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January 4, 2008
A Word From Professor Ichbonnsen
by sven at 2:52 pm
I just finished a short-short new film: "A Word From Professor Ichbonnsen."
This was a submission for the StopMoShorts.com quarterly Stopmo Haiku Challenge. The challenge is that SMS provides four keywords -- in this case realm, swap, alley, and rose -- and you have to make a short film that works in one or more of them. I chose to go with the word "realm."
The deadline was Dec. 31... And I managed to get my project uploaded a good 40 minutes before midnight. ;-) At SMS, "A Word From Professor Ichbonnsen" (AKA the Monster Month TV Ad) can be viewed here.
I feel I should explain that this project didn't start out as a commercial. Toward the end of December I had already fabricated the set and the puppet version of Ichbonnsen (no, that's not the man himself!)... I wanted to shoot a quick gag about the Professor encountering the creature from the book cover -- but ran out of time for constructing a decent monster puppet.
I was contemplating giving up on doing a short -- when it occurred to me that it would be funny to see Ichbonnsen holding a miniature copy of the book, waving it around. The book prop was much easier to make... So I went with it.
To me, the film stands on its own. The fact that there actually IS a Monster Month book for sale simply deepens the pleasure of the fantasy world.
posted by sven | January 4, 2008 2:52 PM | comments (3) | categories: bestiary, stopmo
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wait . . . are you implying that the Professor is a FANTASY?!
Posted by: bansheegrrll at January 6, 2008 12:38 AM
Hi, Sven.
I was WONDERING who made that film! I loved every bit of it, the limb posing, timing, lip sync... Your work has really been improving at lightening speed! Congrats on the gig at Bent, too. Color me green with envy!! :P
Posted by: Pram at January 6, 2008 1:01 PM
That's AWFULLY cool....
Posted by: michael5000 at January 6, 2008 7:56 PM