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This blog is moving - Bloggen flyttar

2011-03-02T11:47:00.000+01:00

Röda roboten animation has moved this blog to our updated website. Everything is now on the same site: video clips, photos and blogposts. So from now on go to www.rodaroboten.se for all news about Röda roboten animation. There is now a Facebook profile for Röda roboten too. Welcome!

Röda roboten animation har flyttat den här bloggen till vår nya uppdaterade hemsida. Både filmklipp, foton och alla blogginlägg kommer från och med nu ligga på www.rodaroboten.se. Röda roboten har nu också en Facebook-sida. Välkommen dit!

Boo and Baa around the world...

2011-01-07T13:35:00.005+01:00

Boo and Baa Have Company (2008) is going to festivals in 2011 too! It has now been selected to be part of the 6th Annual Children's Film Festival Seattle, the 6th annual REDCAT International Children’s Film in Los Angeles, Freeze Frame 15th annual Festival in Winnipeg, Canada, and International Children's Film Carnival, Hong Kong.

Seattle and Los Angeles are also screening Sixten, Bedtime, a short film that was animated by Röda Roboten Animation and directed by Liselotte Blomberg of the Swedish Television.

So far Boo and Baa Have Company has been screened at and accepted to festivals in Sweden, Japan, Norway, Germany, Mexico, Uruguay, Indonesia, Brazil, Great Britain, Iran, Slovakia, Bangladesh, Czech Republic, India, China, Canada and USA!

Röda Roboten wishes to thank the fantastic Renate Zylla for helping us with contacts to many of these festivals! You can read an interview with this experienced and committed festival agent and festival director at ECFA's website. Her support and her appreciation of our films Boo and Baa Have Company and Sixten, has meant a lot to us!

Jack och Pedro på SVTB

2010-12-08T16:34:00.004+01:00

Nu visas våra tre senaste filmer om ormen Jack och sköldpaddan Pedro (från 2006) på SVTB igen. Den första, Pedros konstutställning, visades i måndags. Men de andra två hinner du fortfarande se:

Jack bakom galler visas måndagen den 13 december kl. 18.00 i Bolibompa, och Pappa Pedro Pappa Jack visas måndagen den 20 december samma tid.

Kom ketchup så går vi

2010-11-19T12:39:00.002+01:00

We are currently making a TV-series in cooperation with the Swedish Television called Kom ketchup så går vi (meaning "Come on ketchup, let's go!" which is the Swedish translation for the punch line of the joke about two tomatoes crossing the street (Catch up!). It is funny since in English this punch line is a play on words, but that got completely lost in the Swedish translation... Still, every child in Sweden knows this joke. And it is sort of funny even without the pun!)

The series is clay animation and here are some behind the scenes photos for you:

(Jag blandar engelska och svenska helt hämningslöst här på bloggen, men från och med nu skriver jag svenska med grönt för tydlighetens skull...) För tillfället producerar vi en TV-serie för barn som heter Kom ketchup så går vi. Det är en samproduktion med SVT och den kommer såsmåningom att visas i SVTB. Här är några bilder:

We are making very simple characters for this series. Here I am making six eggs out of styrofoam and clay.

Vi gör väldigt enkla figurer till den här serien. Här gör jag ett sexpack ägg av frigolit och modellera.

Setting the scene. It all takes place in a kitchen cupboard.

Här sätter jag fast rekvisitan och figurerna. Handlingen utspelar sig i ett skafferi.

Our set up with the Canon camera and the laptop with Stop Motion Pro on it.

Vi använder en Canon stillbildskamera och programmet vi använder heter Stop Motion Pro.

Staffan animating another scene with grandpa potatoe telling the small potatoes a story :)

Här animerar Staffan en scen med gammelpotatisen som berättar en historia för småpotatisarna!

Written by Anna

Nya vinjetter på SVT / New title sequences for SVT

2010-10-26T11:45:00.000+02:00

Röda Roboten has made three new title sequences for children's programmes at the Swedish Television. To watch the programmes click the links below.

Röda Roboten har gjort vinjetterna till Myror i brallan, Mäta med skägg och Philofix som för närvarande visas i SVT. Till Myror i brallan har vi även gjort scenografin (Fakta-Fannys lilla trädstugas interiör). För att se programmen, klicka på länkarna nedan:

Myror i brallan

Mäta med skägg

Philofix

New Philofix Title Sequence by Röda Roboten

2010-09-03T10:52:00.002+02:00

The new season of the children's TV-show Philofix is starting soon on SVTB, and Röda Roboten made the new title sequence for the show. It is based on the same idea of the studio as a miniature model as we made for the show earlier. Very soon it will be up at the website too!

De nya avsnitten av Philofix kommer att gå på måndagar kl. 18.30 med repris lördagar kl. 10.10, med början den 13 september i SVTB. Röda Roboten har gjort en ny version av vinjetten till programmet. Den bygger på samma idé som den tidigare vinjetten, med hela Philofix-studion som en miniatyrmodell. Vi kommer snart att lägga upp vinjetten på vår hemsida också.

Two Röda Roboten-films at Divercine Festival in Uruguay.

2010-06-04T09:36:00.001+02:00

Boo and Baa Have Company and Sixten have been selected to be part of this year's Divercine Festival for Children and Youth in Uruguay. The festival takes place from 12'th to 18'th of July 2010.

To see a short clip from Boo and Baa Have Company click here. For Sixten click here.

Short report from Stuttgart Animation Festival

2010-05-26T10:28:00.001+02:00

Boo and Baa Have Company was screened in the "Tricks for Kids" section of the Festival of Animated Film in Stuttgart a couple of weeks ago. I went there for the weekend to watch some great new animation and to attend my screening of course.

The weather had been bad with lots of rain during the festival week, but when I got there on the saturday the sun was shining and it was almost summer compared with cold, cold Stockholm!

Boo and Baa was screened on the final sunday of the festival in the Metropol 1. This venue has 360 seats and it was full to the last seat! (Watch a clip from Boo and Baa Have Company here!)

There were lots of kids in the audience and they seemed to like Boo and Baa a lot! The film was live-dubbed into German by a voice actor. After the screening I got to answer the children's questions about how the film was made. It was great fun! One of the kids took the mic just to tell me he liked this film! :)

The award ceremony on the sunday evening was a bit boring for me since I don't understand German. But the good part of it was I got to see all the winning short films! Boo and Baa was beaten in the Tricks fot Kids section by the half hour long "The Gruffalo" by Jakob Schuh and Max Lang.

The winner of the short film section A family portrait by Joseph Pierce was excellent! (The image above) Very funny and grotesque! And another brilliant short is the winner of best music award Love & Theft by Andreas Hykade. Hypnotic!

All in all a great weekend in Stuttgart! (written by Anna)

Boo and Baa Have Company goes to Uruguay and Brazil!

2010-05-21T10:54:00.000+02:00

Boo and Baa Have Company has been selected to be part of the Divercine Film Festival of Children and Youth in Montevideo, Uruguay. The festival takes place from 12'th to 18'th of July 2010. Click here for the Divercine website (only in Spanish).

It has also been selected to be in the competitive Shorts for Children-section at Anima Mundi International Animation Festival, in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, Brazil. The festival takes place from 16'th to 25'th of July in Rio de Janeiro, and 28'th of July to 1'st of August in Sao Paulo. Click here for a comlete list of selected films at the Anima Mundi website.

Hitta Läsningen

2010-05-12T16:06:00.001+02:00

New clip on the website: samples from the graphic design and animations we did for the Educational DVD "Hitta Läsningen!". Produced by Svenska Barnprogram AB for Kod-Knäckarna.

Click here to watch the clip.

Three Röda Roboten-films at Goelali Children's Film Festival!

2010-04-30T10:35:00.000+02:00

Boo and Baa Have Company, Papa Pedro Papa Jack and The Ballerina Frog has all been selected to be part of the Goelali Children's Film Festival in Jakarta, Indonesia!

The festival will take place from June 12th - 20th at the Miniapolis & Multifunction Hall, Plaza Indonesia, Jakarta. If you are in the neighbourhood go and check it out! For more info about the festival visit their website.

Bu och Bä i Midsommarkransen

2010-04-23T10:00:00.001+02:00

Nu på söndag den 25 april kan du se barnfilmspaketet Bu och Bä och Jaguaren på biografen Tellus i Midsommarkransen, Stockholm. Filmpaketet visas kl 15.00 och kostar bara 30 kr!

För att hitta till Tellus-biografen klicka här.

Boo and Baa in Germany and in the Czech Republic!

2010-04-21T14:22:00.002+02:00

Boo and Baa Have Company has been selected to be part of the competitive programme "Tricks for Kids" at this year's Festival of Animated Film Stuttgart in Stuttgart, Germany. The festival takes place from May 6'th to 9'th, 2010.

It has also been selected into the competitive section of animated films for children at ZLÍN 2010 – 50th International Film Festival for Children and Youth in Zlín, Czech Republic. The festival takes place from May 30'th to June 6'th, 2010.

See you there!

Boo and Baa in India

2010-03-31T14:57:00.000+02:00

Boo and Baa Have Company has been selected to be part of the Short Animation Competition Section of the 2nd CMS International Film Festival in Lucknow, India. (6 - 12 April 2010)

For more information about the festival visit their website.

Jack och Pedro i Uppsala

2010-03-31T12:02:00.001+02:00

Jack och Pedro på nya äventyr visas på Fyrisbiografen i Uppsala, söndagen den 4 april och måndagen den 5 april kl. 14.00.

"...de tre nya filmerna ger mersmak och det är bara att hoppas att vännerna kommer tillbaka snart." (Björn G Stenberg UNT 2010-03-26. Läs hela recensionen här.)

Sneak peak at new Philofix title sequence

2010-03-03T10:08:00.012+01:00

We recently did some shooting for a new title sequence for the show "Philofix", produced by Svenska Barnprogram for SVT. The sequence is based on miniature models and in-camera effects, and just a small amount of post-production trickery.

Here is photographer Alma Linder, preparing for the final shot.

Backside of the model, with fiber optics to simulate all the small lights in the real set.

A special rig was constructed for the graphic trees and the logo, which are moved in place during the shot.

And here is a frame from the shot! The final sequence will be put on our web after broadcasting this autumn.

Jack and Pedro in Canada

2010-02-25T15:24:00.007+01:00

New Adventures with Jack and Pedro - Papa Pedro Papa Jack has just been screened at REELKIDS festival in Petersborough, Canada. "Wonderfully amusing" to quote the description in their programme... :D

Röda Roboten-filmer på bio

2010-02-22T12:52:00.007+01:00

På Fyrisbiografen i Uppsala visas nu Bu och Bä får besök på lördagar och söndagar kl. 14.00. Filmpaketet fick fyra kajor i Uppsala Nya Tidning i förra veckan. "Ibland kan man känna abstinensen efter små barn att gå på biomatiné med. Extra mycket känns det när jag ser ett så utmärkt program som dessa tre små animerade filmer..." (Björn G Stenberg, UNT)

På Södran i Lund visas Ballerinagrodan (fram till den 25 februari) och Jack och Pedro på nya äventyr (den 28 februari till 18 mars).

Tellus bio i Midsommarkransen, Stockholm, visar Bu och Bä får besök söndagen den 18 och sändagen den 25 april.

En stund med... på SVT Play

2010-02-22T09:32:00.004+01:00

Nu ligger En stund med... ute på SVT Play. Kolla in!

Röda Roboten has made the opening credits for the Children's TV-series En stund med... (One moment with...) and also to Ella och Viktor (Ella and Viktor) now available at SVT Play. The animation for Ella och Viktor can also be seen at our website.

En stund med... premiär på SVT!

2010-02-12T10:25:00.006+01:00

Måndagen den 15 februari till tisdagen den 2 mars visas En stund med... på SVTB kl. 08.10 alla vardagar. Det är en dokumentär barnserie i 12 delar till vilken Röda Roboten har gjort vinjetten. Serien kommer också att visas kvällstid senare i vår.

Vinjetten kommer snart upp på vår hemsida.

På SVT Play ligger nu senaste avsnitten av Ella och Viktor, som vi också har gjort vinjetten till.

Ella och Viktor animation now online

2010-01-18T09:51:00.009+01:00

Our latest animation - the opening credits for the children's TV-series Ella och Viktor (showing on SVTB, wednesdays at 18.30 and saturdays at 08.25) is now on display at our website!

Click here to watch the film clip.

Ella och Viktor premiär

2010-01-07T14:42:00.006+01:00

Under hösten gjorde Röda Roboten vinjetten till två barnprogram på SVT. Nu är det dags för premiär på ett av dem:

Ella och Viktor visas på onsdagar kl. 18.30 på SVTB, med start den 13 januari, samt lördagar kl. 08.25 med start den 16 januari. Ella och Viktor är en dokumentär serie för barn om Ella som ska börja förskoleklass och Viktor som ska få en lillebror. Vinjetten har vi gjort i samarbete med Inniki.

Vinjetten kommer vi snart att lägga upp på vår hemsida!

Bu och Bä får besök - gratis på Filmhuset!

2009-12-04T11:02:00.004+01:00

På söndag den 6 december har Svenska Filminstitutet barnfilmsdag med gratis visningar av svenska animerade barnfilmer. Bu och Bä får besök visas i det första filmpaketet för dagen.

Andra filmer som visas är den underbara Dunderklumpen av Per Åhlin och Beppe Wolgers, Prick och Fläck snöar in av Lotta och Uzi Geffenblad och Vem ska trösta Knyttet? av Johan Hagelbäck.

För program och tider klicka här

November update

2009-11-17T11:55:00.006+01:00

Röda Roboten has just finished making two new opening credits for the SVT children's programmes En stund med and Ella och Viktor. The programmes will be broadcasted in the spring 2010. The opening credits we made will be posted on our website soon.

We are also making animations for an educational DVD. More information about that shortly.

Other news are that Boo and Baa Have Company has just been screened at Fredrikstad Animation Festival, Norway.

Röda Roboten at Stop Motion Pro website

2009-10-15T10:03:00.002+02:00

Did you know that the excellent software Stop Motion Pro has animator profiles on their website, and one profile is Röda Roboten Animation. On the profile Staffan is giving you some technical information about how we made Jack and Pedro.

Check out the profile here

Live from Cartoon Forum

2009-09-24T10:20:00.013+02:00

Or, perhaps not live, but still a report from within.

We pitched Jack & Pedro yesterday, and it looked like this:

It was great fun and people were really interested. We'll see what that leads too.

The Cartoon Forum is really huge, with 700 people participating. Before the pitching sessions, all are gathered to watch the trailers for the upcoming pitches.

It is also important to look cool, which we did in the oufits that Anna created for us.

In this picture is from the left Staffan Erlandsson (director and animator), Francy Suntinger (producer) and Jan Vierth (writer).

In between pitches there is a lounge for informal meetings and networking, where you can also buy food and beverages at ridiculously high Norwegian costs.

There are also social events, like a boat trip to the fjords. Which was cool! It felt like going into Mordor.

That's all for this report. We will stay here two more days, to watch pitches and network with the animation industry. Wish us luck!

It's Cartoon Forum Time

2009-09-22T12:10:00.003+02:00

Today is the first day of Cartoon Forum 2009 in Stavanger, Norway. Jack and Pedro is there, to be presented to financiers from all over Europe.

If you are at the Forum, you are welcome to our pitch in Room 1 at 15.40 on wednesday 23:rd!

Watch our Jack and Pedro Cartoon Forum Trailer here.

Farbror Freddy i Expressen och i Göteborg

2009-09-21T13:20:00.007+02:00

"Farbror Freddy är en klockren, tecknad liten punkfilm berättad av en Johannes Brost i högform."

skriver Hanna Höglund i Expressen den 7 sep. Läs hela recensionen här.

Och nu kommer Farbror Freddy till Göteborg! Premiär på Hagabion den 26 september. För biljetter och tider se http://www.hagabion.nu/

Filmen visas fortfarande i Stockholm också, på biografen Zita. http://www.zita.se/

Premiär för Farbror Freddy får en knäpp

2009-09-02T13:26:00.005+02:00

Nu är det dags för premiär igen!

Folkets Bio visar kortfilmen Farbror Freddy får en knäpp (Uncle Freddy Goes Bana-na-na-nas) tillsammans med den ryska animerade filmen Choo Choo, i ett barnfilmspaket med namnet "Farbror Freddy och Choo Choo leker loss!"

Farbror Freddy får en knäpp är en samproduktion mellan Zut, Barbra, Röda Roboten Animation och Förlaget Hest & Sön. Martin Eriksson står för regin, Jonathan Sjöberg skrev manus, Sune Christiansen gjorde illustrationerna och Röda Roboten animerade, med hjälp av Annika Bergström/Inniki. Alla röster gjordes av Johannes Brost.

Premiärvisningen är på biografen Zita i Stockholm lördagen den 5 september. För mer info och biljetter se Zitas hemsida.

Se ett klipp från Farbror Freddy här.

Boo and Baa at Tokyo International Film Festival

2009-09-01T09:55:00.004+02:00

Although Boo and Baa Have Company did not get the award for best film at Kodomotachino Kinder Film Festival in Tokyo last week, it still won a new audience in Japan. It was very well recieved by the audience and the festival staff.

At the festival Boo and Baa Have Company was selected to be screened as part of "Best of Kodomotachino Kinder Film Festival Tokyo at TIFF". Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) takes place from 17th - 25th of October 2009.

Boo and Baa in competition in Tokyo

2009-08-18T10:11:00.005+02:00

Boo and Baa Have Company is the only Swedish film in competition at the Kodomotachino Kinder Film Festival in Tokyo this year. Other films in competition are for example the 2007 Academy Award winning film "Peter and the Wolf" and the Russian animation "Proude Mouse".

The films are screened at three different venues in Tokyo with live voice-over by professional voice-over actors. A children's jury will select the winner of "Kinder Bird Award".

The festival dates are 9th to 23rd of August 2009. For a complete list of all 10 films in competition click here.

Jack and Pedro at Cartoon Forum

2009-07-06T13:00:00.006+02:00

Jack and Pedro has been selected to be part of the Cartoon Forum 2009. The forum will take place in Stavanger, Norway, from 22 to 25 of September 2009.

Staffan Erlandsson (director, Röda Roboten), Jan Vierth (script writer) and Francy Suntinger (producer, Filmlance) will be travelling to Norway to present the project to financiers from all over Europe.

Click here to see all selected projects.

Jack and Pedro at Facebook

2009-06-03T12:15:00.006+02:00

Do you like Jack and Pedro? Support them by going to their profile at Facebook and become a fan! There will be news, photos and video clips posted there continously.

Boo and Baa Have Company goes to Tokyo!

2009-05-19T14:23:00.005+02:00

Boo and Baa Have Company has been selected to be part of the 17th Kodomotachino Kinder Film Festival Tokyo 2009.

The festival will take place from 9th – 23th of August 2009. For more info about the festival go to http://www.kinder.co.jp/

SVT visits Röda roboten studio

2009-05-14T13:22:00.006+02:00

You can watch a clip of us working in our animation studio if you watch the Philofix episode from 11/5 (available at SVT Play until June 23). In the first clip you can see Annika Bergström and Staffan Erlandsson dressing Pedro's apartment for the film Pedro's Art Exhibition, and in the second clip Annika is making a brush and palette for Pedro. Also there is a short clip from the finished film.

Click here to watch the clip.

New film clips on the web site.

2009-05-14T12:59:00.008+02:00

Click the images below to see the clips.

Allti Kartong, the TV-series for which we made the two cardboard robots Allti and Lilla Röd.

And a clip from the TV-series Mattepatrullen from 2005.

Child talking about Papa Pedro Papa Jack at Sprockets

2009-04-30T11:29:00.008+02:00

This kid at the Sprockets Film Festival in Canada talks about what part he likes the best in Papa Pedro Papa Jack:

"I like when the penguin sang, and when the elephant went outside and sang with him."
"Would you recommend this to your friends?"
"Yes, I would!"

Watch the clip at:
http://www.sprockets.ca/player.aspx?video=LootBagPedro.flv

Sweet! :D

Jack and Pedro at Variety's blog

2009-04-27T13:08:00.006+02:00

Last year New Adventures with Jack and Pedro was screened at Redcat International Childen's Film Festival in Los Angeles, USA. This blogger at variety.com commented our film at two of his "five top things" from the festival... :)

Published February 17, 2008:

Top five things about Redcat's kid's fest

Top five things about the 3rd annual Redcat International Children's Film Festival in downtown LA, running now through March 2:

5. You can cry and laugh as loud as you want and not be asked to leave.

4. You don't have to be high to watch animals talk, and to understand them. (see #2)

3. Wearing diapers to save a bathroom run is okay.

2. No one questions the domestic partnership between a turtle and a snake in "New Adventures with Jack and Pedro" (Sweden). They both like tea. Why wouldn't they live together? I mean... Duh!

1. Five bucks!

Michael Jones is the film festival editor atVariety.com.

http://www.variety.com/blog/1390000339-33848.html

Galapremiär på Zita

2009-04-14T11:13:00.006+02:00

I väntan på att vi själva får upp några bilder här från premiären på Zita kommer här en länk till Lars Epsteins blogg på DN där han lagt upp ett par fina bilder från evenemanget.

Bu och Bä premiär på bio

2009-03-30T16:33:00.008+02:00

Nu är det dags för nästa premiär! Bu och Bä får besök kommer att visas av Folkets Bio i ett knattepaket tillsammans med Jaguaren av Mattias Gordon och Schack av Pernilla Hindsefelt.

Lördagen den 4 april är premiären på biografen Zita i Stockholm. För tider och visningar i andra städer klicka på "biografer" på www.folketsbio.se

Allti Kartong Premiär!

2009-03-25T09:50:00.005+01:00

Nu är det snart premiär för Allti Kartong, UR-programserien till vilken Röda Roboten designade och byggde två robotar av kartong. (Se tidigare inlägg för bakombilder från bygget)

Dessa två robotar, Allti och Lilla Röd, kommer att undersöka världen enligt olika teman varje avsnitt. I första avsnittet är temat regn.

Första programmet sänds torsdagen den 2 april kl 18.00 i Cirkuskiosken, Barnkanalen.

Foto: Erik Amkoff

Bu och Bä på SVT

2009-03-11T16:21:00.002+01:00

För er som (liksom vi själva) missade TV-visningen av Bu och Bä får besök på SVTB för ett par veckor sedan kommer nu en chans till:

Lördagen den 21 mars kl. 08.35 kommer den att visas i Barnkanalen (SVTB). Så masa er upp ur sängen och bänka er framför Bolibompa!

Manus X

2009-03-10T16:36:00.006+01:00

Idag är det premiär för "Manus X", en tv-serie där tolvåringar skriver manus till kortfilmer. Filmerna regisseras av eteblerade regissörer, och spelas med kända skådespelare.

Serien produceras av Svenska Barnprogram, och Röda Roboten har gjort vinjett och grafisk design. Programstart 18.45 i SVTB.

Här är en bild från vinjettinspelningen! Notera även den snitsiga kameravagnen som vi byggde särskilt för ändamålet.

Själva vinjetten kan förstås ses på vår hemsida: http://rodaroboten.se/filmsidor/manus_x.html

Papa Pedro Papa Jack in Toronto

2009-02-02T16:27:00.001+01:00

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

2009-02-02T16:26:00.000+01:00

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

2009-02-02T16:25:00.000+01:00

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

2009-02-02T16:18:00.002+01:00

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

2009-02-02T16:09:00.005+01:00

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

2009-02-02T16:06:00.002+01:00

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

2009-02-02T15:11:00.015+01:00

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!

Här testar Kristina Sandfors en tidig skiss-dräkt.

Hans Lindqvist testar dräkten som börjar ta form.

Kristina med delarna till Allti och den lilla röda roboten.

Dräktprovning.

Behind the scenes - New adventures with Jack and Pedro

2009-02-02T11:04:00.002+01:00

Anna is dressing the set for winter.

Staffan is animating the little bird Ossian singing.

The snowballs are animated on a stick, which is later removed in the computer.

An overview of the kitchen set.

Anna is animating Jack trying to feed the mischievous little Ossian.

Sound rehearsal with the actors: Victoria Dyring (Constable Fleece), Frida Normark (Pedro) and Johar Bendjelloul (Jack and Mr. Elephant)

Annika Bergström is making a giraffe for the art exhibition jazz band.

Our studio is full of eyes...

Staffan is making Pedro's shell out of sculpey.

Our singing and walking birds need many different mouths and feet.

Niklas Nilsson is making a double-bass for the band.

Staffan in the studio with the camera in place.