What Richard Branson can teach you about producing
Lately I’ve been thinking about Richard Branson’s way of doing business, and how it relates to the world of animation or film producing. In his 44 y...
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Report in the works about coproducing with Germany
I’m working on a free report about German funding sources, coproduction structures and so forth. If you have any questions you’d like to have answer...
How to finance your (short) film part II
This is the second of two posts about how to finance your shortfilm. Although the following information is specific to Finland you will find similar possibiliti...
How to finance your (short) film part I
I often get asked by film makers if I could tell them how to raise money for their shortfilm. In order to save myself from typing the same answers time and agai...
Interview: Punks in social media
Today’s post is an interview with three guys from OASIS Multimedia. I met them at the Interfilm shortfilm festival in Berlin and we had a chat about their...
What makes an animated film expensive?
Animation productions are quite different from live-action films in the factors that influence a project’s budget. There are many elements that determine ...
On stereoscopic 3D
This week I attended the Cartoon Masters Feature seminar in Munich. A big theme in several presentations was stereoscopic 3D or S3D, with such speakers as veter...
Animation is a “born global” business
The headline is borrowed from Petteri Pasanen, producer of the Helsinki-based Anima Vitae studios, who put it forward in his presentation at the Animation Finan...
Why Finnish animation kicks so much butt
I state as my opinion, that the different kinds of animation productions coming out of Finland kick lots of butt. Not only do they compete for and win internati...
Co-operation instead of competition
The Finnish animation producers have been co-operating under the banner of Finnanimation since 2005. It started out as a group of producers who attended the MIF...