Drops is an experimental watercolor short film dealing with the concept of life and death.

Drops

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Drops is a 5 minutes, 2D animated and hand colored short film for children and families. It aims to combine the theme “water” with a water colored narrative describing the fleeting perishability of life and the strength of togetherness and community.

Drops

About

Drops is an experimental watercolor short film dealing with the concept of life and death.

Through this production, the team behind Drops created a new IP combining watercolors and a funny story targeted to children in order to tackle a most serious aspect of life; Death. The film was premiered at Viborg Animation Festival 2016 together with an exhibition/installation at the Skovgaards Museet, Viborg, themed "The Spirits of Nature".

Project start date: 1 February 2016
Project end date: 30 June 2017
Meet the artists

Meet the artists

Sarah Joy Jungen, Art director and owner
After co-directing her animation debut Drops in 2015, Sarah co-founded the animation company Ox and Bird. She has kept the visual standard high on commercial productions like "Ordblindhed" and "Nordjyske". Sarah has a bachelor from The Russian Art academy in Florence, in classical art.

Karsten Peter Kjærulf-Hoop, Creative director and owner
Karsten has worked in the animation business for 6 years and graduated with a degree in character animation from The Animation Workshop, Denmark. He has experience with directing animated short films, ads and infomercials. Visit www.oxzen.dk for personal work.

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Selected Festivals:
Ljubljana Film Festival
Tofuzi Film Festival
Copenhagen Short Film Festival
Sapporo Film Fest
Frederikstad Animation Festival
Cinekid Film Festival Holland
Tromsø TIFF Norway
Rolan International Film Fest

Sarah Joy Portræt and Karsten Kjærulf Hoop

Sarah Joy Portræt

Karsten Kjærulf Hoop
Funded

Det Danske Filminstitut

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The Danish Film Institute is the national agency for funding and promoting Danish film and cinema culture.

Den Vestdanske Filmpulje

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The West Danish Film fund support films, documentaries, television series and multimedia productions, including international co-productions, which further the strengthening of the film industry in the region.

Viborg Kommune

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Viborg municipality is a municipality (Danish, kommune) in Region Midtjylland on the Jutland peninsula in northern Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 1,421.04 km², the second largest in Denmark, and has a population of 94,622 (1 April 2014). Viborg is the capital of Region Midtjylland.

Danish Film Directors

The Danish Animation Society

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ANIS was formed to unite Danish animation professionals and thereby strengthen their collective goals.

Sparekassen Kronjylland
Partners

The Skovgaard Museum

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The Skovgaard Museum is the only art museum in Denmark, which is dedicated to the artistic heritage of one family - the Skovgaard family. It is housed in a landmark heritage building, in the old 18th century town hall, right in the very heart of Viborg. Here, right next to Viborg Cathedral, works by four generations of the Skovgaard family and their contemporaries are displayed alongside related contemporary artworks. Between 1901 and 1906, Joakim Skovgaard, along with a number of assistants, decorated the walls and vaults of the cathedral with 51 frescoes. He returned in 1912 to 1913, in order to add a new ceiling decoration, this time using oil paint on wood, replacing Lund's original ceiling. The result was the most comprehensive architectural decoration ever created in Denmark, an extraordinary and innovative artistic feat that to this day stands as one of the masterpieces of Danish art.

GotFat

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GotFat Productions is a visionary production company, situated in Aarhus, Denmark. Life can be stranger than fiction, but that doesn’t mean that we only do documentaries. Sometimes a story is better told as a work of fiction. Maybe we are spoiled. Or a naive bunch of dreamers, but we believe that everything is possible if we just give it our best. We are very proud of out amazing slate of documentaries, series and fiction projects that we develop with talented people from all over the world.

Ox and Bird

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Ox and Bird, Animation Production Company, has been making animation films for companies and personalities since 2015, when the company was founded during the creation of the short film and kicker-starter hit Drops. The films are made with artistic integrity and the visual expression tend to be slightly more edgy than the average animation film. We work closely with our customers to find the best solutions in terms of narration, appearance and speak.
Contact

Karsten Kjærulf Hoop

Project Manager

T: + 45 30 29 64 17

E: karsten@oxandbird.com