'Adolescence'

Hey! In two days - 09.10 there will be brand new episode on our You Tube Channel!

It's called 'Adolescence' and it's about being adult.. :)

Bear Me series is soooo on!

12th of July we had a premiere of the first episode of the series. Today we are launching second episode. Have you seen it already?

https://www.youtube.com/user/BearMeStory/videos

'Bear me' series Co-Producers

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It's on! (Alan!)
I"m getting a little bit stressed! Shiuuu, time is running so fast!   
We start Production of the 'Bear me' series in a month! We finished storyboards, 
now polishing animatics and drawing backgrounds (lots of backgrounds...)

I'm happy to announce that the animation will be realized in Gdansk through Grupa Smacznego! http://g-s.pl/ ,  Grupa Smacznego! on Facebook    
Brilliant  animators, great crew, in an awesome city - I can't wait!

Color grading and FX will be done in Badi Badi - http://www.badibadi.com/
and O.K.O. FX Studio. I've already seen the magic - Color grading in Badi Badi :)

Sound for 'Bear me' series, narration and music will be realized in Studio Spot - http://studiospot.pl/ 
StudioSpot on Facebook, Łukasz Targosz will take care of the music! 

From the legal side support us Firma Prawnicza LSW  http://www.lsw.com.pl

And all of this great studios - people, were gathered and befriended by my producer, Grześ Wacławek from Animoon Studio.   Thanks! :)

'Bear me' series is  co-financed by the Polish Film Institute -  http://www.pisf.pl/en/

As soon as, I have a good feelin' about it :) 
I mean series. Production. We have good, talented, crazy on their ways people. With passion, flow, sens of humor (very important) and maybe the most important, people who believe in the Bear Story. I hope that the first season will be as good as it seems to be :)

More news soon. Stay tuned!

'Bear me' references I

* POLISH SHORTS:

from: http://polishshorts.pl/pl/katalog_filmow/animacja/1228/

To zabawny film o dziewczynie i niedźwiadku. Narratorka Lili opowiada nam historię o swojej podróży w towarzystwie pewnego uroczego, niezdarnego niedźwiadka. Opowieść pokazuje relacje z rosnącą bestią...

* PALM SPRING PRIZE 2012:

from: http://www.psfilmfest.org/news/detail.aspx?NID=327&year=2012

BEST STUDENT ANIMATION Palm Springs Int Shortfest First Place – Bear Me (Germany, Poland), Kasia Wilk
A young woman’s object of love, and other desires, is a surprisingly strange choice in her seemingly otherwise quite normal world.

* CIVIS 2013 Prize winner European Young CIVIS Media Prize

from: http://www.civismedia.eu/index.php?id=143&L=1

"Bear me" is an amusing animated film about love, everyday life and everything that is part of a relationship from an idealistic point of view. One day Lilly discovers a bear waiting at the bus stop and takes it home with her. At the beginning both are inseparable, but there are some discrepancies little by little in her relation. Lilly does not further take these into account. Whether fair-haired or brown, whether great or small and why the bear should be an exception? It is only a little different.

* Bear me in Dublin 2013!

from: https://www.facebook.com/KINOPOLIS.DUBLIN

Freshly Squeezed International Student Short Film Festival kickes off on May 12 with a number of screenings and workshops piped up for the whole day of movie madness. Among this year's shortlisted there is ''Bear Me'' directed by Kasia Wilk. This talented Polish animator created a story of a little bear and a girl as her diploma project at Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg during her student exchange.

 * Prix du Jury pour Bear Me de Kasia Wilk

from:  Grizzly Studio.com

 Ce Week end, en tant que juré du Festival Internationnal de court metrage d'animation Court mais bon du Puy en Velay, je ne suis pas peu fier d'avoir pu distinguer l'excellent Bear Me de Kasia Wilk, c'est beau, c'est intelligent et ça nous change un peu de tous les erzsatz et autres pâles et lisses imitations en 3D de Pixar et Dreamworks.
Et oui, j'avoue, en bon teigneux que je suis, je me suis bien fighté pour que ce film ait le prix du jury !

Kasias Face

Storyboards

                                           
Storyboards.
...or sorryboards as my friend Kulkin used to say.

 So I started to draw sorryboards for 'Bear me' series.
 It's funny as hell, seriously. After drawing 200 shot you just laugh...

Still, I have pure joy from 'reanimation' my characters. So many new
adventures, situations, cheesy moments (I love cheesy moments!) :)

I work on scripts and storyboards with two great guys Grześ Wacławek,
producer of the series and Michał Poniedzielski, our script director
whose wicked sense of humor keeps us alive :) 

I already wrote you sth about 'Bear me' series.. and I think I can tell
you that a new character appear in the story. It's Miss Dyniak, the neighbor
of Lili and bear. She isn't, to put it mildly, the biggest fan of the bear...
More about series soon :)
Stay Tuned!