Martin Skarbø and Fredrik Fottland is back at the studio after a couple of months away at Qvisten animation for work on the upcoming animated feature “Pelle Politibil” www.pellepolitibil.no
Fredrik Fottland
Martin Skarbø
Martin Skarbø has been in charge of making all the water and particle effects for the feature, which has made him the absolute best Realflow expert in Norway. We hope to make good use of that expertise as much as possible now that hes back. Thirsty anyone? Give us a ring if you need fluids!
Fredrik Fottland has been in charge of shading and pre-render setup on the feature, a skill that he started out developing on his last feature film Elias in 2007. We are very happy to have him back under our roof again to secure the workflow in these areas.
That makes our 3D department complete again with Martin Klint on animation and rigging, Fredrik Fottland on modeling, shading and rendering, and Martin Skarbø on fluids and particles. Of course these are just our individual specialties, were usually all over the place intertwining each others skill sets.
Great to have them back,
/Stripe team
We all know that Chrismas time equals tons of work in commercials. At the moment the Stripe team is neck deep in Christmas trees, falling stars, gift wrapped flats screens and reindeers. We’ll see you all at the end of the tunnel with a traditional “gløgg” in hand the 18 of December.
Happy pre-christmas mayhem to all!
/Stripe team
We just finished up work on a fully animated Pilot for the famous environment agent Inky (Blekkulf in Norwegian).
This was collaborative job with Qvisten animation for Nordisk Film, where Qvisten did concept, modeling, rigging and animation, and Stripe did texturing, shading, lighting, rendering and composite.
The main purpose with the pilot was to introduce the general look and feel for the upcoming series and possibly feature film about our hero Inky and his friends. The Pilot and before that a teaser trailer was shown for the firs time at internationally acclaimed Cartoon Forum which took place in the Norwegian city of Stavanger in September this year.
The underwater world of Inky and his friends.
Inky and Shrimpy.
Chris crab
The complex task of making underwater world’s was by far the most demanding task of the production. We tried to make the environment as organic and alive as possible. With the use of animated ocean surfaces, caustics, godrays, bubbles and animated vegetation we made sure that the every frame had the look and feel of underwater.
The pilot was a great success, and Nordisk film who was the client was very pleased with the result.
Stripe would like to thank the team at Qvisten and all the freelancers that worked on this very intense production.
Have a look at the Inky Pilot on the front of the Stripe site.
/Martin K
The Amanda show is Norways answer to The Oscars and this year Dinamo Story chose us to create the opening sequence. The idea was pretty simple – take some of the best known Norwegian films premiering the last year and implement the two hosts of the show, Dennis Storøy and Sven Nordin, into key scenes.
We also did a short title sequence consisting of the amanda statue and some cardboard figures of former hosts.
Light setup
Lineup
The two hosts were shot entirely on green-screen for implementing in plates from the movies. We had to make sure the lighting were as close to the original lighting in each scene.
Dennis and Sven playing out a scene from Jernanger
In between takes there’s always time to goof around.
Photographer and director playing around
The finished film can be seen here, Amanda 2009 Intro, or at our homepage www.stripe.no.
We have worked on the new Norwegian children film “Knerten”, based on the novel “Lillebror og Knerten” by Anne Cath. Vestly. Knerten is a little character made of firewood and is the imaginary friend of a little boy called “Lillebror”.
Knerten
We helped Qvisten with compositing on 8 shots. The job was to composite Knertens head and place it on the dummy shot on set. It was a funny job and we are looking forward to the premiere later this fall.
Check out the teaser here.
Recently DNB-Nors new TVcampaing started running here in Norway. The 20-something films features Norwegian top athletes, sponsored by DNB-Nor, in different situations where they do bank transactions using only their mobile phones.
We did work on one of the commercials, with the snowboarder Helene, and supervised the hellicopter shots on one of the other films.
Short break before another take
Most of the work consisted of removing ugly marks on the walls and inserting content on the different lcd screens and posters.
Faking windows
The most complex shot in the film was the establishing shot where we can se the whole airport outside of the windows. 3D models combined with a matte painting did the trick.
Agency was DDB, the production was by Einar Film and director was Morten Tyldum.
We have just finished some Robinson-ads for director Thomas Lunde at Trobbel Film. We did all the post (offline & online) and in the end we decided to do a makeover of the logo-sequence. We wanted the ad to have a film trailer feeling and therefore needed to make the logo-sequence more dramatic and cinematic. It was a easy job, but it gave the ads a more correct ending. We animated the logo in 3D and made the sky from photos.
We made a 30 sec ad and 5 teasers, and they will appear on TV and at stripe.no later this fall. Here´s a peak.
"Robinson by night"
The ads have a little bit different feeling so we did a “by night” and “by day” version.
"Robinson by day"
Congratulations Suddenly Oslo for winning the prestigious award sølvtaggen!
Stripe created video and motion graphics for the new campaign website for the Norwegian clothingbrand Kari Traa earlier this year. We also made a youtube film for the promotion of the website.
Check it out and get creative at Kari Traa
Website
Glowing inspiration
Stripe created the animated lines and did compositing of the shots
On set at Stripe
On set at Stripe
More info about the award Sølvtaggen at Kreativt Forum (Norwegian)
When Baal aproached us about doing a digital crash test dummy for their next Viking shoe-campaign we lept at the task. We did 4 3D-renders which Baal then implemented in photos. The ads has been run in the magazines “Fri Flyt“, “Jakt & Fiske” and “Fjell & Vidde“.
Jakt & Fiske
Fri Flyt
Fjell & Vidde
Fjell & Vidde
Read the full press release at Kreativt Forum (in Norwegian).
Recently Tine released it’s Sunniva fruit juices with new packaging. The agency responsible, Spilberg, hired Qvisten and director Rasmus Sivertsen to produce the tv-commercial which were shot in a studio here in Oslo.
The fruit-animators hard at work making the fruit run along an edge using monofilament fish line.
The film relies as much as possible on practical elements like apples on sticks and fish-line, but Stripe was hired to do all of the compositing and 3D computer graphics as well as paint removal of said wires.
Making the apples shine, literally, using glycerine
The finished film can be seen on our main web page; www.stripe.no
Kreativt Forum article (in Norwegian).