Blik (2010) - Graduation film

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We finished this film late 2010 as our graduation project at the Utrecht school of the Arts. It’s been making its way around festivals and was screened at the Annecy Animation Festival a couple of weeks ago. Now we’re very happy we can now finally show it online!

It was created by Sander Kamermans, Jean-Paul Tossings, Piebe van der Storm and myself. You can watch it here:

http://vimeo.com/25475500

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwywgzJoVT0

Full credits, stills and additional information can be found on our new studio’s website:
http://www.polderanimation.com/blik.htm

#2

Absolutely loved it from start to finish both times I watched it. I’m quite surprised that noone did put a reply in yet. Only critique might be that the timelapses got a bit repetitive in the end, but perhaps their lenght is needed to not mess with the pace of the film. Still a great job!

#3

Very cool. Great style and simple story told well. :slight_smile:

#4

A++ Great style of showing a story. I liked it. Thanks.

#5

nice job guys ! story like form almost every guy childhood :slight_smile:
Really nice animated and like yours style.
little bit to long for me but great job anyway !

#6

Awesome style! The crisp shadows are fantastic.
I like the story. The animation has a great stopmotion feel to it.
My only crit: There is a popping leg at 1:54

#7

Wow, enjoyed every minute of it. Who would have thought you could capture emotion so well without facial features? You guys nailed it. And the ending couldn’t have been better. :applause:

#8

Amazing. I like soft atmosphere.
Great character and body language

K

#9

brilliant visual!

#10

Wonderful! This is a good example to show that “animation is all”. You dont need the faces to tell a story.

#11

Thanks for the kind words and comments everybody!

It was quite hard to get this right, and the only part of the movie not storyboarded in detail before we entered production. In the end I tried to cut these sequences as short as possible for the reason you mention, but the shots soon felt rushed, which was worse than the current flow of them in the film as a whole.

Thanks, the stopmotion feel is probably mainly due to the style of animation which came out really well with the harsh shading. I animated setting keys on doubles or quads by hand, often starting out straight ahead keying everything. If any animation required tweakwork on timing I would often just reanimate large bits of it and generally kept out of the graph editor for most of the time as it really disrupts the flow of animating.

Yeah, it’s one of those things that keep bothering you after deciding ‘the movie really has to be finished now’, it keeps stinging a bit everytime you watch it.

Thanks! Learned a lot of what I know on these forums, glad to be finally able to post it here. :slight_smile:

#12

Great job! I really liked the simple yet artistic style. It worked really well. I really like that young animators are using 3d more experimentaly lately and are not trying to achieve maximum detail (trying to copy Pixar and the sorts), but rather going with a style that is fresh and personal.

#13

Great work, I thoroughly enjoyed it!

What did you animate / render this with?

#14

Solid animation, great direction and beautiful layout!

#15

This animation is fantastic!

The screenplay subtlety of this beautiful piece make me (and I’m sure that others else) remind some childhood issues. All emotion and feelings are there, even without faces!

Congratulations! :smiley:
Cheers!

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