tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51450931037314821182024-03-14T01:25:21.165-07:00Péter Vácz - animation directorPÉTER VÁCZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14781901942636529032noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145093103731482118.post-37278400726472926352014-12-15T01:55:00.000-08:002014-12-17T11:16:09.990-08:00Making of Rabbit and Deer (Nyuszi és Őz)<i>"A stunningly directed and beautifully crafted play on the universal conflict of emotional incompatibility."</i> –<a href="http://hodgsonfilms.tumblr.com/" target="_blank"> Jonathan Hodgson</a> (BAFTA winner animation director) <br />
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<b>Rabbit and Deer</b> is my graduation film from <a href="http://mome.hu/" target="_blank">MOME Anim</a>
in Budapest, Hungary and it took me a year and a half to make it with the great help of my friend Attila Bertóti. Since
I finished the film in 2013 it has been screened in 63 countries at
more than 300 festivals and won over 120 awards. People's reactions to
the film have been just wonderful and I'm grateful for all the kind
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<span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"> <span style="font-size: x-large;">In this making of post I will go through the whole creative and
technical process including the question of '<i>how should I promote my
film after I finished making it</i>'. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>1) STORY</b></span></div>
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<b>1.1. Finding the right story</b><br />
When I started my graduation project I had no idea what kind of animated film I was going to make but I tried really hard to figure it out as soon as possible because I decided to stick to the one-year deadline (at MOME you have the chance to extend your graduation by a year and in animation people tend to do that). <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">collection of ideas for the story</td></tr>
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I collected different ideas that fascinated me in general and one of those was mixing different animation techniques. I was really curious about how puppet animation could interact with 2D drawn animation whilst telling a story with them. Even though it's an exciting idea by itself I was still missing the essence - what kind of story was I going to tell and who would be its heroes…?<br />
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After a month of searching finally I found my protagonists. They were right in front of me the whole time...<br />
Have you ever had the feeling that your friend looks exactly like an animal? Well, once my friend said I looked like a deer, which started a funny role play between me and my ex-girlfriend who looked like a rabbit. I started making illustrations with these two animals based on moments we shared together and soon Rabbit and Deer became independent characters, separate from their creators.<br />
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I found my two heroes but the story was still a big question mark. I started thinking about why I could relate to these characters and I realized that it was 'their' happy moments and silly fights, inspired by our everyday life, that made them so special. I quickly began to collect all these little details and turned them into sketches.<br />
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<b>1.2. Developing the story – 2D and 3D</b><br />
After Rabbit and Deer came on board as the main characters I soon decided that I would use/mix two animation techniques to tell their story. I chose puppet (stop motion) and hand-drawn (2D) because of their contrast and because I love working manually.<br />
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The idea that one of them gets obsessed exploring another world came from the use of different techniques and became the core of the whole story. At this point I started to collect as many visual ideas as I could for the possible interactions between the 2D and 3D worlds. This exploration was one of the most exciting and fun parts…<br />
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<b><br />1.3. It's good to read inspiring books</b><br />
I'm more of a visual person but whilst making Rabbit and Deer I was also writing as I was trying to discover more about the two characters' personalities and feelings (often just lying awake at night).<br />
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During this process I started to read <a href="http://mckeestory.com/" target="_blank">Robert McKee</a>'s <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Story-Substance-Structure-Principles-Screenwriting/dp/0060391685/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1418669472&sr=8-1&keywords=mckee+story" target="_blank">STORY</a> which is a great book explaining the principals of storytelling and scriptwriting whilst referring to the greatest films of all time as examples. It gave me many ideas to find the best way to tell and form the story of Rabbit and Deer.<br />
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In the meantime I also had to write a longer thesis for which I choose Henry Selick's body of work in relation with the history of puppet animation. I read many great books on stop motion, and the making of his films (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107688/?ref_=nv_sr_1" target="_blank">The Nightmare Before Christmas</a>, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116683/" target="_blank">James and the Giant Peach</a>, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0327597/" target="_blank">Coraline</a>…) which inspired me a lot from both story and technical point of view.<br />
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<b>1.4. Who is the target audience? </b><br />
So… I was asked by my consultants at film school the question: who will be the target audience of this film? Children or adults? I never liked this question… Everyone who has feelings and emphathy is my 'target'. I'd like to believe that I can make films that reach people's heart no matter what age they are.<br />
Nevertheless I still had to decide whether the characters were friends or lovers. In the beginning I planned on it being a relationship but I couldn't find a healthy balance so I decided to simplify things and turn it into a friendship which worked better. In the end I believe it became a delicate mixture of the two which leaves more space for people's personal interpretation.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>2) PRE-PRODUCTION</b></span></div>
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<b>2.1. Designing the two worlds and its characters </b><br />
Rabbit and Deer's 2D world is set on a paper plane that stands on the edge of the 3D world. It's like a slice or the projection of the three dimensional universe. For the sake of the story and the world's authenticity I really had to simplify the look of the 2D world which meant that there couldn't be any perspective distortion or overlapping objects.<br />
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<b>2.3. A great help and companion on the long journey</b><br />
When the story's main plot was set I knew it was going to be too big of a project for me alone. I needed someone who could help, someone who would understand all the aspects of directing animation and someone who could be there even in the hardest moments and say 'it's not good enough'. I was very lucky to have Attila Bertóti as a classmate and who's work (<a href="https://vimeo.com/31137936" target="_blank">Ariadne's Thread</a>) I respected very much and who said yes when I asked him to join me. Attila started to work with me on developing the animatic and helped all the way till graduation. <br />
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I also had a lot of help from the lecturers of MOME Animation department; Rita Domonyi, Zsolt Richly, Judit Czakó and József Fülöp, director of MOME who produced the film and got around €6000 of funding for the film's production and ensured a studio space and equipment in the university building.<br />
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<b>2.4. Animated film inspiration for directing, style, visual look and music</b><br />
I love <i><a href="https://vimeo.com/90957237" target="_blank">The Gruffalo</a></i> by <a href="http://www.studiosoi.de/" target="_blank">Studio Soi</a>.
It has beautiful design and style, every detail is perfect and the
characters are loveable. The magical music from René Aubry makes the
whole film very special. My other big favorite is <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0027572" target="_blank">Wes Anderson</a>'s <i><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0432283" target="_blank">Fantastic Mr. Fox</a></i>.
A unique piece of puppet animation from a live-action director with an
amazing soundtrack. For the 2D part of my film I would have loved to
have achieved something as delicate as the style of <a href="http://www.doiion.com/" target="_blank">Patrick Doyon</a>'s <a href="https://vimeo.com/21137303" target="_blank"><i>Dimanche</i></a> or <a href="http://calebdwood.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">Caleb Wood</a>'s <a href="https://vimeo.com/23133303" target="_blank"><i>Stay Home</i></a>
has but I had to simplify things… still, I love those films. As for
Deer's puppet and the 3D quality, I got some good ideas from Johny
Kelly's <a href="https://vimeo.com/28355660" target="_blank"><i>Chipotle</i></a> advert.<br />
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I got stuck I tried to re-inspire myself by watching these films and
analyzing the use of music, design, animation, characters, colors and
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<b>2.5. Working with a team</b><br />
I always tried to develop the whole project in unity because each part defines, forms and inspires all the others. It's a constant conversation between the different elements of the film (materials, characters, acting, sound, music…etc).<br />
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I realized that I couldn't very well ask for help until I knew exactly what I needed help with. If I didn't figure out and plan every little detail before handing out a task, my project would loose its authenticity and it would have been a painful waste of time. That was the hardest part because after a while I needed help with all the different aspects of the film (animation, set and prop design, coloring, sound design, etc.) to be able to finish on time for graduation.<br />
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By the beginning of March I had a rough, 12-min long animatic. I had four months until graduation which was a bit scary but also challenging...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">animating Rabbit (replacing the cut-out paper poses frame by frame)</td></tr>
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<b>Making the Deer puppet</b><br />
The first challenge was to transform Deer's simple rectangular body into a three dimensional puppet that still looked like the 2D version of him. After I drew some sketches I made two simple prototypes to figure out how it might look and function before making the more sophisticated and time-consuming final version.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">First visual test putting 2D and 3D next to each other</td></tr>
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I sculpted the body from styrofoam and covered it with car repair putty to harden it, but probably now I'd use Sculpy which is great for sculpting and also bakeable. For the arms, legs and neck I used 1-2 mm aluminium wire covered with heat-shrink tube. Inside the body there is an inner structure with brass tubing (K&S) and screws so that I could replace the limbs if the wire broke whilst animating a scene. The two halves of the body were joined by a strong magnet which made it easy to open it and change things.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">a rough animation test with the very first prototypes</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">transformation from 2D to 3D</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2nd prototype</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">technical drawing for the final puppet</td></tr>
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For the head I decided to use replacement mouth shapes to animate
his facial expressions – the same techniqe used in Nightmare Before
Christmas, Coraline and Laika's newest feature films. Every mouth shape
was modeled in 3D software and printed out as real objects by a high-res
3D printer. To attach and replace the mouth shapes I inserted a magnet
in the head and glued little metal pieces to each mouth. For the
eyebrows and eyelids I used plasticine.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">3D printing the head and the mouth shapes</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">cleaning the additional support layer</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">painting the final elements</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The finished puppet Deer</td></tr>
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<b>Building sets and animating</b><br />
<b> </b>The film's first 2D part was animated entirely in computer using a Wacom tablet with Adobe Flash and colored in TV Paint software.<br />
The puppet sets were more complex and complicated but a lot of fun to work with. For the puppet animation I used <a href="http://dragonframe.com/" target="_blank">Dragonframe </a>software and a Canon 60D camera.<br />
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After Deer cuts Rabbit from their 2D paper plane world she also became a 'puppet' but instead of one she had a print for each posture of her movement which I was replacing frame by frame as the animating went along.<br />
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<b>MUSIC & SOUND</b><br />
Music is as important for me as the image,
although it works differently. It supports the emotional part of the
film because it has an immediate subconscious impact on us whilst
processing the visual part is more of a mental task. I love the music of
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcnTBdoxvD4&index=1&list=PLADD34DE9F5CF2A33" target="_blank">René Aubry</a> so much that I decided to use one of his songs <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgTzHQbVEy4" target="_blank">Dare-Dard</a> for the opening sequence for which fortunately I could get the rights cleared.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Máté Hámori composing the music</td></tr>
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From the animatic till the film's first rough-cut version I mainly used already existing songs and film tracks to have a basic set of audio mood. After the whole film was animated and edited we could focus on composing the film's original soundtrack and create an accurate sound design both made by the talented Hungarian musician <a href="http://www.port.hu/hamori_mate/pls/w/person.person?i_pers_id=266929" target="_blank">Máté Hámori</a>. It was great to work with Máté because he believed in the film and he was opened for discussions which is very important for me. He added so much to the film with his precise and creative work. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">MK / Mahdi Khene writer of the song Listen</td></tr>
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As for the ending song I used The Marshall Tucker Band's <i>Can't You See</i> for almost a year but I couldn't clear the rights for it (due to the record label's passive communication) which led me to the fortunate act of asking <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Mahdi-Khene/136739313050154" target="_blank">Mahdi Khene</a> (a musician friend of mine) if he'd be up for writing one instead. He basically sent me '<a href="http://itunes.apple.com/album/id943458685" target="_blank"><i>Listen</i></a>' the next day, a beautiful song inspired by and written for the film itself. I'm very happy with it. <br />
(If you like the song make sure you check out Mahdi's freshly released album <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/album/id943458685" target="_blank"><i>Something Like That</i></a>.)<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>5) PROMOTION</b></span></div>
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<b>5.1. Making the website and facebook page</b><br />
I wanted to be as professional as possible not only with making the film, but with promoting and distributing it as well. When we create something, we tend to believe that finishing the creation is the end of the process but if you want to make a living from what you do you must communicate about it.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">winning a Crystal in ANNECY</td></tr>
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From releasing my previous film <a href="https://vimeo.com/30376094" target="_blank"><i>Streamschool</i></a> I had already experienced sending my film to festivals as well as releasing work on internet. For Rabbit and Deer I made a website and Facebook page before sending it to festivals. It's good to have a nice overview of your film with all the basic information in one place (trailer, stills, making of images, festival screening dates… etc.)<br />
I use the film's Facebook fan page to share news, updates, artworks and to interact with my audience which is very important for me.<br />
Looking back now it's quite unbelievable to see the hundreds of pictures, illustrations and videos I made in the last two years for the different events...<br />
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<b>5.2. Festivals - take it seriously</b><br />
Even though I knew people liked the film from previous screenings I had no clue how would it do on festivals. Ideally we wanted to get the film into one of the major festivals like Berlinale or Cannes but they didn't select it for their competition. It didn't get me down because I knew there are so many others and in the meantime I won my very first award the Hungarian Film Critics' for Best Animation which was fantastic and reassuring.<br />
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So I started to send it to festivals. I wanted to do it as professional as I could. I made personal business cards and postcars with the film stills printed on them. I also designed and created the DVDs and their packaging one by one. In the beginning it took me a long time to find the right festivals, fill out submission forms and send the packages with the DVDs but soon I realized there are so many online platforms (shortfilmdepot, shortfilmcentral, reelport, WAB, ) from where you can send your film much easier spending less money on it. It still took me a year as a part time activity to send it to more than 500 festivals...<br />
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I even made a little short film on my way to the Annecy film festival (inspired by one of my exemplar <a href="http://www.zaramella.com.ar/site/" target="_blank">Juan Pablo Zaramella</a> who did a <a href="https://vimeo.com/24200122" target="_blank">short pixilation</a> the previous year).<br />
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<b>5.3. Awards and recognition</b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">with one of my favorite award from Se-Ma-For Festival<b><br /></b></td></tr>
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I'm very happy and grateful for having such an amazing reaction to my film in the end. But winning over 100 awards isn't always easy to process. I had to learn to take them and stay down to earth, grateful, without feeling guilty or having any other weird feeling. With time I slowly understood that they are not shiny glorious badges but each of them is a 'word' of appreciation, love and a wish to share it with other people.<br />
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Throughout my many travels to different countries and festivals I had some wonderful moments which I will never forget. Once I was at a big Spanish festival where I presented my film personally. After the screening I was trying to go through the crowd when a woman suddenly appeared in front of me gently grabbing my arm, kissing me on my cheek and leaving without a word. I just stood there and felt very happy and honored.<br />
Other times older people came to me with warm smiles shaking my hand strongly or children with wondering eyes looking at the puppets and asking for autograph for which I always add a nice drawing and a few kind words.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Illustration for the children in Seattle.</span></td></tr>
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It's just magical to see people from different countries and from all
ages being inspired and happy all because of a 16 minute shortfilm that I
made with love.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Making of written by Péter Vácz</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">English edited by<a href="http://www.josephwallace.co.uk/" target="_blank"> Joseph Wallace</a></span></div>
PÉTER VÁCZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14781901942636529032noreply@blogger.com102tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145093103731482118.post-22854949389658448242014-12-02T02:51:00.001-08:002014-12-03T04:49:44.900-08:00MAKING OF – Parabola (Satellite Dish)A quirky 1-min animation based on a silly Hungarian children's poem by the recognized Lackfi János, preformed by Busa Pista a superb Hungarian beat-boxer.<br />
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I've got this job from <a href="http://www.google.de/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCMQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fanim.mome.hu%2Fen%2F&ei=t5p9VJfrAonjO9ThgNgF&usg=AFQjCNF_eQqLiw8vqbjXgMPcTfAxHPslfg&sig2=6Q9zGyhrNblW-2F_8s5Kzw&bvm=bv.80642063,d.ZWU" target="_blank">MOME Anim</a>, the university I graduated from. It's been years now that the Uni runs these series called 'animated poems' as part of the workshop tasks. The aim is to make Hungarian contemporary literature available for children. My earlier film <a href="https://vimeo.com/30376094" target="_blank">Patakiskola (Streamschool)</a> from 2010 was also part of this pursuit.<br />
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<b>1) Choosing the right poem</b></div>
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As a start I got to choose from a bunch of contemporary poems for children. I found <i>Parabola (Satellite Dish)</i> the most fun and entertaining and it seemed to be a quick production in terms of animation (which I was happy for after making an epic graduation film <a href="https://vimeo.com/51153134" target="_blank">Rabbit and Deer</a> for a year and a half).<br />
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<a href="http://www.lackfi-janos.hu/" target="_blank">János Lackfi</a> is one of the main character of Hungarian contemporary literature and I'm glad that I can share his fantastic work both nationally and internationally.<br />
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<b>2) Creating a strong soundtrack</b></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pista Busa - rapper, beatboxer / János Lackfi - Hungarian poet, writer</td></tr>
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The first important question was the audio track on which I always place great emphasis. I wanted to break the convention of 'boring' voice over
narration and Lackfi's <i>Parabola</i> was a perfect piece for that with it's snappy, playful style. That's how I came to ask <a href="https://soundcloud.com/authentic-beats/busa-pista-nem-mindegy-authenticbeats-remix" target="_blank">Pista Busa</a> – one of Hungary's best rapper, beatboxer – to perform the poem.<br />
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After Busa made the awesome one-min soundtrack I started to work on the animation in Adobe Flash using a drawing tablet. My main thing in animation is to always find a way to include something handmade, something real even if it's mainly done on computer. This way there's always going to be some unique touch that's only yours. <br />
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<b>3) The animation process</b></div>
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When the animation was done in Flash I saved each frame as a JPEG
sequence (only the black lines without the colored shapes) and printed
them on fifty A3 sized water-color papers – 10 frames on each sheet. When
the prints were done I started to paint each frame with water-color...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Animating in Adobe Flash</td></tr>
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The last part was to capture each frame in order so that I can line up the whole movie again in the computer and export it. For this I used a Canon 60D camera, two <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Faithfull-Power-SLTL38WM-Mirrored-Fluorescent/dp/B005THOPNM" target="_blank">Faithfull Task Light</a> and the <a href="http://www.dragonframe.com/" target="_blank">Dragonframe</a> stopmotion software.<br />
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I often think about how an animation filmmaker can show all the effort and work that goes into making a film by creating each frame one by one. I think the 'result' of this project is a good example to map down the actual film to a physical artifact. 50 sheets of paper with 500 hand-painted frames = 1 minute animated film.<br />
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I always try to make all my works available and understandable to everyone and that's the reason that there's an English version too. The brilliant translation was made by my friend <a href="https://www.facebook.com/josephwallaceuk" target="_blank">Joseph Wallace </a>who is an award-winning film and theater director. <br />
Check out his great films on his <a href="https://vimeo.com/josephwallace" target="_blank">Vimeo page</a>.<br />
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If you have any question feel free to drop a message through my <a href="https://www.facebook.com/peter.vacz.director" target="_blank">Director's Facbook page</a> (you can also like it ;)<br />
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<b>Thank you for reading!</b></div>
PÉTER VÁCZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14781901942636529032noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145093103731482118.post-2134289674735826122012-10-31T07:52:00.000-07:002012-10-31T07:52:26.708-07:00Ear operationI had an ear operation two weeks ago, because my listening through my left ear became half as good as normal. It was caused by calcification of the ear bones - it is called otosclerosis. They took the wrong part out and put a replacement instead of it while I was locally anesthetized. I didn't feel anything but heard the whole thing and my heavy heartbeats were shaking the table...<br />
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<br />PÉTER VÁCZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14781901942636529032noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145093103731482118.post-84351024765699079542012-04-02T10:41:00.003-07:002012-04-02T10:48:52.169-07:00MA Szakdolgozatom a bábanimációról<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;">Mivel különösen szeretem a bábanimációt, viszont magyar vonatkozásban alig található róla naprakész szakirodalom, úgy döntöttem, hogy a műfaj egyéni és különleges nyelvezetét fogom megvizsgálni szakdolgozatomban, a híres rendező, Henry Selick (<i>Karácsonyi lidércnyomás, James és az óriásbarack, Coraline és a titkos ajtó</i>) munkásságán keresztül.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Dolgozatomban röviden összefoglalom a bábanimáció közel egyévszázados történetét és rávilágítok, hogy mitől olyan különleges ez a médium a többi animációs technika mellett. Mindezt Selick varázslatos filmjeiből kiragadott példákkal illusztrálva.</div><br />
Élvezetes és hasznos olvasmány mindazoknak, akik vonzódnak a bábanimációs/stop-motion műfajhoz és szeretik Henry Selick filmjeit.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/open?id=0BxaeCQ26SmWAamEzSU1CSUpRaS1tRmszOHZlejl1QQ" target="_blank">:: A szakdolgozatomat (pdf) innen lehet letölteni ::</a></span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Jó olvasást!</div>PÉTER VÁCZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14781901942636529032noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145093103731482118.post-30058755893916233602011-11-07T14:15:00.000-08:002014-04-08T11:47:22.186-07:00Making of Streamschool<div style="text-align: justify;">
A little girl has an adventure with water as she travels from a small brook to the sea. A tale of growing up based on a Hungarian poem.</div>
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Streamschool was my graduation film in BA Animation at Moholy- Nagy University of Arts and Design. I chose the poem from a Hungarian contemporary poet called Zsolt Miklya to make a short film for children.</div>
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The production was only two months long because at the same time I was attending an animation course called ASF (<a href="http://www.animationsansfrontieres.eu/index.php?menu=prog">Animation Sans Frontieres</a>) and <span style="color: black; font-size: small;">the rest of that term was really short.</span><br />
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<b>IDEA & VISUAL STYLE</b></div>
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When I had the final idea in mind I asked my friend Kati Egely to do the backgrounds for my film (she makes beautiful pictures and puppets using different textiles). We planned out the timing and the storyboard roughly together and then she sewed the backgrounds. Then I designed the main character "Dora" who travels through and explores this beautiful imaginary world.</div>
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<b>THE 2 MONTH PRODUCTION with DRAGONFRAME</b><br />
After the tests the production has started. I used the Dragon stop motion software to shoot the film which is an amazingly helpful software and the best to make stop motion. To be able to animate the characters and the backgrounds on more layers I built a small layered glass table. </div>
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My aim was to make all the effects in stop motion instead of using computer generated ones. The simplest and the most spectacular idea which came into my mind one day while swimming was that I put an old jar under the camera to create the effects of the under water scene. As I rolled the jar frame by frame it caused a distortion which gave this amazing wavering effect. Check it out here:</div>
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Another important choice was that at the beginning Dora (the little girl) wasn't planned to be in the film's beginning and I didn't want to re shoot the previous scenes so I animated Dora over the already done stop motion backgrounds in flash. When all the scenes were finished I could start working on the sound design and the composition.<br />
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My biggest inspirations in the animation style and mood were two films; the well known <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_HXUhShhmY">Her morning elegance</a> and another great cut-out music video called <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmB_qX_MFJY">Hello Antenna</a>. </div>
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Because I wanted to be fast but still have a professional result at the end I made test animations in flash for the more complicated parts to use them as a guide animating under the stop motion camera. Here are two of them: "fish jumping" and "big waves coming".</div>
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<b>POST PRODUCTION - SOUND, MUSIC & VOICE</b><br />
Making sounds is an entertaining and creative work that I enjoy all the time; making them, finding them and even copying parts from other movies to put all them together to get a totally new and unique result...<br />
I was quite fortunate finding this beautiful piece of music which became the theme of the film. The composer and also graphic designer is a talented guy called Ábris Gryllus known as <a href="http://www.myspace.com/yveinmonq">YVEIN MONQ</a>. <br />
The Hungarian narration of the film was told by Piroska Molnár one of the most famous actress in Hungary. I wanted her to narrate it because she has such a strong but still warm character like a grandmother and a huge experience in her past.<br />
My friend <a href="http://www.joseph-wallace.co.uk/">JOSEPH WALLACE</a> (a talented British filmmaker) made the English translation and THOMAS VILLEMONTEIX the French which was narrated by the actress MURIEL RACINE. <br />
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<b>LATER ON...</b><br />
I could finish the film blissfully at the end of May just before my graduation was. It was greeted quite well at the animation department in MOME. It has visited 10 international festivals, small and big ones.<br />
I plan to continue this project as a series of poem animations (after I graduated in MA) using and developing this wonderful spectacle and technique to let both children and adults wonder and explore in new exciting and imaginary worlds. </div>
PÉTER VÁCZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14781901942636529032noreply@blogger.com246tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145093103731482118.post-77964168922973521972011-10-24T10:36:00.000-07:002011-11-07T14:18:15.831-08:00Peter playing in the bed (Hotel Comfort, Ludwigsburg)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU1rAn-UOhAtwH-j36Y6LKL-FJEcxjwXdhHkxKgkQoIHF5puGtpso70nIaU0YDc5-2ljPYXUXKkKNPP4O2NA9MjpH3yh64rFcHNw05tJ8iyjnpaeIHuXzctzvbWZqZtu49NwUb5pHYB3f0/s1600/bed_project3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU1rAn-UOhAtwH-j36Y6LKL-FJEcxjwXdhHkxKgkQoIHF5puGtpso70nIaU0YDc5-2ljPYXUXKkKNPP4O2NA9MjpH3yh64rFcHNw05tJ8iyjnpaeIHuXzctzvbWZqZtu49NwUb5pHYB3f0/s200/bed_project3.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> On the first day morning of my staying in Ludwigsburg I nicely made my bed in the hotel. In the afternoon I noticed that the Room service wasn't satisfied with it and they changed the bedding in THEIR way.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> So I was wondering how would they react if I'd do some silly compositions using the pillow and blanket day after day – well as you can see quite the same... </div><div style="text-align: justify;">It was a nice way of visual communication between me and the room service. I hope they enjoyed it too.</div><br />
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So after 8 years of drawing, illustrating and making animated films I drew my first comic for the birthday of a friend of mine Endre, and right after that I drew the second one to another friend Pityu... (It's in Hungarian so sorry if you don't understand it - but I hope the images will be enough)<br />
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Compare to the previous weeks (10 sec in 2 weeks) it was more challenging and not just because it was longer animation but we also had to make a more detailed storyboard, concentrate on modeling the sets and props, setting up the lights and render and to record and do the sound design - making a whole Film.<br />
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<b>Idea and Story</b><br />
We already started to work on characters and stories a month before on a weekend with the actor/teacher Philip Watt so some of us kept and developed the ideas we got there. My final idea came only one day before we started the final project (just in time…)<br />
The inspiration was one of my older illustration and the scene I did for the Dialogue (Bandit Hat). Then I started to work on the storyboard which improved every time when I talked about it with Erik and my classmates. <br />
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As the story changed or widened I recorded more and more reference videos that helped me a lot in the animation as well. Here you can watch two of them: <br />
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<b>Visual research</b><br />
I used the Norman rig that I re-modeled. The result somehow looked like me : ).<br />
For the final look of the attic I collected few attic photos then modeled the attic gave a little wooden texture and put a few objects to set the mood. <br />
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</tbody></table>PÉTER VÁCZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14781901942636529032noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145093103731482118.post-62422411872973202692011-06-15T00:30:00.000-07:002011-06-25T09:10:16.786-07:002nd two-week assignment - DialogueThe second 2-week's assignment was the Dialogue animation also with Michelle Meeker.<br />
We had to choose a 10 sec audio. I found an energetic one in Fantastic Mr. Fox where Ash freaks out because his father didn't involve him in his chicken stealing plan.<br />
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<a href="http://vimeo.com/24894018">Bandit hat</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/peterpancake">Peter Vacz</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.<br />
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These two sketches were my first ideas for two different audios. Finally I've chosen the more energetic one. Then I recorded the reference video very quickly as the first acting impression came and then worked out the poses on the paper to understand and memorize them as much I can.<br />
The process went quite the same as the Mime animation, except that we had the lip sync as well to animate. <br />
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</tbody></table>PÉTER VÁCZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14781901942636529032noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145093103731482118.post-72069964231617273172011-05-29T05:16:00.000-07:002011-06-25T09:10:16.786-07:001st two-week assignment - Mime<iframe frameborder="0" height="464" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/24362179?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0&color=ffffff" width="580"></iframe><br />
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My 10 sec mime animation idea was about this really dunk guy in a house Party who grabs the wrong bottle filled with toxic and drinks from it...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Idea</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Thumbnail "storyboard"</td></tr>
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After I got the clear idea I went to shoot the reference video which helped me to define the movements. Of course it is not about trying to copy frame by frame but get the feeling of it.<br />
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We had Michelle Mikker for 4 weeks to teach us animation. She worked at Dreamworks on Shrek, in Lord of the rings on Gollum and she is also a mentor at the Animation Mentor online workshop.<br />
She gave us very interesting lectures every second day about rules of animation, ways of working with the character compare to the story. I'll attach some of my note pages because they are really clear principals for every animator.<br />
On the other days we had dailies where we got feedback. Michelle had this funny idea that the class had to decide and vote after every dailies for the best animation. The winner got this Twinkie (american cookie) keeper toy, and had to write something on a paper and put it in the toy and then give it to the next winner. From the 10 occasion my lovely classmates voted for me 5 times. Thank you : )<br />
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</tbody></table><strong>The Process of the 4 week</strong><br />
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We got our assignment on the first day. We had to come up with a 10 sec long mime idea where something happens with the character. We also had to involve an object that the character could interact with.<br />
Michelle said that she had two best friends while animating in Maya: "the Reference video and the Graph Editor". So we drew the thumbnail storyboard and then shoot the Reference video - it proved very useful and my acting skills worked quite well. I also helped some of my other classmates to act out their scenes. For 3D animation you really need those little details and have to understand the poses.PÉTER VÁCZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14781901942636529032noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145093103731482118.post-42929876692869541222011-05-15T06:13:00.000-07:002011-06-25T09:09:01.349-07:00CroquisHere in The Animation Workshop people have the great chance to go to croqui sessions twice a week for 2 hours of drawing.<br />
Why is it so cool?<br />
We have papers, many different kind of drawing and painting tools, and good models for free.<br />
I like when the model doesn't try to do "amazing poses" but imagine him/herself in real situations and acts them out… Then I'll have a very strong impression of the pose, filled up with a character. (Unfortunately that isn't always like this.)<br />
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I love the strong simplicity of Picasso's and Henri Matisse's drawings. Their works influence me a lot when I'm drawing.<br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">I made this short film in my free time for my girlfriend's birthday. First animated one of her graphic then recorded a few live action footage around the school in Viborg then composited them together. This was my first time using AEffects and I really enjoyed it. Also many of my classmates helped me. Thank you guys! She was really happy on her birthday : )</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div>PÉTER VÁCZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14781901942636529032noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145093103731482118.post-86464061016390745462011-05-01T13:57:00.000-07:002011-06-25T09:07:15.971-07:00IMPRO<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="color: #444444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There is this guy Bjarne in the school who organizes IMPRO workshops with other guys every second Wednesday. I really like acting. When I saw this poster "impro makes people happy" I liked it a lot so I went to the next workshop and took part of it. There was also audience, the other students of the school. It was great and a lot of fun doing all these brain refreshing games, creating characters and running into a weird story where funny unexpected situations happened that you'd never get into by yourself. </span></div><div style="color: #444444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The audience enjoyed it a lot… so did I.</span></div><div style="color: #444444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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After the first 3 weeks of "introduction to Maya" we got a great teacher called Erik C. Schmidt. He was born in Denmark. Then he moved to America and worked there in many films (Spirit, Eldorado, Bolt, etc.) as a professional animator and supervising animator both in 2D and 3D in such studios like Disney and Dreamworks.<br />
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</tbody></table>He has a very good sense to teach and to give motivating critics. The structure of the 4-week animation was very well built so at the end we`ve learnt how to use the different tools in Maya to be able to build up and keep our animation in hand.<br />
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We started the animation basics with simple objects like the Pixo lamp and the floursack. At the beginning we only had one day for every animation. It was quite fun and sattisfying to animate the lamp because you can get a result very fast. The assignment was to animate: sniffing, laughing, and looking around. We had to animate the floursack (I did a ballet spinning) dancing and jumping off somewhere.<br />
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Here are some of the daily animations:<br />
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The following 3 weeks we get into character animation first just making poses to express different emotions. Mostly used Hogan rig, because it is quite simple. Then we did little pieces like weight shifting, a take, a bow, lifting weight and the last week the walk and run cycle. During these tasks we learned how to use the graph editor and a specific workflow. These are Erik's good advices to be aware when you are animating in 3d. They were very useful.<br />
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We started the first 3 weeks with Steve Ford. He taught us the basics of Maya. Mostly modeling and a little bit of rigging and skinning. We've chosen one of our own character to start modeling. My character is a complex animal Mikka Makka from a Hungarian tale that I adapted.<br />
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