/// ZOTHMUND ///

After a few years my graduation film is able to be shar(k)ed here finally.

/// ZOTHMUND TRAILER ///

Ladies and Gentlemen it's time to invite you in the bubbly-dangerous world of Zothmund.

POSTER

Zothmund OST ™

I am so glad to share the original soundtrack of my graduation film called Zothmund. It was made by Gergely Buttinger who is just like a great composer!!! My instruction was for him to create a classical music enviroment by a fearful-adventure themes which remind us any sharks like the Jaws however not to be similar. I guess it was a hard job but he did his best in my point of view.

Zothmund 3D Shark

I have done a 3D shark and it's a great joy to play with it!

Zothmund

I have graduated at Mome Animation Master degree.
About my film. It isn't a complete version what I have done. I am planning to continue it in the end of summer. I have record the live action scenes with a sweet little child and with my GoPro and I think these are a really nice videos but my Serious Adult Commenters (SAC) can't understand it. You know this kind of humor cames from the Nickelodeon channel like Sponge bob or Chowder. In this program they change the technic sometimes and you can watch live action scenes with pirots or David Hasselhoff. The SAC had a problem with the child swimming suit because his mother take care of his child and as it was sooo naturally for me. So you can't see any cocks in my film. I am sure if I show small penisis in my graduation film it would be a same problem. I am not this artist who works with this parts of the people. But I have one great and simple idea to do it! So for me it's a challenge.
I can show some stills which are the final pictures from my film. I like the taste of these pictures but I am missing something salt or sweet details. I will see.

Sharks

I have finished the Truck short film I will share here soon.
I have written the theory essay too so what I just going to do is the shark film with Zothmund and a child juuuuhuuuuuuuu!
I show you my shark gif collection.

***Zothmund Visual Taster***

I've found the final visual of Zothmund project. I used an inner shadow and a raster as a stylized noise to broke the simple, homogene shapes. Sometimes I'm bored my style so I'm glad to use this raster as something new.

I was drawing on paper but the colors, shadows and rasters are done by computer.

ANIMATION
I will use 2D animation in Anime Studio like the Frog-tango. It's not a frame by frame drawing technic rather a paper cut animation with bones, moving-flowing vector points and flexible movements. I can use the raster as a texture for the selected shape in animation aaaand it's possible to scale, move too.

ZOTHMUND
The left character is from 2008 and the rights the new. He is a fisher-hunter boy, he eats fishes but a bigger fish also can eat him. And one of the most important I want to make a real toy from him and the shark too.

COLOR
My concept is based on a complementary colors, the air and the "normal world" is yellowish and the water is bluish. This is the reason for the yellow bubbles, because I'm bored to use blue bubbles. So the color of Zothmund's skin changes too and the glasses are always inverse. Not to mention that the yellow and the blue are a typical diver colors.

BACKGROUND
His room has one fisheye view and try to collect every kind of fish things. The floor, his stuffs as a surf ironing board, fishing chair, aquarium tv and a klippan sofa from ikea. His car parking inside.
The shark has a nightmare, ghost version and it comes in and try to hurt, bite, catch him. I have only one version of it in the video.

The city where he flees by car is a shower-soap-flacon-skyscraper city. I use just a form however I think it's better if I do more understandable of this bathroom things. We will see.

THE SHARK
I was thinking how to draw a GREAT white shark, because a lot of drawings of shark are so stipud and to much "angry" and lame. I like a pretty cool shark wich is funny and frightening enough. This also goes to be a toy, if it opened his mouth it would be amazing!

CHILD
I'm planing to make some live action scenes when a child play with them in the bath. The child around 5 years old, is a real child and his toys too. The live action and the animation scenes will change eachother step by step as the real world and the playing time are combined.
I met three child to exam and watch them how they play. Two of them are a brothers, Berci (7 years old) and Marci (5) could sit in the bath. I printed out and laminated the figures so they played with them like a toys. Gabi (5) had no bath and he rather wanted to play with cars. Every children liked the camera and they made ourselves funny faces. They talked about horror and everybody ate everybody there was no peace. You can see the color of live action is yellowish too like in Zothmund's world.

Well I won't use blood in the movie but they won't drink a cup of tea next to eachother. As I haven't have animatic yet I made a concept video of this slides with music and a little animation to explain the genre and give an impression. I used a original sound track of Leon the professional -The Fight (part 2 - Bring Me Everyone) as a temp music (example music). I like this classical, scary but sometimes funny music, my favourite is the submarine drum.
The scenes of life footage shark are from the tv. The Animal Planet had a shark month in autum and I recorded it.

So this is the point where I'm now, enjoy the concept video, the small short taster of Zothmund!


Zothmund Animation Graduation
2013 MOME MA

*** Graduation film -Zothmund ***

I have started the last year at the university. The master graduation is rather based on the five years instead of just the two. So I am try to collect everything knowledge and push it in this film.

My project based on my get entry comic what I draw five years ago, the first thing for mome. Its a very simple Jaw's story, Zothmund the diver catch a shark, as his job or a request but at the and we have a joke.

I would like to record the and as a live-action with a real toys what I will make after the final character design. Now with my teachers we working on the story but i need time to let trickling out the happenings and what-why things.
I have some digital paintings for the solution of water and bubbles. I would like to show this fall in scene slowly to enjoy the different material as the water give you this special feeling.

And I have some page of storyboard which are only the first idea! I have wanted to make a fried eggs breakfast scene for a long time and a driving scene too like in the Drive movie. His car is a Citroen DS from 1972, it's called shark.
The under water scenes are still in work in progress brainstorming.

The graduation exam is include an essay too which theme is so closer to the film. I am reading a books about child fantasy and psychology, mitology, shark legends and surrealism.