Protoplanet Studio

Morgen startet in Hamburg das Junge Kurzfilm Festival - und „Vor meiner Tür auf einer Matte“ wird bis einschließlich Samstag viermal im Kinderprogramm „Gezeiten“ gezeigt werden 🙂 Wir freuen uns sehr! Termine und Kinos oben im Bild ⬆️

It’s been rather quiet around here lately…. And it’s going to be this way for months to come.
We’re deep into animating the next short, „The shuddersome Shush“ („Der schaurige Schusch“) after the book by Charlotte Habersack and SaBine Büchner; and this time it comes down to choreography. Well, at least section-wise.
What looks somewhat all over the place in the above image is an indicator how meticulously some things have to be approached in this field if you don’t wanna end up completely messy. So this time – after much improvisation on previous films such as PAWO or META – we rely on full-blown animation layout in the classical sense. The path is kind of like practising on the piano for hours, days and weeks… digging unceasingly, waiting for the expression to sip through. Something which goes for this medium in general, it seems.
And then, eventually, it happens. When it does, it’s always a kind of miracle, sensation and satisfaction. There’s a finalized shot… and everything looks so easy; like the most natural thing to occur. As it should!!
Up to that point it’s setting oneself in slow motion mode.