Kom ketchup så går vi

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

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

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.

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

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!

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

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.