MistgriM – Leafrunner

In the image you see a Leafrunner, it is a fast animal that runs on top of the straws in the fields. If you some day happen to be near a big field you can hear it`s whispering sound, some thinks it is the wind and straws that makes it. But we both know that it`s a Leafrunner (Latin name: Bovidae Campanula Rotundifolia), and if you want to see them you have to find out what flower it is named after, because that is what it eat.

I bildet over ser du en Løvspringer, det er et raskt dyr som springer på toppen av grasstrå ute på engene. Så om du en dag skulle være i nærheten av en graseng kan du høre dem som en viskende lyd, noen tror det bare det er vinden som blåser i stråene. Men vi vet at det er en Løvspringer ( Latinsk navn: Bovidae Campanula Rotundifolia ), og om du vil se dem må du finne ut hvilken blomst den har fått navnet sitt fra, for det er hva den spiser.

MistgriM – a close look.

The first of the MistgriM pages has been scanned into the computer using a scanner that has been modified/rebuild to scan large drawings. Every page holds lots of small details. In the two pages you see a detail from here there is more than 30 figures of different kind. All the pages are going to hold this level of detail. I am soon going back to do work on MistgriM after having done illustration work for others.

Bilde over viser et utklipp fra en detalj fra en dobbeltside til MistgriM. Den svarte firkanten med bilde viser hvor stor del detaljen utgjør på en dobbeltside. Alle sidene i MistgriM vil få denne grad av detaljnivå. På jinglepaper.com og torharaldblom.com kan en se mer fra dette billedbok prosjektet, både konsept tegninger, 2 ferdige sider, samt skisser og mer fra “In the Mist” som er satt i samme verden.

In the Mist – making animation background.

In the Mist is a short film that is set in the same world as the picture book MistgriM, but has a different story. Here you see a animation background that is made for it, and the additional images shows how this is going to look with the figure in it. The background is made as one illustration, and then the foreground elements is cut out to place the figure inside. The animation itself will be done like classical cartoon, with hand drawn figures.

If you want to know more about this animation project, then you can take a look at the project pages on Jinglepaper Studio website.

2008

Tor Harald Blom – Jinglepaper Studio in 2008.

Thank you everyone for a great year!

Last year was the most active year so far. There has been different productions going trough the studio, and some is still going. So when we look back, what happed last year.

A cup of TEA – A diary in memory of the forest.
A comic production that went online last year and was online weekly the first half year. It was a weekly comic online about global warming and loss of biodiversity. When this year ended I can sadly inform that we have lost spices of Delphine in China. It has gone into the history, and this along with the other spices makes the world less. It like Jack (Johnny Depp) say in the last Pirates movie “The world is not getting smaller, it is just less in it!” This topic is as important today as yesterday, and will be in the future. The comic will remain online for some time. You can read it on the www.jinglepaper.com website.

“In the Mist” and “MistgriM”
This summer I started the project “In the Mist” that is going to be a short film some time in the future, maybe. But in the process the idea for a children book came out of this. The production of the story and concept has nearly been finished in 2008, and also 8 of the 36 pages is finished. If you want to see images from both pages and concepts, you can go to www.torharaldblom.com.

“P” for Parable Volum 2.
This is a comic made for the comic anthology Parable volum 2. It is a 10 page mystery, it looks like an old document. The first volum will hopefully be out this year. News and info about the Parable project you can find on the Parable website.

Production for others.
- Helene Bøksle, she is well known Norwegian singer, and she is now coming with here second record, that sounds great I made a Flash website and illustration for here music video.
- Jotun AS, paint production company. Illustration for commercial.
- Flekkefjord Kirkelige Fellesråd. The local church in Flekkefjord. Build them a website and helped them to continue it as a news and information site. I also build a database containing the information of all the property that is in the churches. This is part of a national project to document everything for future generations.

It looks like there is going to be several projects coming up in 2009 that will be fun to work on. Among them a TV commercial. Hopefully will the children book MistgriM also be finished this year to.

Flying to Flowerhorn

Come fly to Flowerhorn
where the spring is born,
and where the lazy old
troll has his home.

Come fly to Flowerhorn
and see the snow will be gone,
and the flower once again come
to shine all summer long.

Flowerhorn is one of the places in MistgriM, this is another concept drawing for that story. My inspiration for this story will come from the Norwegian nature, and the folklore that we got. When growing up one of the main inspiration was the work of T. H. Kittelsen, a Norwegian artist who has captured the nature and folklore. I think he might be the one to give the Norwegian Troll the face that is best known today. His art is as good an inspiration today as when they was made.

In the deep forest.

Here is a concept art for MistgriM, it is a look into the deep forest where the strange creatures live. A hidden friendly world we find there. This illustration is part of the exploration of the Mist world before the real work begin.

A cup of TEA – A look into the future. This and next month A cup of TEA will look into the world of tomorrow. How will our life be? What will change? And how will the forest change? This and other questions is something that the comic look into. We base the knowledge on technology that we know is being produced or that is ready to be produced. Hopefully the look into the future also can be inspiration to others.

In the mist – sequence 1.

This is the tittle sequence from In the short film. Here is selected images from the finished animation. It contain the new Jinglepaper intro logo, and the short film tittle. It is made with a mix of watercolors, classical animation on paper and build in Photoshop.

MistgriM

This is the project that is currently in development at Jinglepaper Studio. It is part of the project “In the Mist” and from the same world, and the short film with the same name is slowly in development. More info about MistgriM will come later, and you can follow new updates on the animated short “In the Mist” here on this blog.

P is my story for Parable Anthology 2 that I think will come out next year, it is a 10 page treasure map/old document style comic. So far people has told that it looks strange but good, and I don`t think anyone who has seen it have found the treasure within the document/comic. More info about it will come later some time.

It is spring and feels like summer, so if you want to learn more about how nature works and the big question of our time, then turn over to the A cup of TEA comic for weekly updates.