The Church!

So, in the last post we showed you the landscape of the film, so this time we'll take you into one of the locations. Here's: The Church!

With the Niceness!

More development stuff:

Ruff' Boards!

Here's a random selection of the first pass of the storyboards for the film. These will later be "touched up" by Andreas and used to create both the animatic, as well as layouts for the animators to work from.

These boards are all from the first half of the film.

Yay!

So, the team of animators has been confirmed! Come October we will be joined by Emil Sellström, Israel Hernandez, Marie-Louise H. Jensen and Rebecca Sørensen. We all look forward to starting work with them and really get the film on tracks!

In other news: Monty and I have started storyboarding the film, and are pleased to find that the stylistic choices we made in the pre-boarding phase are really paying off in the actual boards. They look beautiful and promising!
We'll post some examples in a few days!

In development

Here's a first look at some of our design-ideas. We're still developing the style of the film, but we're fairly certain that we'll go for a simple, expressive look, that will allow a wide range of approaches for diffrent scenes in the film. The backgrounds will have colour, but we'd like to keep the characters black and white. All these drawings are of cource done by the talented Andreas Monty Freddie. We'll post more soon, so keep your eyes peeled!

First Step...

Hi! Thanks for stopping by! This blog will feature updates and news from the production of "BIG MAN", an animated graduation film from The Danish Film School.
The film is about a freak of a man. Big as a tree, strong as an ox, but with the mind of a child. He has grown up, and lived his entire life on the outskirts of a small mexican village, alone with his tiny mom. When she dies, BIG MAN has to go to town for the first time in his life, in order to give his mom a propper burial. But his encounter with the villagers doesn't play out well, and BIG MAN has to face down both a selfserverving priest, a weakwilled sheriff and a posse of triggerhappy deputies before he can hope to put his mother in the ground.

The film is directed by Cav Bøgelund, co-directed and designed by Andreas Monty Freddie, produced by Cladia Siesbye. With a screenplay by Tobias Lindholm, sound-design by Frank Mølgaard and animation by the talented students from The Animation Workshop in Viborg.