Young animators

Friday, February 13, 2015

My toys

My sons toys, We OK I did the animating and sound he watched it. My son was only one year at the time, we captured some sound he liked playing with the microphone and made sounds so we captured some at the same time. And here it is tadaa dim the lights popcorn and soda ore just enjoy the show.

Made with a older Canon EOS camera.

Friday, January 30, 2015

Let children take charge.

It's lunch time and we sat down at the table a child started planning an animation with a worm. I got inspired and said yes let’s make the background and go from there. And we have a new Nokia Lumia 625 phone to take the pictures with and now we are making a simple and short animation hmmm short let’s see when we start.

Background fore the animation.

Saturday, January 17, 2015

Collaborations a sensitive process

Some time back about eight years it was decided to get in contact with the national broadcasting company in Finland and get a movie shown on a children’s program that children had made from storyboard to editing but the answer was no. Do to the quality of the film and they did not have appropriate shows listed to air. The film was about “A day at kindergarten” from breakfast to afternoon. We were surprised by the denial from national broadcasting company but not disappointed and we did an extraordinary happening for the premier of the movie.

ACTION!

It was a evening full of anticipating when we got to borrow a local cinema fore the premiere of the film A day at kindergarten. Parents and gran parents where invited. Local press was called children felt like stars when media interviewed them "En dag på dagis " as the film is called in Swedish was a success and a memory fore life. Every child got the film on DVD to watch at home in the future.

Did attempt to get a mobile phone manufacture in Finland to collaborate with children and the possibility to animate and make films with the camera on a mobile phone but the answer was not interested. Some time later film director Spike Lee gathered film clips and made in my taste a peculiar production fore the same company. I have teach children to animate with mobile phones because that is something they carry with them and the animation can be watched when the pictures are rapidly seen on the phone. One we made was Taitava nalle as can be seen in earlier blog text Could animating be easier from 2008.

By taking contact and collaborate with different companies the meaning in doing increases for children it doesn't mean it needs to be in astronomical measures but small things can spark ideas for a enterprise and working towards a goal outside kindergarten.