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.
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.
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.
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
On the 28th of March the first Earth Hour were arranged here in Norway. We were so lucky as to be asked to contribute on a TV-commercial together with DDB, Einar Film and The Chimney Pot amongst others.
From the first production meeting we did a rough 3D mockup where we locked the camera angle and position based on what we had agreed upon.
Set construction drawing
The finished set from the day of the shoot. We had to extend the set on the right side and add an extra monitor as well as content on the screens
Poor Tommy had to stuff himself with bananas the whole day. We went through 50 bananas during the shoot and they had to go to the store no less than three times to get enough. Tommy ate between 15 and 20 bananas, but didn't complain once! I guess he's not too fond of them any more...
The finished video was a massive hit on YouTube and ranked the number 15 most seen video for a while. Odd enough it was the most seen video in Mexico after a few days.
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