Hike Comics

Parkour (fr. parkour, distorted from parcours – distance, obstacle course) – discipline, is the rapid overcoming of obstacles.

Production, now our very favorite “Hike”, began with a detailed previs based on a script prepared the agency director’s thoughts on video and their own visual preferences and views about the nature of comics.

In communicating through various means of communication with the agency and the director did everything important to his important findings with regards to what should turn out this 45 second comics, with live actors, performing in the shot difficult youth experiment with risk to life. We discussed the security in the glory of the actors, camera crew, the drivers.

Referring to the previs crew with all the blessings went to Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur. There in the streets against the Twin Tower (which by the way local jokingly referred to as corn) made shooting.

The boys are often called out and written, and even sent photographs and video that we did tests on them. We did different tests and also often called and wrote them.

And then all together met in Kiev and began work-work-work.

By the presentation arrived, some testing images that dispel doubt [suspicion, hesitation, fear, bewilderment shaky] Ben (director) is that the frames will look exactly as would have looked as were shoot in one pass. Edit was approved by the that did not stop us, accompanied by director to improve the commercial until the final delivery date. Director, firmly rested after an exhausting schedule (climate) in Malay was inspired by the opportunity to attend the direct production of computer graphics, the availability of the creative process of making computer graphics and decided to postpone his departure for home. After finishing the technical work on the material, studio indulged perfectionism. That was very fun. First of all understanding of the details of each shot did not have borders. The main pleasure was the introduction of such small (fine), details of which we only know that will make each picture a fair and delicate to the last pixel of each pixel.

Ideas came and appeared, evolved, flowed into one another.

Cars passing by, – who wants speed more quickly, who some motion blur, who refraction, and to whom deep shadows. It was impossible to say definitely at what stage can be achieved perfection limit, but in some moments it seemed that he had already achieved.

Inspecting commercial guys were laughing at different places, but there are places where all laughed together. A peculiar game was the fact that some guys have invested in the details details than amused others and vice versa.

After covering all possible horizontal studio planes (as well as hard drives) with cartoons and illustrations we have had an academic discussion of how interesting and how the tool can be represented by lines, to convey the texture of the paper, a sense of wholeness composition page, move the characters from reality into a comic and back etc.

Time flies when you’re having fun. American idiom director said as the farewell to our studio after midnight.