10/09/08
Production Stills: Funnest
We’ve been working on an exceptional, frankly fairly nuts, project for the past couple of months. I’m not going to say much at this stage, other than (1) it’s for 4th Estate, (2) it’s a short done entirely in stop-motion animation (3) yes, we have built 6 sections of a city made entirely out of books, and (4) it’s really, really good fun.
More details after the jump.
These are some production stills from a couple of sequences in the film for 4th Estate, which will be out early next year.
The Market: Wide view (see stills camera at the front)
This stall actually has minature versions of the 4th Estate titles in the shot. The statue is made of lego.
Working out the animation. Note Individual character animations on the brown card.
Silly hat day on set. By set we mean converted front room in Harringey. With 9 animators, art directors and modelmakers sleeping on set for 2 weeks.
Working out the shots for the museum district. Things were simpler then.
Home-made dolly for the rising camera in the final sequence. Note MacBook Pro in background taking time-lapse of entire shoot.
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# Pingback by Stop Press for September 15th | booktwo.org @ 12:34 am, September 16, 2008:
[...] Times Emit: Production Stills: Funnest – Sneak peek at a rather fun work project we’ve been on for a few weeks. Is going to be really, really good. [...]
# Pingback by Have a great weekend : RobHinchcliffe.co.uk @ 9:17 pm, September 19, 2008:
[...] Stop animation using books. These are just photos from the shoot, so imagine what the end product will look like. [...]
# Pingback by Times Emit: 25th Estate: This Is Where We Live @ 2:58 pm, December 1, 2008:
[...] At last! We can show you the awesome project we were working on earlier this summer. [...]
# Pingback by strangerpixel > Bookselling in stop-motion @ 6:36 pm, December 1, 2008:
[...] full-screen HD. The producers used 1,000 4th Estate books and spent 3 weeks holed up in a flat during the summer to produce the movie, which cleverly plays on the themes of the books on display [...]
# Pingback by 5th Estate · 25th Estate: This is Where We Live @ 8:52 am, December 3, 2008:
[...] books to build a world, and an everycity made from the world’s literature. (You can see more production stills over at our blog, Times [...]
# Pingback by >>> DUMAIS’s Outtakes >>>: A blog about photography, animation, video and other stuff. @ 12:16 am, July 31, 2009:
[...] Ventilate.ca daily visit – thanks for that by the way. You’ll find some production pictures here. It makes me wonder why most of the time I find brilliant animated, artsy and avant garde work it [...]