Short film: "Chicory 'n Coffee"

[blz]

well, to be completely honest... i love it :)
the style is quite unique , animation is sweet, so are the characters.
You guys did a really great job.
Hopefully it wont be the last one from you, eagerly waiting for more :)
All the best!

[KenH]

About time you posted this Dusan. I love it of course and wish you well in the future. Good luck on the festival circuit. Five Stars!

[robcat2075]

That's a great look. I hope I can catch the whole film somewhere someday.

Congratulations on the premiere.

[agep]

It looks very nice and I wish you the best of luck. 5*

[Paul4wood]

Dusan, I know that you guys have put an enormous amount of love and care into this production and it shows. To you and all your team a very big congratulations! Looking forward to seeing the whole tale sometime.

Wishing Chicory n' Coffee every success at the festivals!

[pantomimik]

Great. Unique style, nice details. I especially like the graveyard scene. It is full of emotions. It would be nice to see the movie, hopefully soon.

[ypoissant]

Great style, character design, texturing, lighting and animation. I whish you all the luck in animation festival. I read on your blog that it is already on a very good path and the film is highly regarded by those who saw it. Keep up the good work.

[RobertoOrtiz]

Great short!
Plugged!

[Sil3]

Beautifull design, got me anxious to watch the whole movie. Best of luck on the Festivals

[king21]

Hej Dusan.

That is really great work. I know personally how much work was invested into this. And it came out superb. I love character design, i love the song , render is great. Since i am an animator i think animation could have a bit more love but hey overall i love it.

hope we see more of this stuff especially in a small country like Slovenia.

Good work, keep it up!

Jure.

[TMrevolution]

thats really nice- thanks for posting:)

[apprentice]

Omigosh, this looks fantastic! I personally like the style. Good job guys!

[musi]

It is a great shot!
I watched it several times right away, and enjoyed every time.
It's so good that it takes ones breath away.

[John Keates]

Really beautiful work there guys! Well done!

[animsennn]

Very Very Beautiful work! GREAT WORK!

[JTalbotski]

Fantastic work, Dusan! Congratulations and best wishes at the festivals.

Jim

[Heshamelshipli]

It is a masterpiece.
You are really talented.

[alesmav]

No pa smo koncno docakali !!! Trailer zgleda fantasticno, pa tudi animacija je fajn izpadla ker ma mal stop motion feeling. Character design je pa itak tvoj trademark :) Res upam da filmcek cimprej ujamem na kakem festivalu. Sem preprican da te caka se kar nekaj nagrad... Svaka vam cast da vam je uspelo izpeljati cel projekt, sploh s takim minimalnim budgetom... pa se z Animation Masterjem (kva je ze to za en softver? :). Juhej, se mi zdi da je prihodnost slovenskega animiranega filma se svetla.

Ales

[kikiriki]

Front page!!! :applause: Thank you very, very much! Me and my co-workers are very honored! I fell that all the hard work is finally paying off :-)

Hopefully it wont be the last one from you, eagerly waiting for more :)
All the best!
I noticed that you are a musician! Since you want to see more, maybe you will be interested in this one
http://kikiriki.cgsociety.org/gallery/733278/
It's a very old piece of mine I made for the band of my friends.

I whish you all the luck in animation festival. I read on your blog that it is already on a very good path and the film is highly regarded by those who saw it. Keep up the good work.
Thank you! Looks like yesterdays World premiere at the Cinequest in San Jose went well! Today I received three invitations to the festivals! So looks like the film will travel a lot in the future (mostly without me, since I'm having a little phobia from traveling. Taking my dog to pee every day is enough to satisfy my desire for traveling and adventures) So I'm sure you won't have problems to see the whole animation in the Festival near you. As soon as this festival circle will be over, I will post the whole animation on my Portfolio. So check it out from time to time.

I love character design, i love the song , render is great. Since i am an animator i think animation could have a bit more but hey overall i love it.
I agree... animation could be better. (well everything allways could be better. If I would do this Film all over again it would look very different) :shrug: To my defense those were the very first sequences we made. Latter ones are better. I planned that I will polish them a little more, after I will finish all other shoots. But unfortunately I was way behind the deadline (I have almost been sued because I missed the deadline) so I have to keep them in the final film. I picked this particular fragment in the trailer because it's shows the spirit of the whole movie.

It's so good that it takes ones breath away.
:love: I'm blushing :-) Thank you!

Fantastic work, Dusan! Congratulations and best wishes at the festivals.
Jim! Long time no hear! I see that you are doing just fine with C4D! Do you miss the old A:M days?

Juhej, se mi zdi da je prihodnost slovenskega animiranega filma se svetla
Ales, iz tvojih ust v bozja usesa! Ko bos kaj v Sloveniji, se mi prosim javi! Bomo sli skupaj z Juretom na pijacko!

THANK YOU ALL AGAIN! :wavey:

If you have any question, I will be happy to answer!

[lyppeter]

i love it !great job:love:

[jlz123]

very nice!

[samartin]

Great work, only one crit and that's regarding the movie quality, the cloth textures flicker quite severely on the youtube HD version. Shame but apart from that it's brilliant, I loved the baby popping up in the photoframe and the excited giggle :)

[calisto-lynn]

thats really amazing!!

[kikiriki]

the cloth textures flicker quite severely on the youtube HD version.

Yeah... flickering is visible because of the compression. There's no flickering in the original (uncompresed) footage or on 35mm film print.

[RCoryC]

Hej Dusan.

(snip) Since i am an animator i think animation could have a bit more love but hey overall i love it. (snip)

Jure.

"To my defense those were the very first sequences we made. Latter ones are better. I planned that I will polish them a little more, after I will finish all other shoots."


I worked on this project with Dusan, and although what he says is true, I feel I must say this in his (and my) defense as well, Dusan was looking for something other than the standard "CG animation" feel...we were leaning more towards finely crafted marionettes or somewhat of a stop motion feel...I remember several times Dusan would be looking at what I had done in a scene and tell me " It's too much! Tone it down!" and on occasion he would send me a scene he had done, asking me why I thought it was not working and I would reply " It's too much, tone it down...." so we both had to remember that we were not trying to compete with the likes of Pixar, but let Chicory have a style of its own. I think we succeeded :)

It's a beautiful film, and it was a real learning experience to work on it. Dusan did a fantastic job!

Cory

[Womball]

I can't wait to see this! Hopefully it will play in the Philly Film Festival?

[kikiriki]

I can't wait to see this! Hopefully it will play in the Philly Film Festival?

Do you mean this festival: http://www.phillyfests.com/ ? It looks great! But unfortunately I didn't submit it to this festival. :shrug: And now it's already too late. :banghead: But it's definitely on my list for the next year!

[Unik]

texturing, lighting, modelling, cuteness........everything was perfect...in short fantastic....

[sandidolsak]

Mind blowing. Respect.

[ISSAGAMAL]

10 STAR

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[NINO BANANO]

Congratulations Duzan...It´s a master piece...I love everything about it...

[remayo]

Predivno! I love it! Good luck with the festival circuit!

[LukeRandall]

Great work, I really like the rendering style, the character design and story, it was all pretty charming. If you are looking for feedback, the character animation was a bit weak and as a general note too slow throughout. Best of luck with the film!


Cheers

[simyevil2010]

amizing gob , i liket very mach

nice work

good luck

[kikiriki]

Thank you all for the feedback and nice comments!!! :love:

I got a couple of E-mails with questions when and where the film will be screened. Next 3 screenings will be at the US festivals:

33rd Atlanta Film Festival
16 - 25 April 2009 | USA
atlanta.bside.com/2009/films/chicoryncoffee_atlanta2009 (http://atlanta.bside.com/2009/films/chicoryncoffee_atlanta2009)

36th*Athens (Ohio)*Film Festival
24 - 30 April 2009 | USA
//athensfest.org/f/grab-bag-2 (http:////athensfest.org/f/grab-bag-2)

2nd San Joaquin Film Festival
14 - 23 May 2009 / USA
www.sjiff.org/sjiff09/programme.html (http://www.sjiff.org/sjiff09/programme.html)

Please check on my webpage www.bugbrain.com/chicory (http://www.bugbrain.com/chicory) from time to time, for the info about the future screenings.

Thank you again for your support! And if anybody will actually see the whole film on one of those festivals- I would really appreciate any feedback!

[benytone]

Excellent and so lovely work! :bowdown: :love: is an impressive work of art...fantastic!

[Sid Barnhoorn]

Very inspiring work, Dusan. Great work! :-) If you ever need any original music scoring done for any of your projects let me know. :-D Here's my website with some of my work: www.sidbarnhoorn.com (http://www.sidbarnhoorn.com)

Good luck with this in the festivals!

Best regards,

[Limmy]

Nice work! great look. congrats

[PapaNinja]

Impressive work. The rendering and the mod are fantastic !
You have a very original style. Hope we will see more soon :thumbsup:

[robcat2075]

"Chicory and Coffee" won "Best Animation" at the 15th Temecula Valley International Film and Music Festival last weekend.

festival program (http://temeculavalley.bside.com/2009/films/chicoryncoffee_temeculavalley2009)







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[etmed]

exellent short!!!

this style it's very original. ;)

[fgdf]

Fantastic work!
Just wanted to say it. Glad you made it
_BB

[smileyme]

This is really really nice and sweet. I love everything about it especially the character designs.

Congratulations on your world premiere! Wish I could see the whole film.... :)

[sundialsvc4]

Yeah. (ahem...) Wish we could see the whole film! :D

[glxtrix]

I saw this short at the Atlanta film festival and I loved it! Very good work.

[RCoryC]

I saw this short at the Atlanta film festival and I loved it! Very good work.

Hi,

I think I remember meeting you there....did you participate in the q and a session after the first screening?

BTW, it will be showing at the SCAD Film Festival, in Savannah, Georgia, the week of Oct 31 thru Nov 7th. I think the first screening will be on Thurs Nov 5th. I'll be there from the 5th thru the weekend, so come on down to Savannah if you get the chance.

Cory

[veljko-lemonade]

Great work guys!
I noticed your film will be at the Balkanima film festival-
looking forward to watching it there!

:)

veljko

[kikiriki]

Thank you so much for your nice comments and support! :)

My plan was to show the film on couple of Festivals and after that release the whole Film on YouTube to be available for everyone to watch. But film was quite successful at the festival and couple a days ago I even signed a contract with world distributor! Unfortunately that means that I'm not allowed to show my film on YouTube anytime soon. :shrug: :deal:

Since I'm getting quite a few requests from people who would like to see the film, I decided to make a compromise. :lightbulb YouTube have a special feature with which you can "hide" your film from public view and show it only to the invited ones (actually to 25 YouTube users listed as your "friends"). So if you really want to see the film, please:
-make a YouTube account (if you don't have one already)
-then go to my account ( www.youtube.com/user/bigbugbrain (http://www.youtube.com/user/bigbugbrain) )
-and set me as a "friend".
-After I will get your invitation to become "Friends" I will send you an invitation to see my film which will appear in "Inbox" of your YouTube account.

P.S. One of the "side effects" of getting a world distributor was, that we Synchronised the Film to English. Of course the English version is not as good as Slovenian (not only that lip sync doesn't match perfectly, a lot of the softness and humor of the original version was lost during translation. But anyway- only couple of lucky bastards that actually speaks Slovene can enjoy the original- the others will probably like this English version much more). You can watch the English "Trailer" at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFLxlfmVmF4&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFLxlfmVmF4&feature=related)

P.P.S. Veljko, I'm really honoured! I'm a big fan of yours "She who measures"! :bowdown: I'm still not sure, but I hope I will be able to attend to the Balkanima myself. So maybe we will meet and speak in person!

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