By Jessica, on April 13th, 2012%
Kickstarter, if you’re not familiar with it, is a crowd funding website for creative projects. We have given ourselves until May 11th at 2:24pm to reach our goal of $38,000, the bare minimum needed to finish the film and get it out into the world.
Everyone who makes a contribution to Aatsinki will receive a great reward, ranging from an Arctic Cowboys temporary tattoo to a vacation in Finland, depending on the amount of the donation. The catch, however, is that Kickstarter will only collect these donations if our goal is met. Otherwise, none of the crowd’s generous pledges will be fulfilled and none of our rewards will be distributed.
We need your help! Please pledge your support now!
By Jessica, on March 14th, 2012%
After much consideration and deliberation, I’ve changed the name of my reindeer movie.
Pipe Fire is now, officially, Aatsinki.
With the subtitle: The Story of Arctic Cowboys.
The main characters, Aarne and Lasse Aatsinki, are part of a long lineage of Aatsinkis that have lived and herded in that part of Finnish Lapland. Such a long lineage, in fact, that Aatsinki is also the name of the town in which they live.
In honor of the new title, we’ve updated the site a bit. And moved it to a new domain: www.arcticcowboys.com.
Let us know what you think!
And just in case you’re wondering, things are moving forward on the film. Lots of news coming soon.
By Jessica, on March 8th, 2012%
My ideaphoria got the best of me and I had to start something new. It’s a series of short animations about the history of language called Mysteries of Vernacular.
Check it out at mysteriesofvernacular.com.
 Behind the Scenes
By Jessica, on February 24th, 2012%
New elves join the ranks!
Sam Colon on the left and Alex Bader on the right. (And trusty Anthony there in the middle.)
They are all busy busy busy prepping illustrations for the very beginnings of our fairy tale animation for The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga!
By Jessica, on November 9th, 2011%
Congratulations to Maiko on her world premiere. Wish I could have been in Copenhagen!
This looks like a great review in one of Copenhagen’s leading papers, though I can’t be sure…
The word “Ultracool” has to mean the same in every language, right?
 A still from Kuichisan
By Jessica, on November 2nd, 2011%
The team behind the animated fairy tale portion of my film, The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga, is growing. Michelle Enemark as animator and Devin Dobrowolski as illustrator are both incredibly talented artists that I am so excited to be working with.
This week Michelle, Rachael and I all convened at Devin’s studio to map out the animation. We have spent several intense days planning, testing, and story-boarding the story from start to finish.
I’m posting a few pictures of us at work, but tune-in tomorrow for some sneak-peaks of Devin’s sketches.
 Devin and Jessica discuss layout  Michelle running tests on layers and images  Rachael annotates the fairy tale narration  Devin is assisted by our intern Noreen who joined us for a few hours today
By Jessica, on November 1st, 2011%
So proud to announce that the film I co-produced, Kuichisan, will be premiering at CPH:DOX in just a few short weeks.
The director, Maiko Endo, will be there in person with a good portion of the cast and crew including Raizo Ishihara, Eleonore Hendricks and cinematographer, Sean Price Williams.
So disappointed I can’t be there. But if anyone happens to be in Copenhagen the second week of November, I urge you to check it out. The CPH:DOX programmers are calling it “the discovery of the year.”
By Jessica, on October 13th, 2011%
My good friend (and producer on Beetle Queen) Maiko Endo was just awarded a Cinereach grant for her film Kuichisan that we have been producing together. (Also shot by Sean Price Williams.)
Cinereach. Is. Awesome.
And so is Maiko’s movie.
 A still from Kuichisan
By Jessica, on September 1st, 2011%
Our newest intern, Eli Mellen, is a graduate student at College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine. Given his current research in narrative geography and his background in documentary film, animation, and literature, we knew right away he would be a valuable addition to the team. Eli will be posting some stimulating blog entries, so stay tuned. Welcome, Eli!
And back for another year of blissful hard work, Anthony Svatek has been promoted from intern to, well, something else. Though we don’t yet have a label for him, he covers all sorts of territory for Myriapod and we are pleased as punch to have him back in the office. Anthony is an undergrad at Tisch Film School and is currently working on a short documentary about about village life in Guatemalan highlands. Welcome back, Anthony!
By Jessica, on August 19th, 2011%
Just a quick note to say that we are changing things up a little bit. So don’t be shocked by the GIANT photos that we will be posting from now on.
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