‘A BEAR NAMED WOJTEK’ SHORT FILM
Illuminated Films, Edinburgh (May-September 2022)
I worked alongside the UK-based animation team for ‘A Bear Named Wojtek’ as a Key Animator and Layout Artist on some of the later sequences in production. As this was a co-production between Illuminated Films in Edinburgh and an animation studio in Poland, my Key and Breakdown animation with timing charts would then be sent to the animation assistants from Poland and Ukraine to complete. This was an unusual project as all animation needed to be on 3’s for the colouring process to work effectively, so as someone who generally works on 2’s with some 1’s and 4’s, this was an interesting change.
I mostly worked on the characters of Piotr, the film’s protagonist and the Polish soldier who takes care of Wojtek, Beryl, the lady Piotr meets when he relocates to Scotland after the end of WW2, Beryl’s friends at the local Ceilidh for the Polish immigrants and Scottish Locals, and the director of Edinburgh Zoo.
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