Strawinsky:animated – Character Design

Voilá – some screenshots and pictures of the character concept and design process.
We ended up animating very minimalistic shapes. Square for the soldier, circle for the princess and triangle for the devil. After all it totally fit into the scene together with the great acting of Uwe Topmann – who represented three characters on stage.

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Early character conepts

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At some point director Daniel Pfluger decided that he wanted a rather realistic looking princess for one special scene in which the actress is entering the stage for the first time. We made some suggestions…cd 02cd 04cd 03cd 05
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final main-characters: princess, devil, soldier.
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Strawinsky:animated

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We had the chance to work on a theater show for Podium Festival combining live orchestra, acting, dance and animation.

Podium Festival is a young european music festival located in Esslingen.
It’s an incredible fresh and creative and innovative event with stunning musicians and performances, for more information visit: www.strawinsky-animated.de
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Johannes has allready shared some beautyful concept work he did for the show. Head over to his blog for some insight. http://johannesflick.blogspot.de/
Stay tuned for there is some more “behind the scenes” work coming up.

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