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It was the summer I got fleas.

Posted on September 29, 2017 by admin

 
It was the summer I got fleas. The summer of small sticky alleys, tooting of distant big ships, loud street sellers and piss stink stronger than the morning sun.
It was the summer of my first kiss.
 
This timelapse video gives you a close look at behind the scenes of one of my favorite parts in the teaser, where Kara meets her flea-ridden friend on the rooftops of Yesilcam. It is a continuous camera move where the animation began on the rooftops and ended on the floor, through the window of a tiny kiosk. The sets were taken out and light matched  mid-shot to make it all happen.
Animated by the wonderful Dobrin Yanev, this shot took us about 3 weeks to complete, not counting the set building and prep time.

Posted in Animation, Kara the film, Making of, Shoot | Tags: animation, emek sinemasi, Kara, making of, Mr. Fleas, shoot, Timelapse, Yesilcam |

Yesilcam – Setup

Posted on April 23, 2013 by admin

Final touch up in the studio before the shoot.


Matthias Daenschel putting the final touches to paint details

The setup in the studio before lighting


 

Posted in Kara the film, Shoot | Tags: Set building, shoot, Yesilcam |

Landscape style frames

Posted on February 23, 2013 by admin

I am always in awe of what Anne manages with a few brushstrokes (I’ll probably get a call from her about this little word “few” in here…) Anyway, here are some “rough” style frames she prepared as guidance for compositing and matte painting from the landscape set we recently shot.
 




Posted in Inspirational Artwork, Kara the film, Shoot | Tags: Landscape, matte painting, style frame |

Highway to Istanbul – II

Posted on February 21, 2013 by admin

“A lonely bus travels on an inter-city highway under a crescent moon.”
How much work can such an innocent sounding sentence from the script create, you might ask. Well, here is the answer: a round-up of the 2.5 weeks of shoot on the ‘landscape’ set. (And this is excluding the set and prop building…which we blogged about in detail some weeks ago.)
 

landscape_roundup

Click image for video


 

Posted in Kara the film, Shoot | Tags: Istanbul, Landscape, shoot, Timelapse |

And as for the light…

Posted on February 7, 2013 by admin

… here is a test picture fresh from the set, which should be added close to the animation tests below, as green isn´t Kara´s favourite background colour. Warmer tones suit her complexion better.

In front of Ayse Teyze´s kiosk.

Posted in Kara the film, Shoot | Tags: Kara, lighting test, shoot, Yesilcam |

Marionette Theater round up

Posted on February 4, 2013 by admin

It’s about 1 am in Hamburg, Germany and I stand in the studio as I write this post. It’s been non-stop for our small but fine team for the last few weeks and there is no end in sight just yet…so I have to squeeze in a quick update between lighting and camera and s3d set ups, timing and animation briefings.
Currently we’re on our third – and most complicated – set up. We’ve built a part of the historical Yesilcam Street in Istanbul – complete with Emek Sinemasi (movie theater facing closure despite protests), done our first pre-lighting and camera set up, soon to start blocking. But more on that set later…For now, I’ll leave you with this time-lapse summary of the Marionette Theater set up / take down. My favorite part is seeing the animation…The video makes the humongous work we left behind look too easy – I wish real time was as fast and effortless as time-lapse makes it seem!
 

Timelapse summary of the Marionette Theater set-up

Posted in Kara the film, Shoot | Tags: animation, Marionette, Marionette Theater, shoot, Timelapse |

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 |

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