Hi guys!
Here is a short clip from the short animated film “my way”, directed by me (Veljko Popovic), produced by BOLD studio Zagreb- Be shure to check out the full film at a festival near you:)
“my way” short clip
February 8th, 2010 by veljkoshort animated film MY WAY
February 2nd, 2010 by veljkoHi to all!
About a year ago the good people of BOLD studio Zagreb asked me to direct a short film they wanted to make based on the book by Svjetlan Junakovic called “my way”- I fell in love with the illustrations made by mr.Junakovic and immediately said yes!(be shure to follow the link to his online portfolio- you’ll find some great stuff there)
I am sooo happy to say that the film is finished and proud to invite you to join me for the movie premiere at the Festival of Croatian film in Zagreb 20-21.02 2010 at the “Europa” cinema. I will post a short clip from the film in a few days, but for now, here are a few stills….
I will use this opportunity to thank the great crew at BOLD studio zagreb for the best job experience ever:)- If only there were more of you out there….
Story and visuals:
Svjetlan Juanković
Director:
Veljko Popović
Producer:
Maša Udovčić
Animation:
Zvonimir Haramija, Mirela Ivanković Bielen, Ana Hrovat, Juliana Kučan, Ana-Marija Viđaković
Music and sound:
Hrvoje Štefotić
Compositing:
Maša Udovčić, Zvonimir Haramija, Juliana Kučan
Street visuals
February 2nd, 2010 by veljkoHi!
Here is a test for the street visuals in the film- this is a 3dsmax render with post-processing done in Photoshop- Hope you like what u see:)
FATHER project
January 22nd, 2010 by veljkoLast year i was invited to the ITFS Stuttgart film festival pitching forum- We had the chance to present our new project and to hang out with some cool dudes- unfortunately, we did not win anything but fortunately a great project did win- It was a Bulgarian film called “Father” produced by Compote collective. I hanged out with the guys from Compote and went home thinking, what a nice project and what nice people…Imagine my surprise when a few months ago i got a mail from the guys at Compote asking us to participate, and create one of the five stories the film will be made out of! The deal got even sweeter when i found out that Phil Mulloy is the filmography consultant! In the end, it all made sense when BONOBO studio agreed to co-produce the film
Here is a postcard promo material for the film! It speaks for it self, so i will explain no more…Looking forward to my trip to Sofia in a months time to meet up with the guys and start work on the project!
exterior models
January 22nd, 2010 by veljkoHi! Here is a render of a textured and surfaced exterior shot- This is the first step, after this the model goes into mudbox to add subtile model changes and details, then we render hand drawn elements and overlay the wood textures and dirty up the image. This was done by Marjan
new models
January 21st, 2010 by veljkoHi guys!
Its been a while since i last posted on the blog, but with the new year and the hollydays, its been crazy….On top of this i have to say the money is gooone….Since we managed to secure a fraction above half of the funds required to finish the film..This is why we have been forced to focus more on the commercial jobs to keep the studio running, which in the end makes the film suffer, with the studio spending less time on the film and more on securing money to pay the rent. In the end we will have to pay for the third of the film out of our own pockets. I feel that larger co-productions and funding outside the state funds is the only way to secure the funds for the entire film, which in our case is around 90 000 euros… But!, enough- I am happy to post new models for the film- The first one is of the old woman as a little girl and the other is the neighbour, for whom we have already done the morph targets…
So, stay tuned for new updates!:)
First look at a finished scene!
December 15th, 2009 by veljkoHi guys!
Well, im veeerrry excited to show you the final render of one of the scenes in the film!
Yepe:)- it takes around 20 layers of rendered and hand drawn material to get the final look.
This of course means a lot of rendering and storage space, which i feel is one of the main issues we will
have to solve for this production to go smoothly
lemonade3d demo reel 2009
December 13th, 2009 by veljkohi guys!
here is a demo reel of the stuff we did so far,
hope you enjoy it!
Blend shapes
December 8th, 2009 by veljkoHi folks!
Here is a render of the blend shapes for the facial animation of one of the characters in the film:) The character will be animated by our German colleague Moritz Mayerhofer-
animation tests
December 7th, 2009 by veljkoHi guys!
Its been a few days since the last post for the film- we have been working hard to overcome the problems of the final rendering and visual look of the film- With the HD resolution we are rendering the film in, comes a lot of new problems for us regarding rendering and storage- It takes around 20 layers to get the look for the film and as much as 6 different renders per frame of the film- This creates a logistical nightmare and a problem with test renderings…we have created the pipeline and have set the visual of the film so hopefully it will go much smoother now!-
Here is an animation test for one of the scenes in the movie-It is a scene in the bathroom, the granny just got scared by a moth which flu out from behind the bathroom light above the mirror.
