Good news from Asia: In Korea our shortfilm “The litte Boy and the Beast” won 2011’s Grand Prix at SICAF in Seoul, in Thailand the film was recently awarded as “The Best Short Film suitable for older than 7 year old.” We’re very happy, thank you! (click on image to embiggen Uwe Heidschoetter’s lovely design.)
Soi’s shortfilm “Princess’ Painting” will have quite a few screenings at worlwide festivals in the upcoming months.
Don’t miss it if you are planning on going to either one of these events:
* SICAF – July, 20th (Korea) section «TV-Film»
* Anima Mundi – July, 15th – 31st (Brasil)
* Nueva Mirada – September, 1st – 7th (Argentina), section «Sweet Dreams»
* Fantoche – September, 6th – 11th (Switzerland), section «Kinderfilme»
* KROK – September, 24th – October, 3rd (Ukraine)
* Ottawa – September, 21th – 25th (Canada), Television Animation for Children Category
This year we will be showing our latest short “Princess’ Painting” at the Animation Festival
in Annecy. Luckily Ben Bocquelet’s “The Amazing World of Gumball” is part of the same
programme with the episode “The Quest”. Don’t miss the opportunity to watch both at these
dates:
Tuesday 7th June: 10h30 Décavision / Salle 1
Wednesday 8th June: 14h00 MJC Novel
Thursday 9th June: 16h00 Décavision / Salles 3&4
Friday 10th June: 14h00 Salle Pierre Lamy
And catch up with Soi’s director Klaus Morschheuser who will be present at the festival!
Nous vous souhaitons une bonne projection!
We’re delighted to hear that “The Little Boy and the Beast” has been awarded as Best Animated Short Film at the New York International Children’s Film Festival. The NYICFF states as its mission “to promote intelligent, passionate, provocative cinematic works for ages 3–18 and to help define a more compelling film for kids.” We’re very happy to have been been a part of this. Thanks to the audience and the jury!
Also the film won the German Emil Award for outstanding TV programmes for children and got the special jury commendation at the Heart of Gold Gold Festival, Australia.
Upcoming events that will screen the film are:
Dresden Filmfestival (Germany, April, 12th to 16th)
Aspen Shortfest (USA, April, 10th to 15th)
Sprockets Toronto International Film Festival (Canada, April, 5th to 17)
Citrus-Cel-Animation (USA, April, 8th to 10th)
Anirmau (Spain, April, 26th to 30th)
Two projects we’ve been involved in will be part of this year’s competition in Annecy: “The Amazing World of Gumball“, helmed by our friend Ben Bocquelet, will premiere an episode at the festival. Studio Soi was in charge of technical direction, modeling, rigging, parts of the rendering, layout as well as the title sequence. Our latest short film “Princess’ Painting” by directors Klaus Morschheuser and Johannes Weiland will be competing in the TV-special competition. Also this year in Annecy: Studio Aka’s latest short “A Morning Stroll“, directed by the always amazing Grant Orchard and “Daniel, une vie en Bouteille“, directed by our friend and collaborator Louis Tardivier.
If you are in Brussels for Anima 2011 this week you have several opportunities to take a look at our work: Our shortfilm “The Little Boy and the Beast” will be screened on Wednesday, March, 9th at 5:30 pm in Studio 5 and a second time on Thursday, March, 10th at 9:30 pm in Studio 4. Also there is a special screening that shows only films by studio soi. The screening will include “The Gruffalo“, “Oli’s chance” and “Angel afoot” amongst others. The screening is scheduled on March 11th at 8:00 pm in Studio 4. Soi’s co-founder Torben Meier will be present and happy to answer any questions.
Today we completed work on the Cartoon Network series „The Amazing World of Gumball“. The series was developed by our friend Ben Bocquelet and produced by Dandelion Studios Ltd together with Boulder Media Ltd and Studio Soi.
Soi was involved since the show’s early days, starting from initial tests, working on the show’s Layout/Blocking, modelling, rigging, shading and rendering of the Characters and sets and also contributed the show’s opening titles.
The creative spirit of the whole series and the many good friends we were able to work with made it a wonderful joyride to work on „Gumball“ and we’re looking forward to the wrap party this week in London!
Cheers and à bientôt to the whole Mannschaft!
Some more preproduction from “Der Grüffelo”, which you can watch on ZDF this Christmas, December 24th at 10.40 am.
Different production stages from the film’s “swamp sequence”, from top to bottom: Initial location design by Manu Arenas, set dress and prop design by Jakob Schuh, sculpt by Helena Ebel, location supervisor Klaus Morschheuser putting final touches on the set, lighting reference for CG by Louis Tardivier.
Manu Arenas’ wonderful, early b/w concepts (top and middle) inspired the “field of dandylions” sequence, which was later further visualized by the very talented Louis Tardivier (bottom).
