Latest blog posts by kloijhi

IKAR

16 12 2012 04:11:05 +0000

My new short comic.

http://www.filmannex.com/galleries/photo/1576/92371

comics

07 05 2012 06:58:26 +0000

last few weeks i spent in comics world.

I must admit it seems comics language is oldest visual narrative form in human history. Long before books. Also its more different than language of dance, song or book.

Book allows you to imagine everything writer wants, but problem is , you can't "see" more than you know.And biggest problem is - i am not a writer. Word is not my tool.

Song allows you to feel, what book don't allow. It builds vibrations inside you, and those feelings are the main story.

Dance is most abstract form of visual narrative. You can see only what you know. And i am not a dancer.

So, maybe, is worth to think about all my short ideas to put on paper in some comics form?

Also storyboards basicly are "type of comics"

HM....

If there is genre in literature named "Literal Play" (plays witch never be played on stage, and are ment to live on paper only, as reeding source) so maybe there is worth to think about movies, who will be only as storryboard.

SO, maybe i will draw some comics, or storyboard.

"my first" PLAYBOY

24 04 2012 03:47:28 +0000

wow.

I am glad to announce that all day long i working on my first Playboy illustration! Of corse it sounds bether than maybe its in reality, cos this issue is one of those "regional" numbers, witch are different in every country and just use brand PLAYBOY.

Anyway im happy to do drawing for such a brand! Story is some kind of cheap criminal type. But who cares.

I always thought that PLAYBOY have way too less nudity and way to mutch glance. Some kind of building stereotypes for people about life in style. I don't use rollex and dont drive on Jaguar or Porche, i don't go hunting and i dont search best carrebian isle for diving.

another character mess

20 04 2012 07:36:29 +0000

seems, sometimes is quite hard to hold yoursef inside terithory you pointed befor movie production!

Problem is when during production, your character slightly changes, its time for him to get life through hands of animators, but he stoped and screamed : "WAIT! Am i look readdy for your movie?"

And i start to think...mh... maybe let's add this and that here and there.. so after 3 days it's completley different character, but also great one.

God! its so hard.

Time spent on one short movie is huge, and of corse, during this production time your brains and way of thinking evulate. But what to do with all good ideas wich don't fit under inner rules of movie? Or worse - there are some good ideas, and them could make your film more "deeper", but also will cut off a huge piece of simplicity from main idea why this film is made.

How good directors solve this problem? Or they make movies for big screen and simply don't have freedom of independet filmmakers?

any ideas?

National Film Award

11 04 2012 04:18:34 +0000

wow!

Movie ECLIPSE is nominated for Latvian National Film Award (Lielais Kristaps) in categories:

Best Animation Artist (its me) and

Best Original Musics (its group TOTEM)

very nice!

film is here:

http://www.filmannex.com/movie/eclipse/1088

W.I.P.

04 04 2012 03:55:52 +0000

New film in progress!

atm 1:50sec from 4min is maded in "black" stage. Never thought that building classics pencil on paper animation will take so long.

word on screen

03 12 2011 16:12:48 +0000

funny! to type a word in screenplay is about 2sec... to create the same word in movie can be endless journey.

stupid head

19 11 2011 15:14:35 +0000

19.11.2011 imagine, somehow i lost in a shop my new animation movie background pack for layouts!!!! So in next day i went back to shop and wow.. i got back my backgrounds. why i'm telling this? Those backgrounds were from action sequence witch im not shure about being in film. So maybe its a sign - to not put in movie sequence witch runs away from you by itself. maybe im just giving to much mean for something meaningless... ok i lost bacgrounds and found them. so what?

Robot Virus 10.11.11

10 11 2011 04:53:52 +0000

Just updated profile gallery! So there are some stills from older movie + new movie project and concept art. o take a look!

Robot Virus

10 07 2011 04:59:56 +0000

almost forgot to post here new concepts from Robot Virus animation. also Animatics in progress, so maybe will uploud it for public pre view. This will be my first classics drawn animation. here is art; http://www.karlisvitols.info/blog.php

Thinking AVATAR

06 09 2010 07:49:17 +0000

so, since i saw my first Motion Capture movie "polar Express" the tehnology envolved and even after "Beowoolf" i realize the pover of animation... but after "AVATAR" i get the point -this tehnology is future of modern cinema!! Why? Because emotions of these 3D carachters were far mor behind human actors, and power of my viewers believe in them was the best one... only by this simple fact, that these blue humanioids was animated. So here i am at the edge of choosing by my viewers path, do i want to believe in real human actor, or i can believe with no doubts to animated character in animated world. I choose 2! Cos in first case, actor is a human like me and doing his best to emulate story and hero of my inner mind... ok, he is good, but what next? He is so "correct" and "straight", that i can believe him until one pont...where i catch myself thinking: ok this is a movie and it can't do nothing with my soul... ok, i cried, laught but thats all.. instead animated character! Why, because animated character can do the same things what real actor even more, but differencies are in my mind, animated character for me is an absoloute, hi is against depicting documentary real lifes simulation on screen. Even if he will do that same regular action - drinking tea from cup- who do my mind will believe more? Tom Cruise or Blue Avatar?... moust will scream Tom, Tom... but i believe mind will catch up on Blue Avatar tea drinkers actions, cos them are more literature, more abstract, and leave more place for our mind, our imagination. And imagination is pushing force for characthers life, even if there are little amount of it. So cant wait until next motion ccapture artpiece... and who knows maybe after 10 years, all dead moviestars will apear in new - upgraded reality films, in what we wil believe more than real Greta Garbo or Humphrey Bogart.

animation characters

19 08 2010 07:11:57 +0000

Since last days, i have been working on my new (one of) project visualizations... Its quite challenging, cos you want to make bether than you ever did before, and keep the same values of your signature stile... also characters must be seriously deep, but in the same time cartoony, they must fit for every situation in joke or drama. By the same time these upcoming heroes must represent all characteristic in static moment - in sighn, to avoid doubts for audiance: is it stupid, or bad, what he likes and loves etc. So in animation character must be like a sign on a road. ah yes... main thing, you must love them, by looking on them, its a misterious goldmine between you, character and audiance. Its a half of interesting storry, interesting and deep portrait af cartoon hero.

Devil's Fuji

22 07 2010 04:42:06 +0000

so... so i decided that it would be a nice thing to uploud all my 32 min action samurai movie into this page. duno will it be one piece or splited many parts. hm.. how to uploud images here?

ANNECY 2010

15 06 2010 14:25:01 +0000

wow wow, now im back from Annecy2010!!! incredible how my latest short animation ECLIPSE get there in out of competition screenings... man its a miracle!! congrats myself ura!