12th episode!

So here it is 12the episode of Bear Me series. I hope you will like it although it is not a funny one..

The Bear on spanish bench

Ha! My friend Marlenka just sent me a photo from holiday. Why a bench? Took me few minutes to solve this mystery... I drew on the photo to save your time

Thanks Marlenka, have a nice vacation! 

Evening with Lili and the bear

Yeah, tough evening. Still drawing illustrations for the end credits... Passed 99 picture.. Just 44 more to finish. Lili I hate you.

Sketchbook

Today I have for you a layout for first episode of series, and a few pages from 'Bear me' sketchbook.

The production of 'Bear me' series in progress... We have two episodes already animated! Yupii! 

kasias face

'Bear me' for president!

Crazy week for 'Bear me'!!!
 
Little bear won Jury's Prize Festival int. Du court metrage, Cergy-Pointoise in France - http://www.grizzly-studio.com/drupal/?q=node%2F229&fb_action_ids=10152265770604897&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_source=timeline_og&action_object_map={%2210152265770604897%22%3A146267158885040}&action_type_map={%2210152265770604897%22%3A%22og.likes%22}&action_ref_map
and Best Animated Film on 15th international Filmfestival of the Filmacademy in Viena - http://2013.filmfestivalwien.com/
and Best Animated Short on Cleveland International Film Festival! - http://www.clevelandfilm.org/about/awards
 
Even more crazy is that 'Bear me' after Cleveland has chance to be nominated to Oskar! Keep your little fingers crossed!

'Bear me' seres - new sketchbook

New sketchbook. For 'Bear me' series only.

Dear Lili,
what exactly am I doing?
Just started brand new sketchbook! It's for 'Bear me' series only.
Sketches for storyboards. Have few more pages but I don't want
to spoil you one of the episodes.I have 8 storyboards for your new
adventures! ( 4 left to finish the first season) Work in progress.
Stay in touch!

Your sincerely,
Kasia Wilk

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!

'Bear me' on festivals in 2013

Current list of festivals where you can see 'Bear me'

1. Premi Ciutat de Palma d’Animació Independent 2012, Palma de Mallorca / Spain (08.-10.01.2012)
2. Bamberger Kurzfilmtage, Bamberg / Germany (21-27.01.2013)
3. Anima Brussels, Flagey/ Belgium (08.-17.02.2013)
4. Flicks International Student Short Film Festival 2013, Groningen/Netherlands (13.-15.03.2013)
5. Landshuter Kurzfilmfestival, Landshut / Germany (13.-18.03.2013)
6. Regensburger Kurzfilmwoche, Regensburg / Germany (13.-20.03.2013)
7. Atlanta Film Festival, Atlanta / USA (15.-24.03.2013)
8. Festival international du film d´Aubagne, France (Off-competition)(18.-23.03.2013)
9. Holland animation film festival, Utrecht / Netherlands (20.-24.03.2013)
10. Int. Motion festival Cyprus, Nicosia / Cyprus (22.-24.03.2013)
11. Cleveland Int. film festival, Cleveland; OH / USA (03.-14.04.2013)
12. Internationales Filmfestival der Filmakademie Wien 2013, Austria (10.-14.04.2013)
13. Filmfest Dresden, Germany (16.-21.04.2013)
14. Independent Days Filmfest, Karlsruhe / Germany (24.-28.04.2013)
15. Kyiv International Short Film Festival, Kyiv / Ukraine (24.-28.04.2013)
16. BEFILM. New York / USA (23.-27.04.2013)
17. Sapporo Short Fest, California Independent film festival showcase, Japan (11.-16.09.2013)
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    

'Bear me' series...

Hi, my name is Lili and... I don't know if I told you that 'Bear me' is going to be realized as a series...

Yes, eight months ago, after the polish premiere of 'Bear me' on Lodza po Wisle 2012, I met Grześ Wacławek, the producer from Animoon Studio. He got an awesome idea to make a series out of my diploma movie.

We started working in August 2012. Developing story, plots and new characters, first scripts. At the and of the year we happily received funding from Polish Film Institute. 

Production will take a while...The whole fun, animation and post production is yet to come but - it's on!!!

More information (in polish) you can find on  http://animoonstudio.com/pl/filmy/bear-me

First illustration is one of the set designs for first episode.

Second -  few rough sketches of Lili, just to remember the character :)

work in progres

Those are few pages of my sketch book with rough plans of scenes and animation.
There were tones of projects... in one point I could draw Lili and the bear with left hand and closed eyes.
Neee, I'm kidding but still, a lot of drawings were made.

storyboard - first sketches

...the beginnings of the long story, working on storyboard and script with the great help of professor Andreas Hykade

Development of the characters

The first sketches of Lili and the Bear - Poland, 2009.

Yeah, as you see the year of 'Bear me' production is 2012, so it took me a loooong time from the idea to the final result.
First steps were made during consultations with professor Piotr Dumała

... but let me start from the begining...

... once upon a time a girl met a bear.

Hi, my name is Kasia Wilk and I made a movie...
This blog is about my diploma animated short - 'Bear me'.
The movie was realized in Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg in Ludwigsburg during student exchange program from my home school PWSTViT in Lodz.

'Bear me' - 5'30"
Real. - Kasia Wilk
Prod. Ania Matacz http://www.shortfilmcentral.com/film/5146/
Copyrights Filmakademie Baden - Württenberg, 2012