Olivier Nomen kindly shared his co-production experiences during seminar of co-production in animation industry in Prague (Czech Republic), organized by the Association of Czech Animated Film (ASAF).He is freelance consultant in business matters and also working in Studio 100 Animation and we talked about main pillar of co-production. Hi Olivier, could you, please, tell us what does […]
Author: Karolína Čížková
Interview: story of stop-motion animation legend Barry JC Purves
Well known British stop-motion animator Barry JC Purves is one of the best animators in the world. His animations looks like real action sometimes. Barry co-operated on many animation projects, teached professional animators from big studios and travel around the world to show his animation skills. You are really famous in animator´s community, but nobody […]
Congratulation! Tim Burton celebrates 60th birthday! Let’s slander!
Timothy Walter Burton (from now rather just Tim Burton) celebrates his 60th birthday! If Tim had been born a few years earlier, in 1913,he would have invited Walt Kelly to celebrate with him. Walt Kelly was Disney animator, who would have to blow out 105 beautiful candles today. But back to Burton, who is animating […]
Interview with founder of Prague Splash Festival Michal Benda
The 14.th Splash Festival in September will be full of workshops, lectures, and opportunities to meet professionals and studies around the world. Speaking about computer animation, modeling in 3D, storytelling, computer games, visual effects or the concept of art and illustration. Michal Benda is the head of the whole festival and we could not ask […]
Swedish animation studio Mindbender a their original animation
In the Swedish animation studio Mindbender there is a charming short 3D animated film The Food Thief with a cuute little cat! Funny stylization also doesn´t missing in other creations that these Swedes are wandering into the world. Because of the great animation and realistic structures, we even forgave the studio for cooperation on The […]
Interview: animator Jasper Kuipers (NL) about Netherlands animation
Jasper Kuipers is important part of our Animator´s Calendar 2018, his art was graced in June. Jasper is animator from Netherlands who has already finished short stop-motion animation movie Finity Calling. You can see the movie in many animation festivals around the world. We asked Jasper about animation schools and animation industry in Netherlands. He […]
Interview: Denisa Grimmova & Jan Bubenicek about Czech Animation Industry
Animators, artists and directors Denisa Grimmova and Jan Bubenicek are working on the production of the feature animated film Even Mise belong to Heaven (Fresh Films). In the interview, you will read not only about the making of the Mice, but also about the evolution of animation studies in FAMU (Film and TV Academy in […]
Interview: Ilaria Comisso about the relation with the marionette and the animation puppet
We met Ilarii Comiso at the November Doll Prague Exhibition. She presented her wooden marionettes and we were next to with Animuj stand. We just fell in the eye and all weekend we talked (not only) about animation and puppets. Ilaria is from Italy, but lives in Berlin. In addition to marionettes, she also produces […]
2.díl: Making of the Goose: real puppet and a ball to 3D
As we already wrote in the last post, where we showed you the complete 3D modeling of a realistic model of the house, we will look now how to transform real model of puppet to digital 3D. Then is same puppet animated in digital form. The result is original look and you still feel the […]
1. part: Making of the film Goose: making animation props
As promised in the last article, where we write about the newly created combined animated film the Goose (2020) by Jan Mika from Filmofon studio, we bring you the first making of video! Although a large part of the film comes from animation software, the preparation phase can not be done without the model´s making. […]