Robotblog: February 2009

Papa Pedro Papa Jack in Toronto

New Adventures with Jack and Pedro - Papa Pedro Papa Jack has been selected to be part of the Sprockets International Film Festival for Children in Toronto, Canada. The festival will be taking place from April 18th to April 24th 2009.

For more information on the festival visit the sprockets website

Watch the trailer for New Adventures With Jack and Pedro here.

Boo and Baa in Gothenburg

There is still a chance of watching Boo and Baa at Gothenburg Film Festival! It is screened in the programme "Svenska Bilder 5" on friday 30 january.

The premiere screening was great fun! The festival audience was giggling most of the time, and laughing out loud sometimes too. We are looking forward to watching the film with more kids in the audience to see if they giggle at the same jokes!

Boo and Baa world premiere

The world premiere for Boo and Baa will be at the Gothenburg International Film Festival 2009.

Screenings on january 23, 26 and 30.

The festival also have an extra focus on animation this year, so go there!

http://www.filmfestival.org/filmfestival/

All play but no clay

On some occasions it actually happens that we walk outside our studio, into the real world, filming real people! Here's a live video we made for the trash/death-metal band Die Hard in december:

Directed and edited by Staffan, filmed by Staffan and Anna Erlandsson and Erik Hansson.

Behind the scenes - Boo and Baa have company

Here are some images from when we built the sets for Boo and Baa.

If you take a look at the book Boo and Baa, Have Company (Bu och Bä får besök) by Lena and Olof Landström, you will see that the models we built is looking very much like the original illustrations. We wanted to keep the world for Boo and Baa very close to the world kids already recognize from reading the books. But we also wanted to give Boo and Baa a more real world for the film. We wanted to give the picture more depth, so we choose to build models instead of using illustrations for the backgrounds.

Here is a collage I made to find the feeling of the garden.

Then I made a simple mock-up in the studio, to get the size and perspective right.

I put the picture in the computer to pick colours for the houses.

Then we started building the houses. Here is Annika Bergström painting.

The houses in place in the studio. Annika at the camera.

The photo for the background turned out like this (after some adjusting in photoshop).

And the image from the finished film.

(written by Anna Erlandsson)

Bu och Bä får besök / Boo and Baa have company

We have just finished making an 8-min short film for children, Bu och Bä får besök / Boo and Baa have Company, based on the book with the same name by Lena and Olof Landström.

Working with us on this project was Annika Bergström (inniki) as model maker and animator. Producer was Francy Suntinger (Speedfilm), narrator Sissela Kyle, music by Markus Jägerstedt (Monster och maskiner, Cirqus Alfon), sound and mix Torsten Rundqvist (ljud & form).

The film will be screened at Folkets Bio and broadcasted on the Swedish Television in the beginning of 2009. Dates will be posted on this page later so check back with us soon.

Behind the scenes - Allti Kartong

Vi har designat och byggt kartong-robotarna till barnprogrammet Allti Kartong för UR, som kommer att visas på SVT i vår. Inhyrd för att bygga var Kristina Sandfors, som gjorde en strålande insats!