Varelsen http://varelsen.com Mon, 23 Apr 2012 08:25:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Hjaltefar goes to China http://varelsen.com/2012/04/hjaltefar-goes-to-china/ http://varelsen.com/2012/04/hjaltefar-goes-to-china/#comments Mon, 16 Apr 2012 13:17:45 +0000 Martin Ottosson http://varelsen.com/?p=1031 Filmed during a ten day stay in Shanghai, Martin Ottosson shot and directed this three episode piece, featuring the Danish Nike Skateboarding team Hjalte Halberg, Anton Juul, Morten Bech and Nis Andersen. Previously aired on defekt.se.

Director, DOP, editor, motion graphics: Martin Ottosson
Music: Douglas Holmqvist, Kristofer Ström
Additional camera: Danijel Stankovic, Nis Andersen, Charles Lanceplaine

Episode 1

Episode 2

Episode 3

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animator and comp. by Erik Buchholtz

The video had over 600.000 views in less than four days on the UKF dubstepchannel.
YEY!

Directed & Animated by Kristofer Ström
Animation/comp: Erik Buchholtz
Produced by Tamsin Glasson/Colonel Blimp & Blinkink.

Kristofer also made the LP cover.

And here’s some really nice words about the monster:
“Following on from ‘Dinosaurs‘ for 16 Bit Kristofer Strom is back with another trippy music video, this time for Delta Heavy and their track ‘Hold Me’. It features a demonic looking girl and her zombie cat that fires lasers from its cold dead eyes. It’ll definitely give me nightmares.”
- Animated Review

“This video is just next level….”
- Borgore

“It’s another cracker by animation maestro Kristofer Ström for a dubstep smasher – this time Delta Heavy’s Hold Me.
The style is a bit more Japanese and it starts with this young lady disinterring her cat. The rest is just beautiful and strange – and a bit grisly. Fabulous.”
- Promonews

“RAM Records has officially put their head into the Dubstep game with this demented animation as an official video for Delta Heavy‘s new single “Hold Me“. Perfect for the Halloween season this dark and ghoulish animation is set in a pet cemetery where a legion of  zombie cats with laser eyes that slice up all in its path are on a death march to destroy all in its path.”
- WompTv

“Zdecydowanie dzisiejsze must see video : dziewczynka wykopująca swego tragicznie zmarłego pupila, powołuje do życia armię strzelających laserami z oczu kotów-zombie, która w transowym rytmie wyrusza na żer. Po raz kolejny (Dinosaurus, Baltimore Clap) Ström udowadnia swój talent w animowaniu dubstepowych kawałków:”
- I Watch Music

“Cute and seriously creepy. Kind of disturbing, actually; if you’re really sensitive to losing pets, you might not want to watch.”
- The Eyepool

“A combination of everything, this is great with cats playing the bongos, colours and a graveyard!”
- The Reel

]]> http://varelsen.com/2011/10/delta-heavy-hold-me/feed/ 0 Fantastisk Filmfestival 2011 http://varelsen.com/2011/10/fantastisk-filmfestival-2011/ http://varelsen.com/2011/10/fantastisk-filmfestival-2011/#comments Fri, 07 Oct 2011 11:47:57 +0000 Martin Ottosson http://varelsen.com/?p=941 Opening sequences for the annual Fantastic Film Festival in Lund/Malmö, Sweden, 2011.

Directed, shot and animated by Martin Ottosson and Kristofer Ström.
Sound design by Douglas Holmquist.
Edited by Martin Ottosson

]]> http://varelsen.com/2011/10/fantastisk-filmfestival-2011/feed/ 0 New flicks for Alga http://varelsen.com/2011/09/new-flicks-for-alga/ http://varelsen.com/2011/09/new-flicks-for-alga/#comments Tue, 20 Sep 2011 12:04:01 +0000 Martin Ottosson http://varelsen.com/?p=921 Together with the wonderful people at Top Dollar, we created a whole heap of films for Swedish board game company Alga. Some can be watched here, some at algaspel.se.

Camera: Nicholas Wakeham
Music and sound: Douglas Holmquist
Post production & animation: Martin Ottosson
Assisting post production: Edvin Olofsson

Crew Top Dollar
Director, creative: Tomas Melinder & Fredrik Silow
Editor, Project manager: Björn Wahlström
Stylist: Caroline Johansson/Scoop Models

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Camera: Nicholas Wakeham
Music and sound design: Douglas Holmquist
Post production & animation: Martin Ottosson
Assisting post production: Edvin Olofsson

Crew Top Dollar
Director, creative: Tomas Melinder & Fredrik Silow
Editor, Project manager: Björn Wahlström
Stylist: Caroline Johansson/Scoop Models

See all the films at algaspel.se.

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Camera: Nicholas Wakeham
Music and sound design: Douglas Holmquist
Post production & animation: Martin Ottosson
Assisting post production: Edvin Olofsson

Crew Top Dollar
Director, creative: Tomas Melinder & Fredrik Silow
Editor, Project manager: Björn Wahlström
Stylist: Caroline Johansson/Scoop Models

See all the films at algaspel.se.

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Camera: Nicholas Wakeham
Music and sound design: Douglas Holmquist
Post production & animation: Martin Ottosson
Assisting post production: Edvin Olofsson

Crew Top Dollar
Director, creative: Tomas Melinder & Fredrik Silow
Editor, Project manager: Björn Wahlström
Stylist: Caroline Johansson/Scoop Models

See all the films at algaspel.se.

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Camera: Nicholas Wakeham
Music and sound design: Douglas Holmquist
Post production & animation: Martin Ottosson
Assisting post production: Edvin Olofsson

Crew Top Dollar
Director, creative: Tomas Melinder & Fredrik Silow
Editor, Project manager: Björn Wahlström
Stylist: Caroline Johansson/Scoop Models

See all the films at algaspel.se.

]]> http://varelsen.com/2011/09/alga-sa-funkar-det-bondespelet/feed/ 0 16bit – Dinosaurs http://varelsen.com/2011/08/16bit-dinosaurs/ http://varelsen.com/2011/08/16bit-dinosaurs/#comments Mon, 22 Aug 2011 13:08:22 +0000 Kristofer Ström http://varelsen.com/?p=879 Kristofer Ström made this little video for 16bit.
Sort of an epileptic trip.

Released on August 29th on MTA Records.
Directed & Animated by Kristofer Ström. Colonel Blimp & Blinkink.

16bit – ‘Dinosaurs / Boston Cream’
MTA008
29th August 2011

Become a fan of 16bit: http://www.facebook.com/16bitmusic

]]> http://varelsen.com/2011/08/16bit-dinosaurs/feed/ 0 SpaceCrime http://varelsen.com/2011/05/spacecrime/ http://varelsen.com/2011/05/spacecrime/#comments Thu, 19 May 2011 22:37:46 +0000 Kristofer Ström http://varelsen.com/?p=859 Kristofer Ström was invited to have a speach at Visuelt in Oslo. Erik Buchholtz joined as moral support and VJ during the “show”.
Afterwards they hooked up with Ian Stevenson and Espen Schive for one, two, three…drinks.
Many hours of a discussion about the next big thing, SpaceCrime.
Kristofer recorded some of the discussion and the day after sketching started.
A couple of days later, it was finished…voliá!

Don’t commit the crime if you can’t do the SpaceTime.

Seriously!

Illustration/Animation: Kristofer Ström
Animation: Erik Buchholtz

Voices: Ian Stevenson, Espen Schive, Erik Buchholtz, Kristofer Ström

]]> http://varelsen.com/2011/05/spacecrime/feed/ 0 Varelsen – Reel 2011 http://varelsen.com/2011/05/varelsen-reel-2011/ http://varelsen.com/2011/05/varelsen-reel-2011/#comments Fri, 13 May 2011 09:06:40 +0000 Martin Ottosson http://varelsen.com/?p=851 Selected productions between 2007 and 2011.

Music by Douglas Holmquist
Edited by Edvin Olofsson

]]> http://varelsen.com/2011/05/varelsen-reel-2011/feed/ 0 Featured in Preview 11 http://varelsen.com/2011/04/featured-in-preview-11/ http://varelsen.com/2011/04/featured-in-preview-11/#comments Tue, 26 Apr 2011 16:54:23 +0000 Martin Ottosson http://varelsen.com/?p=847 Varelsen was recently featured in a lengthy interview in the magazine Preview 11, a project from Broby Grafiska. If you can’t get your hands on a physical copy, the interview, along with all other content from the magazine, is available online at preview11.se.

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