Wild West Compressed
animated series, 2019, 2:39 min
It is the Wild West when cowboys ride through open spaces and cast melancholy gazes into the distance! On the big screen, we experience stories of epic duels between bounty hu
nters and outlaws. We breathe in the endless freedom of the American West. But even the Western genre has to move with the times. We are now in the age of the mobile phone!
With the new "Mobilescope", the genre expects the same cool performance from its cowboys as in the past. Will that work well?
My Tasks:
Directing, Story, Animatic, Layout & Setdressing, Compositing,
With the new "Mobilescope", the genre expects the same cool performance from its cowboys as in the past. Will that work well?
My Tasks:
Directing, Story, Animatic, Layout & Setdressing, Compositing,
About:
"Wild West Compressed" was produced at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg during the 5th semester, and it was definitely a lot of fun! Once we had figured out how to tease our cowboys, we were able to work on a lot of small, but heartfelt jokes that brought the series to life. The project has been a great experiment to see how much the medium of film and animation is capable of doing. Sitting in a packed cinema with everyone laughing was worth all the team's hard work and effort!
Team:
Director - Christian Kaufmann
Producer - Linda Krauss
Technical Directing - Janik Otterbach
Concept Art & Animation - Sarah Schulz, Laura Staab
Storyboards & Animation - Oscar Bittner
Animation & Graphic Design - Damaris Zielke
Modeling / Texturing & Look Development - Wunna Winter
Filmmusik - Hannes Bieber, Tim Hennig
Sounddesign - Johanna Roth
Play Direction - Timo Müssig, Sara Kindschus
Productioncompany - Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH
Awards:
Short Tiger Kurzfilmpreis 2020Winner Short Tiger Kurzfilmpreis 2020
Brüssel Anima Brussels Animation Film Festival 2020
Animation Night Audience Award for Best Short Film
kurz.film.fest Künzelsau 2021
Price of the Jury
Animattikon Project 2021
Special Mention Student Animated Shorts
Festivals:
Open-Air-Kurzfilmnacht Pfaffenhofen 2022
Singapore International Children's Film Festival 2022
Brussels Short Film Festival 2022
Univerciné Allemand Filmfestival Deutsch-französisches Kulturzentrum Nantes 2021
Paphos Animattikon Project 2021
Klosterneuburg Shortynale 2021
Apchat ONE Country ONE Film Festival 2021
ITFS Internationales Trickfilm Festival Stuttgart 2021
Landshuter Kurzfilmfestival 2021
Künzelsau kurz.film.fest Künzelsau 2021
Kinofest Lünen 2020
Festival des deutschen Films Moskau 2020
Tallin Pöff Shorts 2020
Los Angeles German Currants Film Festival Los Angeles 2020
Bukarest anim'est International Festival of Animated Films 2020
Mainz FILMZ Festival des deutschen Kinos 2020
Thessaloniki Animation Festival 2020
International Animation Festival Cardiff 2020
Festival of Animation Berlin 2020
Ottawa International Animation Festival 2020
Potsdam Sehsüchte Internationales Studentenfilmfestival 2020
Buenos Aires Festival de Cine Alemán 2020
Brussels Short Film Festival 2020
Cartoon Club - International Festival of Animation, Cinema and Comics 2020
NEXT GENERATION SHORT TIGER at Cannes Film Festival 2020
ITFS Internationales Trickfilm Festival Stuttgart 2020
International Animation Festival Cardiff 2020
Berlin Short Tiger Kurzfilmpreis 2020
Roanne Animation Short Film Festival 2020
Anima Brussels Animation Film Festival 2020
Stuttgart Filmschau Baden-Württemberg 2019
Quebec & Montreal Les Sommets du Cinema d'Animation 2019
Lubljana Animateka International Animated Film Festival 2019
Eat my Shorts Hagener Kurzfilm Festival 2019
Recife Animage - International Animation Festival of Pernambuco 2019
World Festival of Animated Film Varna 2019