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In this webinar producer Martin Jůza from the Czech animation studio Krutart will tell you the story of the animated series Kosmix and what steps they had to take to produce 2 seasons of their home-grown IP. How they had to change their mindset, what they lost the most money on and what mistakes they made so that you don’t have to repeat them.
Luiz Stockler, a multi award winning Animation Director talks about in-between works and on how to not become stuck.
Would it have occurred to you that an invitation to a beer could be related to philosophy? Get to know the method of the veil of ignorance of the American philosopher John Rawls and see how the problem of fair distribution of resources can be matured. The concise animated series connects the ordinary human world with philosophical ideas and philosophy.
A short film about Kamil and his unwitting steps toward fulfilling his destiny. Or, Kamil’s last morning.
Where there’s a will, there’s a way.
I made this short video for Czech Television, reflecting weird stuff people are doing at home in these even weirder times of Coronavirus.
When a young boy hides into a wall clock during playtime, his life shrinks into a single game of hide and seek. He becomes an old man with lots of memories of his childhood that manifest themselves in surreal scenes and tell a story about something which concerns every single one of us. Hide N Seek is Bára Halířová’s graduation film from the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague.
A horrifying sight awaits a curious villager who stops by a watering hole one day. The water has an unusual red color. The graduate of the Ostrava University of Applied Sciences was inspired by the culture of old Japan, which is also reflected in the very title of the film. The herumetto protective helmet will play a vital role in this action story.
Sea, sun, beaches and family holidays. Just pick your dream destination from the catalogue, pack your bags and hit the road. But what if the hotel isn’t as stellar as promised, your room has a bit of a naughty view, the dinner is surprisingly exotic and your luggage travels independently. Family above all!
Neo is a wild visual ride from two young animators and percussive poets Hello Marcel. The authors of the clip were inspired by their own surroundings and used a combination of visual techniques and psychedelic colors to emphasize the main leitmotif. Their work blurs the lines between impertinence and cool stuff.
The thoughts of the first president of the Czech Republic come to life in this student film made by a filmmaker from the Russian city of Magnitogorsk who, after finishing animation studies in Yekaterinburg, moved to Zlín to get his master’s degree at the Tomas Bata University. In this film, Havel’s inspirational thoughts are underlined by a clear and straightforward artistic style.
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A black comedy about death with a happy ending. A splendid chain of unlikely encounters. Hunters, a tractor driver, a disco boy, and a corpse.
The Green Animation Guide was released at this year’s MIFA and is the first international reference guide for sustainable practices in animation. It provides peer-driven actionable recommendations tailored to the specific needs of studios, producers and artists, enabling them to implement meaningful changes adapted to their realities. The guide is a collaborative effort led by Ecoprod, Green Film and Cine Regio with the support of several regional film funds.
This music video is a computer-generated animation made in an open-source program Golly. The program is used as a simulation of cell growth. The background is made with animated objects in the scanner. The story follows the lyrics of the song. First, the growth seems unlimited, then a peak comes, we break and vanish and again and again, the game of life. Behind this circle, an everlasting nostalgia is present.
A story of a lonely illustrated graffiti-tiger whose home are walls and facades of Prague houses. The city full of sprayed dirty streets and corners is a wild jungle where the tiger looks for a way to find his lost love.
A tragicomic story of Vera, who suffers from obsessive compulsive disorder. She is bullied daily by her own brain, which still reminds her of potential catastrophic scenarios that could happen. However, one particularly hectic morning, something unexpected happens – an unknown criminal appears in the housing estate. Vera has to face bizarre circumstances and not lose her job. Will she succeed? Graduation film.
Czech-Slovak video clip in which a woman sings about a man liking her the way she is. But the man, represented here only by a giant hand, tries to change the woman, on the contrary, as in some mobile application. The creators reflect the insidious desire to improve the partner, supported by the possibilities of modern technologies.
At one moment you smell something familiar and realize that this is the smell of childhood. Memories surfaced through the smell of borscht, which once on a sunny day my grandmother cooked. They are never accurate, they are fast as lightning, but they carry in themselves a light nostalgia and calm. Moments that you want to remember forever: a mother’s song, the clear sky above, and the certainty of tomorrow, knowing that a whole summer of fun is still ahead.
How can we adapt an animated film project for the game industry? Roman Vizvary presents the work principles of the company Butterfly Effect, which is involved in the field of developing games and applications on assigned topics. The writers of the successful TV series and TV special “MIMI AND LISA” compare the approaches used for animated works and for games.