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Interview: Punks in social media

In animation, producing on 16 December 2010 tagged crowdfunding, crowdsourcing, festivals, marketing, social media with 1 comment

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 experiences with social media marketing. They have an animated series in development called Punks’n’Banters and have been quite successful in creating a small dedicated tribe around it. [...]

What makes an animated film expensive?

In animation, producing on 1 December 2010 tagged budgeting, filmmaking, producing with 1 comment

Animation productions are quite different from live-action films in the factors that influence a project’s budget. There are many elements that determine the budget size, and in this short summary I’d like to go through the most important ones. If you think I have left an important one out, please reply in the comments! Script [...]

On stereoscopic 3D

In animation, producing on 25 November 2010 tagged financing, producing, seminar notes, stereoscopic 3D with no comments

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 veteran director Ben Stassen, who’s made more IMAX films than anyone else. Here are some of my take-aways from the lectures: On storytelling The most important discussions centered on [...]

Co-operation instead of competition

In producing on 1 November 2010 tagged finnanimation, markets, producing with no comments

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 MIFA market in Annecy. They discovered that they could share some of the costs and help each other with all the hassles involved in putting on a successful market presence. [...]

The One Tip for being a better producer

In producing on 27 October 2010 tagged filmmaking, producing with 2 comments

Producing anything from theatre to iPad games requires lots of knowledge, connections and hard hard work. However, there is one thing that, in my opinion, you cannot be without as a producer. I’ve told this to media producer students in my lectures and to people who’ve asked me about my job as an animation producer. [...]

The best thing made for television – ever

In producing on 7 September 2009 tagged filmmaking, television with 3 comments

I must say that I am still a bit gobsmacked. Last Saturday YLE Teema, along with a few other channels around Europe, broadcasted the monumental documentary 24h Berlin. The doc, if you can really call it that, was shot on the 5th of September 2008 and broadcast exactly one year later. The film makers followed [...]

Documentary film makers wave goodbye to the festival circuit

In producing on 28 August 2009 tagged filmmaking with no comments

Brad Warner and Erik Proulx say “no thanks” to festival audiences and instead take their films to where their fans are I’ve been working for the Espoo Ciné international film festival this week, and on Wednesday I got the chance to catch Brad Warner’s Q&A session after the screening of his documentary “Cleveland’s Screaming!“. Among [...]