La Lettre de l'AFCA

Ahh, yes.

Opportunities come with the residency in Abbaye de Fontevraud!

On 4th and 5th of October we had lectures, meetings, and events with professionals from the field of animation! We also had an interview on 5th of October during the breakfast - you cannot imagine a nicer thing than being interviewed between two bits of croissant at your breakfast table in the middle of a huge hall where everybody's having their breakfast.... But! The guy who made the interview with us, Alexis Shigeru Hunot, had good questions, so it was fun!

After the breakfast we had the opportunity to present our projects to the audience.  I had some pages of my storyboard, some inspirational sketches and some concept designs on my table. And there were lots of people who are interested and asked questions about the story and the technique of The Wild Boar.

Look! Who would have thought?! The wonderful Michael Dudok de Wit and Robert Bennett is looking at my stuff! No wonder I'm smiling!

Photo: Olivier Catherin

Also, there's an interview in the La Lettre de l'AFCA with the residents of Abbaye de Fontevraud 2013!
Check my funny answers about the Star Wars and the 101 Dalmatians and some other important things (I'm afraid the title was given because of me...).

Enjoy!

Je vis dans un château comme un princesse

Ok, The Wild Boar is in a late (but only with the blog, only with the blog!) - please forgive me, but there are so many things going on at the moment!

Definitely it's a really exciting period of the making of the film :)

So, what happened?

Approximately one year ago I applied for a residency in the beautiful and amazing place of Abbaye de Fontevraud - and this year at springtime I got a mail, that I was selected for the 1 month residency!

I was totally honored  - there were more than 100 applications, and they only took 10 people out of that 100 - and 1 was my little Wild Boar, and me!

So I arrived on the first day of October, and I spend the whole month here, working on the animatic of The Wild Boar. I have to say that this place is a perfect place for work - it's beautiful, calm, and as much isolated as it should be. It's unbelievable to work and live in a building which is more than 900 years old, and where Richard I. the Lionheart's body was buried!

I tell myself each and every day how blessed I am to be here.

Also the 8 artists who I spend this month here (yes, you read it right - unfortunately the croatian guy, Velko wasn't able to come) are really inspiring people with outstanding works!

You can check:

And some pictures of the the Abbaye: