Martin Klint from Stripe will be present at Annecy animation festival from 10th to the 12th of June.
If anyone is there and wants to hook up for a meeting, please contact martin@stripe.no
/Martin Klint
Digital Storytelling 2010 : Visual Effects – Into New Dimensions was the fifth annual seminar here in Oslo, 14.April, where many speakers from the International, Norwegian and Scandinavian film community presented their work.
Martin Skarbø from Stripe had a little talk to showcase the visual effects work he did as VFX supervisor on the full CG-animated feature “Pelle Politibil – Går i Vannet” for Qvisten Animation / Neofilm in 2009.
Robin Lorentzen is here at stripe for one month internship from the 3D course at Idefag skolen .
We hope he’ll have a blast and learn some wicked cool skills.
/Martin Klint
Stripe made the intro/vignette, wipes, supers, backdrops and LED-graphic designs for the Spellemann 2009 award show, it was broadcast live from Oslo Spektrum on Saturday 8.March. The show was a huge success and Stripe would like to thank all co-workers, Dinamo Story, Filmreaktor and all involved for a great collaboration!
Concept, editing & design: Geirr Johnsen
Design, VFX, 3D and compositing: Martin Skarbø
The intro/vignette was co-directed by Geirr Johnsen and Martin Skarbø
Stripe also did graphics for the huge on-stage LED displays.
The LED graphics are clearly visible in this youtube clip from the live broadcast.
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.