Great to be part of Moving Art festival in Ålesund 4- 7 march. There was a art-walk around town where all the works was presented. It was a really atmospheric evening, and lovely to see the film screened on a building, outside. The film was also screened with sound inside Torghallen.
A huge thanks to the artist at Aggregat kunstfelleskap for inviting the film to the festival and this really special event!
Hurrah! Eternal Hunting Grounds was screened at TIAF – Tbilisi International Animation Festival, 2- 4 November 2018, in Tbilisi, Georgia! Thank you for inviting the film.
Very happy that Eternal Hunting Grounds was screened at this years HIROSHIMA festival – The 17th International Animation festival in Japan on the 23 August 2018 in the Estonian program!
HURRAY! The film is coming to NEW YORK! “Eternal Hunting Grounds” is to be screened in the competition program at North America’s largest film festival for kids and teens:
The 2018 New York International Children’s Film Festival!
The festival will take place over four weekends between Feb. 23rd & March 18th in venues across New York City. Eternal Hunting Grounds will be part of the following program:
Heebie Jeebies. That program will screen on the following dates and times:
Sunday, February 25, 2018 5:15 PM Cinepolis Chelsea
Saturday, March 3, 2018 1:00 PM Scandinavia House
Saturday, March 10, 2018 4:30 PM SVA Theatre
Sunday, March 18, 2018 2:45 PM Cinepolis Chelsea
If you are in New York please go along – and maybe I see you there!
Here is a bit more about the festival
So – the shots from the birch forest are now all nearly done, I have to say
they turned out very atmospheric!
Andres Tenusaar has helped us animating some shots too, which has been great.
All the panning, zooms and tilts of the camera are done manually – frame by frame. By either moving the camera inch by inch, or by moving the glasses manually using a turning handle. Doing it like this, creates a less smooth movement, which suits the aesthetics of the film. If the film is made on a multiglas animation table- it should be done all the way like that!
Not suddenly start using digital pans and things, that can look very mechanical.
In one of the shots we did, the aim was to capture the children’s perspective as they are walking through the birch forest. All the foliage had to be right up close to the children’s eyes, and slip away as they walked through it. For this shot, Sergei was sitting up on top of the camera rostrum. While he was moving the camera frame by frame towards the glass table, Andres was animating the plants brushing past gradually, as the forest opens up.
There was also insects flying, and a beautiful spiderweb with a spider climbing past. The web was made by Külli. The web had to be fitted on to the glass by several hands for the web not to be broken.
I won´t share so many stills just yet, as it´s a secret off course until the premiere! But here is one from the previous mentioned shot, and some from the set building.
