Short film
Directors: JOSEPH HODGSON, FRANCK AUBRY
Animation: RACECAR | [ Ссылка ]
Joseph Hodgson, co-director at Racecar in Oslo: "'Kiss' was an independent project, initiated by Racecar in order to give ourselves a creative workout. We set out to explore the consequence of something as innocent as a kiss.
"Like most projects, there were many creative challenges: Finding a look and style that we could pull off consistently and that would be beautiful to look at without being distracting from our story was an early challenge.
"The meeting scene was a huge challenge, as much technically as creatively. That scene was literally 'missing' for a long time before we finally created the particle/liquid/abstract meeting that's in the film now.
"The explosion of the sun was also a challenge. Again, trying to stay true to our visual style, but also trying to give it tremendous impact on screen.
"Also, how to end the film? We had lots of ideas, but most importantly we wanted it to be as open-ended as possible, to leave room for interpretation.
"There are so many layers in that one scene, some of which broke our all time render-time records (by a long way!). That in itself was a technical challenge. Render time, file size (we rendered at 4k), and file management were all logistical challenges along the way.
"I think the best kept secret about 'Kiss' is it was originally conceived and animated to another piece of music: a song called 'Mr Sun', by Brigitte Bardot from 1968. With the help of a lawyer we quickly found out that buying even just limited rights was going to push us way over budget for a job with no budget!
"It's a great song which could have worked really well, but in hindsight I'm glad we were forced to look elsewhere. Bendik are an up and coming young band who helped us by giving us their song, now hopefully we can help them in a small way by letting as many people as possible see our film and hear their music."
Schedule: "Three weeks plus numerous evenings and weekends."
For Racecar
Directors: Joseph Hodgson, Franck Aubry
Animation: Joseph Hodgson, Franck Aubry
Sound design: Erlend Elvesveen, Sven Erik Nordset
Sound mix: Erlend Elvesveen
Music: 'Stille' by Bendik
Toolkit
Cinema 4D, After Effects, Illustrator, Photoshop
