What’s up at Stripe
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.