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Shooting film at the Faroe Islands

admin — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 09:21:30 +0000

I just returned from a two week trip to the Faroe Islands, shootning material for a documentary about storytelling in the country. We are writing about the project on the development blog. (In Danish).

Honorable mention at the ITSA Film Festival

admin — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 15:26:57 +0000

This weekend Connected was awarded an Honorable Mention at the 2011 ITSA Film Festival in Groveland, California. I directed Connected together with Jens Raunkjær Christensen a few years ago, and it is still being screened at festivals around the world.

You can read more about the film at the official website: www.ov43.com

Support from Mentanargrunnur Landsins

admin — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 11:31:42 +0000

As I have mentioned in a previous post I am currently working on a film project about storytelling on the Faroe Islands. You can read more about the project on the development blog. (In Danish).
This week we received financial support from the Faroese fund Mentanargrunnur Landsins. Earlier this year we were also supported by The Danish Film Workshop and the Faroese cultural ministry Mentamálaráðið. We are currently planing the first round of shooting, and are really looking forward to the final result.

Final Cut Plug-In

admin — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 10:05:59 +0000

This week I was hired by Nordisk Film TV, to develop a image enhancement plug-in, to solve a specific issue in a upcoming tv show. The final result was a simple drag and drop plugin, that I programmed using Final Cut FxScript.

Vox pop for The Royal Danish Theatre

admin — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 09:31:44 +0000

In cooperation with the designstudio Barq I produced this vox pop for Visit Kolding and The Royal Danish Theatre. The video is promoting the annual performance by The Royal Danish Theatre at Skamlingsbanken with highlights from this years opera and ballet season. We asked citizens to describe their personal feelings about ballet and opera, and compiled a selection of the many great answers we recieved.

Storytelling from the Faroe Islands

admin — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 08:56:26 +0000

On our first research trip to the Faroe Islands

Currently I am working with Jens Raunkjær Christensen on a film project documenting the storytellers of the amazing and remote Faroe Islands. The project is backed by several Faroese sponsors and is supported by the Film Workshop at the Danish Film Institute. Principal photography is planed to take place in September 2011. We are writing about the project on the development blog. (In Danish).

1001 Secret for kids…

admin — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 09:33:42 +0000

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I recently assisted Deluca Film on their project “1001 secrets for kids, not for grown-ups”, directed by the Danish director trio, Frank Molino. I worked mainly with 3D tracking of the scenes, but they also asked me to composit the scene used in the trailer above, where our protagonist enters the secret Coffee Factory…

Graphic design and art direction in the film was done by Anders Ladegaard. The film premiered at Odense International Film Festival 2010, and will be broadcasted later this year on TV2.

Travel photography from Iceland

admin — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 09:02:57 +0000

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In the beginning of March 2010 I traveled to Iceland to attend the annual Northern Wave Film Festival where my short film Connected had been selected to screen. While I was there, I spend a few days traveling around the island with my co-director Jens R. Christensen, to experience the spectacular Icelandic landscape. I shot a few quick video clips of the some of the places we visited: The Hellisheiði Geothermal Power Station, the Geysir Hot springs at Laugarfjall and the amazing Gullfoss waterfall.

The film was shot on the Canon 5D Mark II using the 24-105 L lens. Please make sure to view it in full screen for the best experience.

Radiolarians #01

admin — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:54:05 +0000

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I decided to develop my modeling and compositing skills with a brief spare time project: A short ambient movie with inspiration from the drawings of radiolarians by Ernst Haeckel. Nature never fails as an amazing source of inspiration. The movie above is the first iteration on the that project, a few quick test renders of different models, to get a sense of the images I could produce.

Inspiration

Haeckel was a German biologist from nineteenth-century most famous for his work and drawings on radiolarians, a group of single-celled zooplankton, with beautiful and intricate mineral skeletons. They are found throughout the ocean, and their skeletal remains cover large portions of the ocean bottom. With their extensive variations of interesting symmetrical shapes I saw these organisms as a great modeling challenge, that could possibly produce some really nice images.

Illustrations from "Radiolaria" (1887) by Ernst Haeckel

Creating the movie

The basic topological modeling was created in TopMod. A great piece of open source software, perfect for this type of geometric/organic modeling.

Modeling in TopMod

Selection of models in TopMod

Final modeling, texturing, animation and rendering was done i Maya. Compositing was done i AfterEffects.

The music in the film is Glacier by Supersole. Available at Opsound, the track is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license. Hence the movie is released under the same license.

Whats next

Future developments on the project will focus on more variations in models, color variations, light, particles and radical experiments on the final look of the film.

Buy the Connected poster

admin — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:22:02 +0000

Connected poster & closeups

The poster for the short film I directed with Jens R. Christensen is now being sold in a limited edition of only 73 numbered prints. The poster is designed by Anders Baden Nielsen and Joaquim Marquès Nielsen from the design studio Barq. It is 66 cm x 100 cm and offset printed on nice thick 200g recycled paper.

Worldwide shipping available. Visit the webshop here: ov43.bigcartel.com

Connected, official website

admin — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:50:57 +0000

We have now launched the official website for our short film Connected, that I have directed with Jens R. Christensen. The website gives an in depth look behind the scenes. www.ov43.com

HAUS, behind the scenes

admin — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:11:13 +0000

The HAUS website is finally online. You can see my presentation of the final project here. I have selected a few images representing some of the extensive process behind the films: Previsualization, shooting, stockfootage and post prodction. This post is still being updated, a more detailed description of the process will added later.

Previsualization

Kitchen, previsualization

Furniture, previsualization

Lighting, previsualization

Bedroom, previsualization

Shooting

The raw film was shot on location in HAUS and in studios.

Bedroom, scene setup

Bedroom, wire shoot

Kitchen, studio

Stockfootage

We needed a few quite specific effects in the movies: An exploding ice block and a table set on fire. The effects was shot at a separate location, and added to the final movies.

Postproduction

Testing grass for the green furniture room:

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Animated and rendered 3D lobster:

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Removing unwanted objects in footage

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