The attic

Yes, animation production still takes place in the attic. But this attic is located in the Utrecht observatory! Looking for the stars!

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3D Animation is still Paperwork

As you can see, large sheets of paper are needed to animate in 3D.

long lists of scenes and checks to be made in the final stages

pc or mac? yes .. and Leitz! old school storyboard:

Making Charles Roar

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In Competition!

Pivot is selected for the Competition programme of the Netherlands Film Festival. The film is competing for the ‘Golden Kalf’ for the Best Shortfilm of 2010! Many thanks to the programmers of the Filmfestival!

Premiere date Pivot the movie

At last we know the premier date of Pivot. It’s on 28 september 2009 (stads schouwburg) at 20:30 hour,  so write it in your agenda and be there on the Dutch film festival.

Character animation (Tim)

Here is some character animation of Tim.

We have a lot more to show, but we are racing agains the clock because the movie has to be finished at the end of August. So if we see some time to show you more, we will.

Environment renders

We are finally putting out some renders which are getting closer to the final look. You can expect more really soon.

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Charles on the run!

Here we have the big bad dude defying all rules and whatnots.
It was created during the R&D traject to test the deformations and visual style of the film.

Tim in 3D

Tim sees the day of light.. and is just as surprised as you are.
In the face of Tim

And this is the first animation test of Tim running.

Modeling

Work in progress of a truck model.

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Work in progress of part of the harbour.

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