Jacob Stalhammar

OK, after some 2-3 months of first making the cartoon, submitting the film to festivals, getting it accepted, etc etc... I'm finally finished with the TRAILER PAGES. Everything, the drawings (watercolor+flash+PS), the film, the short trailer and some presentation with links... Please check them out! :D - suggestions and crits welcome.. (one thing I already know is that frames don't work too well with Safari in iPod Touch, still, I kept them, since they work well in so many other browsers)

Merry Christmas! :D

I liked it. It definitely had something, I went back and watched it again and it stayed in my head for a while. That's really good. Wonderful opening shot, good choice of faces. Nice look to it. Great colors. My only critique would be that I found the last "who are you" a bit over the top, and maybe, maybe it's a little bit jumpy continuity-wise. You see the lead from the left, from the right, from the left again. That sort of "restarted" my imagination for each cut, rather than building in the same direction. Still, a really nice piece of work. I'd love to see more.

Thank you so much for your great reply! :D Encouraged by this support I went on and made more films. (I also go "The Five C's of Cinematography" and "Painting w Light" among other books... and started to read American Cinematographer at the library... taking notes when watching rentals, sketching storyboards from videos I liked etc etc... ) Having no decent camera for the moment, and wanting more control, and flow through wilder images than I could possibly afford any other way, I made this animated promo, posted here as well Again, great thanks. I've been coming back and reading this reply quite a few times. You've been most helpful. :)

Having no money for a camera at the moment (and being in the middle of "the Five C's of Cinematography" and really wanting to make more film) I made my first long animation. A promo for a Swedish artist called Emrik. The song is in Swedish, our protagonist voices certain complaints on his share in life. Sort of. "When will he get his great "bonus"". Greatly inspired by Monty Python, gaming and Rathergood. WACOM-collage-work. Animated in Flash 6, more on how to do that here. Cut in FinalCut. Watch here: Less noisy alternative (starts at once though): Krummagumma Or on my homepage. Click "promo" under news on the very first page. Winmedia, and iPod download and all sorts. Stills Storyboard

First I liked that dark look, but after a while it became a bit hard to see stuff... or it might be "the-YouTube-effect"... What more... maybe a tad traditional, but I guess if the band insisted on being shot while playing live, you can only do so much.

Here's the first (I've either shot or edited other people's stuff before) music video I did almost everything on myself (costumes by Ellen Utterström). I filmed, storyboarded, lighted, edited, even made a reflector umbrella of an old real umbrella... and a crude stabilizer . Not something I would recommend, it was seriously hard work. But I guess I learned loads. Please feel free to comment all you like. video page here