Above: Max Lang’s initial turnaround, which first gave the Gruffalo (drawn exclusively from a side view in the childrens’ book) a threedimensional treatment. Below: Early preliminary sketches and a modelsheet based on Max’s turn-around, both by Jakob Schuh. Maquette by Klaus Morschheuser. See “The Gruffalo” on Dec. 24th, 10.40 am on ZDF.
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).
“The Gruffalo” and “The Little Boy and The Beast”, together with Soi’s Jakob Schuh, recently visited The Windy City to find that our films had won three awards at the wonderful “27th Chicago International Children’s Film Festival“. “The Gruffalo picked up “The Best of the Fest” and a Second Prize for “Best Animated Short”. “The Little Boy and The Beast” was awarded as “Best Animated Television Production”. We’re very happy, we had a great time there, thank you, fine people of CICFF.
Soi’s director Michael Sieber just has produced the follow-up ad for the Maggi campaign. Leading in and out of Germany’s classic daily soup “Marienhof” a family of spoons gets overexcited.
Soi’s Torben Meier recently went to Portugal to accept the “Prémio Curtinhas” at the 18th Curtas International Film Festival. See snapshot above.
We’re delighted to hear that Soi’s “The Gruffalo” has been awarded ‘Best Short for Children’ at Anima Mundi, Sao Paulo, and was a runner up for the same award at Anima Mundi, Rio de Janeiro. Soi’s “The Little Boy and the Beast” won ‘Best Short’ in Sao Paulo and again was the runner up for the same award in Rio. The Professional Jury also awarded Marcus Sauermann’s script for “The Little Boy and the Beast” as ‘Best Script’.
If you want to catch two of our films in Annecy next week, here's where and when: "THE GRUFFALO" ( TV programme n°2 ) Decavision 1 08/06/2010 10h30 MJC Novel 09/06/2010 14h00 Decavision 3+4 0/06/2010 21h00 Salle Pierre Lamy 11/06/2010 16h00 "THE LITTLE BOY AND THE BEAST" ( TV programme n°4 ) Salle Pierre Lamy 07/06/2010 16h00 Decavision 3+4 08/06/2010 21h00 Decavision 1 10/06/2010 10h30 MJC Novel 11/06/2010 14h00
Today we received an issue of “CG magazine” from China with a few great looking pages about the making of Soi’s “The Gruffalo”. We have no idea what it says, but it looks very nice. Have a look at the rest of the pages here… Continue reading
This month “The Little Boy and The Beast” go to Portugal, Germany and Spain. You can watch our short at the IndieLisboa Festival in Lisbon (22.04 – 02.05.2010) and at the “Goldener Spatz” in Erfurt & Gera (25.04. – 30.04.2010) as well as at the Festival Animabisauri in Bilbao (23.04 – 30.04.2010).
Studio Soi has illustrated a series of 18 posters based on our commercials for Frankfurt Airport. Here’s some of the drawings Sebastian Koch did for for the campaign:
“Straße der Spezialistennew publication” is being featured in a lush called SHOWREEL 0.1. The coffeetablebook contains a brim-full DVD, an interview with the directors and loads of fantastic imagery from almost everyone we admire.A book worth buying.
Finally Japan’s very stylish MAC POWER devotes its Oct. issue to “66 movie directors you must know”. Standing there amidst Baumbach, Clooney, Anderson, Glazer, Gondry, Shynola, Psyop and Sean Penn made us feel sort of big in Japan.
On Nov. 30th Soi and Deutsche Bahn will be holding a release-press conference for Soi’s latest shortfilm “Olis Chance” at the Bahnmuseum, Nürnberg. The film was comissioned by DB for the use in classrooms around Germany and was directed by Soi’s Saschka Unseld and Johannes Weiland.
