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Quick update from the studio – we're shooting!!

Posted on January 29, 2013 by admin

It’s been a hell of a couple of weeks, but finally the Milo is standing in the studio – big thank you to Knut Lange -, our first set Marionette Theater has been set up and our wonderful animator Juan Soto is creating some magic. The first shot of the teaser is nearly done and it feels good to finally see things come to life after months and months of hard work. And the result is so astoundingly similar to the beautiful inspirational designs of Anne (Hofmann that is…) It is all thanks to an amazingly talented and dedicated team, who keep adding a little bit of themselves to Kara along the way. Seeing her move with a life of her own on that stage brought tears to my eyes.
But enough sobbing…We have some real nice making of videos coming soon, so keep an eye out for that. And the updates might be a bit more seldom and short these days, though we have more than ever to share with you, but first things first…we have a teaser to finish and a very tight deadline. So I’ll get back to work and leave you guys with these two pictures from our Waterloo Studios in Hamburg.

Marionette Theater set up in the studio

Juan Soto animating Kara’s marionette double

Posted in Animation, Kara the film, Shoot | Tags: animation, Marionette, Marionette Theater, milo |

Kara's "marionette" doubles

Posted on January 3, 2013 by admin

Our main character Kara lives with a marionette double, who appears on stage in the teaser. Through a recommendation we discovered the marionette workshop Prague where we got in contact with Mirek Trejtnar. We asked him to carve a tiny!! wooden marionette from our drawings and build a stop motion replica with ball-and-socket armature for that marionette, too. Both wooden. Both hand carved. And they came out as real twins! And they are beautiful.






Kara’s marionette and stop-motion ‘marionette’ doubles, Mirek Trejtnar


 

Posted in Armature, Character Design, Kara the film, Puppets | Tags: Marionette, Puppet |

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