Snow Bear
In the Arctic, friends are hard to come by.
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Production
Budget
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Box office
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Director
Actors
Alexandra W. Smith
All actors and roles (1)
All actors and roles (1)
Scenario
Producer
Nicholas Burch
Camera operator
Composer
Artist
Vedanta Sproston, Claudia Borbón, Aaron Blaise
Audition
Editing
Short description
When a lonely polar bear can't find a friend... he makes one. Set in a rapidly changing world, "Snow Bear" tells the story of a polar bear in an unforgiving environment on his quest to find a friend. This independently produced 2D hand drawn film was painstakingly created entirely by Aaron Blaise over 3 years.
What's left behind the scenes
- The images in the cartoon are deliberately simplified to give the impression that they were created by a polar bear.
- Over 11,000 drawings were included in the short animated film.
- The film was animated using computer programs that are used by many 2D animators. Aaron Blaise decided that this most closely resembled traditional animation drawn on paper with pencils.
- The idea for the film came to Aaron Blaise 10 years ago, but he only started drawing when he found funding and time. It took him three years to create the film. Blaise was the director, screenwriter, and editor of the project.
- There is practically no sound in the cartoon. Initially, Blaise experimented with using voice-over and sounds that bears might make, but then he chose silence (excluding musical accompaniment and natural ambient sounds), realizing that it would be better to focus on the visuals rather than the audio.
- Initially, it was supposed that in the finale, the polar bear would simply meet a female polar bear, but then Aaron Blaise decided to show snow sculptures made by the cubs.
- Aaron Blaise drew the bear based on other images of polar bears in cinema, and in particular, his involvement in Disney’s animated film 'Brother Bear' (2003). He later said that it was as if 'muscle memory had kicked in'.
- One of the most difficult scenes to animate turned out to be the melting scene, because it was necessary to show how the bear melts and deforms, but in a way that the bear remains recognizable until the very end.
- The Northern Lights were animated using traditional methods – frame by frame, without the use of corresponding computer programs.
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Auditions in India
Casting calls in USA
Castingi w Polsce
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