo Audience Award
(Photocredits: Sarah Scrimgeour and Annecy Animation Festival)
In related news, there’s even going to be a theatrical release of Revolting Rhymes in France and Belgium! Wowza!
It starts in France under the wonderful name “Un conte peut en cacher un autre” on October 11th, and follows shortly after in Belgium beginning November 1st!
So, no updates for quite some time… the reason for the hiatus of this blog was Revolting Rhymes, a Christmas Special consisting of two half hour shows, airing on 26. & 27. December/6:30 pm on BBC1. It’s based on the short collection of the same name by famed Roald Dahl! By Gollikins!
I was lucky to co-direct the films together with my old pals Jan Lachauer and Jakob Schuh, and lead an incredibly dedicated and hard working team of artists. What a treat it was to work on this project over the past two years! But also a stupefying amount of work.. :)
Last week we finally finished the grading of the films and I am incredibly relieved to see these two beautifully crafted films. A thousand thanks to the amazing team at Magic Light Pictures Berlin and London, at Triggerfish Cape Town, at Woodblock and a few Freelancers all over the world, without whom none of this would exist.
Thanks also to our delicious voice cast including Dominic West, Rob Brydon, David Walliams, Leslie Rose, Tamsin Greig, Gemma Chan, Bertie Carvel and Isaac Hempstead-Wright.
Check out some of these images as appetizer and two trailers. In the coming weeks I’ll write a few more words on the project, but for now I must rest..
Latest 3D animated short by Alan Warburton arranges office equipment as sculptural compositions, and has been described as ‘existentialism for middle managers’ - video embedded below:
Hi everyone! Thanks to the fine people at Cartoonbrew, my film “Ophelia: Love & Privacy_Settings” is part of this year’s CBTV Student Festival an finally online for everyone to view! Please enjoy and check out all the other fantastic films.
Thanks again to all of the wonderful people who helped to make Ophelia!
As I slowly descend into the depths of a new land called Drangleic, I turn one last time to say farewell to the lands of Lordran. To say farewell to the men, the brothers, the sons I encountered. The figures that stood by my side, but were lost to the Abyss.
Your bodies may turn to rotten flesh, but your dark souls I shall carry with me.
This is a farewell to Artorias, Siegmeyer, Solaire and Havel.
UPDATE: There is now a Qwertee vote for this illustration. If you’d like to see the Bros of Lordran on a t-shirt, please vote for it! Thank you! :)
Here’s a project I worked on last year, Jacob Frey’s shortfilm “The Present”. It’s really beautiful, if you have the opportunity to see the film on festivals please go and support our film :) I made some very early preproduction paintings, for scene ideas, color moods, lighting designs. I also designed the living room the film plays in, with set dressing, prop design and architectural studies. During production I’d also do overpaints over renders for lighting clues, BG re-arrangements and composition changes. For some of these lighting studies I even did rough lighting setups with Renderman!(out of all renderers…)
Here are some of the lighting and color moods. Enjoy!
Guys, I am happy to announce that I’m now being represented as animation director by Woodblock!
Woodblock is the new animation production house born out of the clan of the Polynoid, with locations in Berlin, Ludwigsburg and Munich! Check out the website woodblock.tv to see the good work and spirit on offer. Next to the Polynoid guys, the kickass team of directors consists of Physalia, Regina Welker, Gottfried Mentor, collective Crave and yours truly, the Biniman.
I’m currently reading Ivan Brunetti’s “Cartooning” (which is a very enjoyable book), and its inner title drawing struck me. It’s hard to pinpoint exactly why, but I absolutely love this drawing, and in a way, I think it’s actually perfect. Maybe it’s the composition, the line quality, its textures. The expressed emotions of happyness and contentness, the slightly crooked leg of the woman(?) on the left, her hair. I have looked at it for hours, and will continue to do so for a little more.
Good news everyone! #PartyBueno is finished! We got over 700 (!!!!) characters submitted by you guys. Incredible! I don’t know what to say… Check out the game over at newgrounds: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/629687
See all the cool, cute, funny, disturbing and slightly perverted characters, which were uploaded, over here:
Thanks to the Major Bueno guys Bene and Majus for letting me help with the game and the poster, and for bringing me along to the Spielsalon Kassel. We sat with our workstations next to the festival-bar and workedworkedworked while people were drinking, which means partying and working at the same time! Not only was it fun, but the students of the Kunshochschule Kassel who organized the whole event were kind and generous. Uli, we miss you! :) Thanks also to the volunteers making music for our game, especially the amazing mad polish scientist of video games, Sosowski, who made some on-the-fly 90ies Trance-Techno-music for our game while sitting at the bar. You can listen to his tracks here: https://soundcloud.com/sosowski/sets/party-bueno Shitty Techno never sounded so awesome!
